My opinion: I do not want to get paid to develop mbin. That creates an obligation and turns it into something like a job. I already have a job and intend to keep it, additionally I don't want to take the fun out of developing mbin. To commit to it full time or apply for grants or anything would currently be a big mistake I think

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I do not want to get paid to develop mbin.

In couple of years you will burn out doing this for free. Not getting paid opens up the project for another Jia Tan to come along and smuggle malware.

There was recent talk by Rockstar Programmer Dylan Beattie that highlighted this problem. His website https://freeasinweekend.org/ and YT talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzYqxo13I1U

You don't need to go 100% job or 100% mbin. You could theoretically go for less hours (like Fridays off) to work on mbin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Maybe in the future. Currently so few people are using mbin that I doubt it would be any substantial amount. It also creates a lot more work when doing your taxes. So yeah if mbin gets a user base like lemmy currently has this would be another story. But it does not and it does not look like we will be there any time soon

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't think there is a way to donate (monetarily) directly to Mbin, at least not at the moment.

The second best thing might would be to donate to server admins, which a lot of them actually are Mbin developers anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

depends on what kind of contribution you would like to make. i think they're mostly looking for development, testing and documentation help.

there are some great links from the main github; https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin including the matrix channels