Donations for Authors

[Cairenn]

Authors spend countless hours developing, debugging, and supporting their addons. WoWInterface supports these authors' contributions to the community, and has provided them with another visible way to receive some form of benefit for these contributions.

Now in addition to allowing authors to show a donation link on their file description page, we have created a donation overlay that will show any time someone downloads an addon on which the author has enabled donation requests. Authors have the ability to turn on this overlay when they update their AddOns. As well, we also now support Pledgie donation links in addition to PayPal. More infomation about how to set up PayPal or Pledgie for use with our overlay or your file description is in our Author Donation FAQ.

In no way should you feel pressured to donate to an author, however, should you wish to show your support for the time which they have invested, feel free to do so. There is an option to turn off the overlay notices if you wish not to see them. More information about enabling and disabling your ability to see them is in our User Donation FAQ.

Also, please note that when our new updater is ready, we will be coming up with a way to have donation links for authors available on it as well.

Thank you to Tekkub for his assistance in providing the information on how to set up a Pledgie account.

[Torhal]

Kudos to the WoWI team!

[Cralor]

Awesome! Still needs some debugging / fixing, though. But the idea is wonderful! Great job!!

[Cairenn]

Originally Posted by Cralor Awesome! Still needs some debugging / fixing, though. But the idea is wonderful! Great job!!

Post any bugs you find in it in the Site Bugs forum, please.

[Yhor]

Originally Posted by Cairenn Thank you to Tekkub for his assistance in providing the information on how to set up a Pledgie account.

Would it be possible to get a minimal 'user tutorial' as well? I've used Pledgie a couple times, and had no issue with it, save one. I normally have to reload pages because I'm a paranoid nutjob and my settings don't get saved (namely, donating anonymously). Although, it would be a good incentive for the users to actually be able to "show their support". I just get wierded out if I visit a website and still see my name (username) still there from the last time I made a donation. Yeah, I really am a nutjob .

To the rest of the new features, and the support you all here are giving the authors in defense of their rights, I applaud you in being a class act.

[Tekkub]

Originally Posted by Yhor Yeah, I really am a nutjob .

Yea I don't want you nutmoney. I will, however, gladly accept your nutbutter.

I'll see if I can get a lil FAQ tossed together later tonight that san be added to the dialog box. But first, I need to get all my addon donation settings set up.

Ah thank god I know how to write scripts, that'd take forever without one.

[Tristanian]

Despite the fact that I don't even bother with donations, this is...tempting. Good job guys...and gals .

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Authors spend countless hours developing, debugging, and supporting their addons. WoWInterface supports these authors' contributions to the community, and has provided them with another visible way to receive some form of benefit for these contributions.

In no way should you feel pressured to donate to an author, however, should you wish to show your support for the time which they have invested, feel free to do so.

How can you not feel a bit of pressure?


This is not a for/against donations discussions. I think authors do a great job and deserve it, it's only to show my primary reaction to how i see/read it.


It's a bit like in game adds:

WTS [Enchanting] free your mats, tips are welcome

So yes i do feel pressured even though you say i shouldn't.

[Cladhaire]

Originally Posted by Fuzzywuzzy How can you not feel a bit of pressure? This is not a for/against donations discussions. I think authors do a great job and deserve it, it's only to show my primary reaction to how i see/read it. It's a bit like in game adds: WTS [Enchanting] free your mats, tips are welcome So yes i do feel pressured even though you say i shouldn't.

No offense mate but this isn't the same thing, and any pressure you are feeling is your own.. nothing any of us can help with.