Make voluntary support visible, without letting the application ever ask #79

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opened 2026-09-07 10:54:02 +00:00 by tiagoagueda · 0 comments

tiagoagueda commented

2026-09-07 10:54:02 +00:00

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Observation

also make the "buymeacofee" more visible like using the approved banners — after all is my
ONLY income

What exists today

One sentence, in the middle of the README's Never paywalled section:

The project's only source of income is voluntary support at buymeacoffee.com/tiagoagueda.

Nothing in the wiki at all. Nothing on the GitHub mirror's repository page. For something
that is not the main source of income but the only one, that is close to invisible.

Shape

Buy Me a Coffee's own button, not a hand-made badge, in the README under the title,
on the wiki's opening page, and in the sidebar that every wiki page carries.
.github/FUNDING.yml, so the mirror shows GitHub's Sponsor button. It is not a workflow,
so it costs nothing in CI minutes.
The button image is served from this repository, not hotlinked. The approved asset, a
copy of it. Hotlinking would make a third-party request of everybody who merely looks at
the page, and this project tells operators it fetches nothing they did not ask for; the
documentation should not do what the application refuses to.

What does not change

Nothing inside Postulo asks for money. No banner in the interface, no prompt, no
reminder on the dashboard, ever. The README has promised that in as many words since the
first release, and making the ask more visible must not quietly walk it back — so asking
stays confined to the places somebody has to come looking, and the promise is restated
beside the button every time it appears.

It also says what to give instead, because for a great many people looking for work money is
the wrong thing to be asked for: a bug report, a translation reviewed by somebody who
actually speaks the language, or telling one person who needs this that it exists.

Classification

Documentation.

## Observation > also make the "buymeacofee" more visible like using the approved banners — after all is my > ONLY income ## What exists today One sentence, in the middle of the README's *Never paywalled* section: > The project's only source of income is voluntary support at buymeacoffee.com/tiagoagueda. Nothing in the wiki at all. Nothing on the GitHub mirror's repository page. For something that is not the main source of income but the *only* one, that is close to invisible. ## Shape - Buy Me a Coffee's **own button**, not a hand-made badge, in the README under the title, on the wiki's opening page, and in the sidebar that every wiki page carries. - `.github/FUNDING.yml`, so the mirror shows GitHub's Sponsor button. It is not a workflow, so it costs nothing in CI minutes. - **The button image is served from this repository, not hotlinked.** The approved asset, a copy of it. Hotlinking would make a third-party request of everybody who merely looks at the page, and this project tells operators it fetches nothing they did not ask for; the documentation should not do what the application refuses to. ## What does not change **Nothing inside Postulo asks for money.** No banner in the interface, no prompt, no reminder on the dashboard, ever. The README has promised that in as many words since the first release, and making the ask more visible must not quietly walk it back — so asking stays confined to the places somebody has to come looking, and the promise is restated beside the button every time it appears. It also says what to give instead, because for a great many people looking for work money is the wrong thing to be asked for: a bug report, a translation reviewed by somebody who actually speaks the language, or telling one person who needs this that it exists. ## Classification Documentation.

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Show the thing that pays for this, and keep it out of the application

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