Watercooler - May 2016

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This is Liberapay's monthly "what's up?" thread. Previous: #28.

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Auteurs et autrices libres, indépendant·es et solidaires : manifeste pour une alternative

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CloudFlare stats:

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Announcing Flattr Plus

It’s will be an add-on for your browser which will automate your flattrs for you, as well as removing the need of implementation of the system for the publishers. Instead of a one-click to flattr someone, the systems goal is to fully automate the flattrs – zero click payments if you like. All based on your engagement with the content.

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I'll be in Lille on May 22nd & 23rd (see gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#464 for details).

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About the event in Lille: Temps fort ROUMICS 2016 : Expérimenter les modèles de rétributions - ANIS.

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I'm inviting https://liberapay.com/deivid/ to the Liberapay team for his work on the Spanish translation.

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Another controversial person has asked his audience to support him on Liberapay, I'm expecting more of liberapay/liberapay.org#11.

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We have 2 weeks left before the event in Lille. I guess the first priority is liberapay/liberapay.com#287. An important second matter is Liberapay's visual design, it would be great if we had a new visual identity to show off, but that's a lot of work.

Today I'm working on liberapay/liberapay.com#45 for reasons unrelated to the Lille event.

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I'm inviting https://liberapay.com/KindlyFire/ (@kindlyfire) to the Liberapay team for his contributions to the Dutch translation.

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Flattr Plus in the media

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CloudFlare stats:

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I'm inviting https://liberapay.com/Evild67/ (@Evild67) to the Liberapay team for his work on the German translation.

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How Gratipay transformed hiring and compensation for open organizations | Opensource.com

Want the best employees? Let them hire themselves

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I'm seeing a few failed payins with the error message 101303: Secure mode: The card is not compatible with 3DSecure. That's one more reason to add other payment methods.

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I've invited https://liberapay.com/nijel/ to the Liberapay team, he started a Czech translation.

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I've added the subdomains for Czech and Hungarian in CloudFlare and OpenShift.

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A popular controversial website added a Liberapay widget yesterday. I quickly noticed the increased traffic and decided to raise the HTTP caching time (liberapay/liberapay.com@d1f39fd), so that CloudFlare could absorb the additional traffic. Here's the result:

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A New Way to Fund Open Source Projects — Open Collective

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Weekly CloudFlare stats:

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Quote of #36 (comment):

We have 2 weeks left before the event in Lille. I guess the first priority is liberapay/liberapay.com#287. An important second matter is Liberapay's visual design, it would be great if we had a new visual identity to show off, but that's a lot of work.

Today I'm working on liberapay/liberapay.com#45 for reasons unrelated to the Lille event.

Well, we've managed to take care of all three just in time! \o/

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I'm back from Lille. It was a great event! I'm going to try to write down the gist of what was said.

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Since I was offline yesterday I didn't post the weekly CloudFlare stats, here's a screenshot from today:

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We can now easily add tables in our emails without them looking bad in text mode. Alir3z4/html2text#130

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Blog post draft: A new platform to fund work on open source projects

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The aforementioned blog post is scheduled for publication today. Does anyone think we should postpone?

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It's published: https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/a-new-platform-to-fund-work-on-open-source-projects-a97fac218cc7

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CloudFlare stats are pretty much the same as last week. Here's the traffic origin table:

What it tells us is that the readers of the controversial blogger who started using Liberapay this month are mostly from the US and UK. That's not very interesting.