We devs have never met in person, and we are too shy to publicly share our pictures :D

Not sure about the question mark, but the icons are a great idea! Here is how they look with different colored buttons:

That is true, but not so easy to do. To make donation pages like those in your link would require setting up some kind of nonprofit and directly handling credit card payments with some payment processor, and probably various legal requirements. By relying on existing donation platforms we have much less hassle.

Not sure what you mean, I can see these without login:

Right, I removed the asterisk and added a dotted underline instead to indicate hover text. The text with 4 months left is an old leftover, Ive removed it. Also made the text bigger and changed the button layout (though it looks too green now).

It seems difficult to explain these in such a short text. However I will make a similar post soon to improve the donation page on join-lemmy.org, maybe it could be included there as it has more space available.

That is true. You might see it if you use the default web interface once in a while, or app devs could also implement this feature. Anyway its better than nothing.

I can do black, that does actually seem a bit better.

This sounds very good, I used it with a few changes:

cc @morrowind@lemmy.ml @x00z@lemmy.world

Youre right.

No that would be too annoying.

I was testing a new feature for Lemmy 1.0, native binary releases in addition to Docker. Sorry if it spammed your notifications, should have marked them as draft or prerelease.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5583

Actually thats true. Gonna remove that button for now, we can still add it back later if there are too many complaints.

The dialog can also be translated using weblate (although thats not currently setup for 0.19 backports).

And the dialog cant be linked from other places. In any case we can still make changes after this is released based on feedback.

You mean to add donation links for the instance? That makes sense, but I fear that it would be too complicated for users. Admins already have many ways to put donation links eg in the sidebar and sticky posts, but for developers theres only a small button at the top which is easy to miss. And our donations have gone down a lot, now only 2400 Euro per month.

Thanks for the suggestions. I changed the first sentence to “Lemmy is an open source project developed by volunteers and provided for free”, and changed the hide button text:

Edit: Also shortened the title so it fits in a single line:

Orange is actually the primary color in the theme, although green (secondary color) is used much more.

Thanks, changed the link.

Edit: Nope that broke the thumbnail, uploaded it to Lemmy directly now.

Works correctly for me. Are you using an app?

That would mean hiring someone, which requires initial funding like a bank loan. It is also necessary to get the funding and skill to setup a website, automate the hosting and most importantly run a marketing campaign. Otherwise no one will know about the service nor use it. So it requires setting up a whole business, do you know how to do that?