Feature #12486

Consider dropping flattr versus making it more prominent on our website

Added by sajolida 2017-04-27 10:07:44 . Updated 2018-10-01 13:29:39 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Fundraising
Target version:
Tails_3.9.1
Start date:
2017-04-27
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Feature Branch:
web/12486-flattr-to-sidebar
Type of work:
Website
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Deliverable for:

Description

That’s a possible conclusion from Feature #11298. Note that we shouldn’t spend a lot of time on this seeing the quantity of revenues that we get from Flattr (8.60€/month currently).

U: What do you think? Could this be a worthwhile discussion for a monthly meeting?

Files

flattr.png (85615 B) sajolida, 2018-09-18 22:31:44

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #10186: Let people know about our Flattr account Rejected 2015-09-13
Related to Tails - Feature #10672: Consider turning our Flattr account into a charity one Rejected 2015-11-26
Related to Tails - Bug #10212: Get a "no-fee" status on Flattr Duplicate 2015-09-17
Related to Tails - Feature #15961: Remove Flattr from our website Resolved 2018-09-18

History

#1 Updated by Anonymous 2017-04-27 10:47:32

Thanks for bringing this up.

I think that Flattr is not really well adopted outside of german speaking countries.

Furthermore, it seems that the company has just been bought by Eyeo, the company developing AdblockPlus in Cologne. They plan to integrate Flattr into Adblock Plus. While blocking advertisements, except for those being integrated on a whitelist (upon payment), this should still allow to see which websites a user visited, and make automatic payments.. Kind of interesting income model. (Source: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Adblock-Anbieter-Eyeo-uebernimmt-Online-Bezahldienst-Flattr-3675942.html and http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/adblock-plus-eyeo-uebernimmt-flattr-a-1142156.html) I personally doubt this will work. The first article also states that most people did not get a lot of revenue out of flattr. But Wikipedia says that there are some exceptions during the beginnings (2010-2012).

So, I wonder, instead of putting a flattr button on pages, we might want to decide instead to drop flattr entirely - or keep using it the way we currently do.

Let’s discuss that :)

#2 Updated by emmapeel 2017-05-25 08:12:42

  • Status changed from New to Confirmed

#3 Updated by Anonymous 2017-05-31 09:40:30

  • Assignee set to sajolida

See my comment.

#4 Updated by Anonymous 2017-06-28 14:07:12

  • Subject changed from Try to put a Flattr button on pages with more views to Consider dropping flattr

Putting this again on the agenda of the monthly meeting.

The initial proposal from sajolida was: “Try to put a Flattr button on pages with more views” with description “That’s a possible conclusion from Feature #11298. Note that we shouldn’t spend a lot of time on this seeing the quantity of revenues that we get from Flattr (8.60€/month currently).”

#5 Updated by Anonymous 2017-06-28 14:07:31

  • Subject changed from Consider dropping flattr to Consider dropping flattr versus making it more prominent on our website

#6 Updated by Anonymous 2017-06-28 14:08:56

  • related to Bug #10186: Let people know about our Flattr account added

#7 Updated by Anonymous 2017-06-28 14:09:36

  • related to Feature #10672: Consider turning our Flattr account into a charity one added

#8 Updated by Anonymous 2017-06-28 14:10:49

  • related to Bug #10212: Get a "no-fee" status on Flattr added

#9 Updated by intrigeri 2017-07-05 17:05:02

  • Priority changed from Low to Normal
  • Type of work changed from Discuss to Website

During https://tails.boum.org/contribute/meetings/201707/ “We decided to try out adding the Flattr button in the sidebar of our website for three months, and if it does not work, we’ll drop it. sajolida will implement this.”

#10 Updated by sajolida 2018-06-04 12:56:19

  • Target version set to Tails_3.8

Doing this before the donation campaign would mean doing it now-ish.

#11 Updated by Anonymous 2018-06-04 19:58:35

If you’re still up for this, I can review your work.

#12 Updated by sajolida 2018-06-26 10:52:27

  • Assignee changed from sajolida to intrigeri
  • QA Check set to Ready for QA
  • Feature Branch set to web/12486-flattr-to-sidebar

Here is a branch.

If you find time to review this before the release it can save us a full rebuild on the website. Otherwise please reassign it to u.

Today our balance is:

  • 191.58€
  • $47.63

#13 Updated by intrigeri 2018-06-26 11:32:46

I was going to write “please copy the translations from wiki/src/donate.*.po” but most of them are wrong or non-existing. Code review passes.

#14 Updated by intrigeri 2018-06-26 11:35:38

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Fix committed
  • Assignee deleted (intrigeri)
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
  • QA Check changed from Ready for QA to Pass

I don’t find the layout pretty, but let’s say it’ll be good enough for this 3 months experiment (and won’t taint the experiment results too much). Merged into web/release-3.8, will go live at the same time as the release!

#15 Updated by intrigeri 2018-06-26 16:25:32

  • Status changed from Fix committed to Resolved

#16 Updated by sajolida 2018-07-02 18:42:32

  • Status changed from Resolved to In Progress
  • Assignee set to sajolida
  • Target version changed from Tails_3.8 to Tails_3.10.1
  • QA Check deleted (Pass)

I’ll evaluate how much we got from that in 3 months → ~ 3.10.

#17 Updated by sajolida 2018-09-06 09:24:06

Let’s do this as part of the preparation of the donation campaign so we take a decision to either keep it or remove it completely.

#18 Updated by sajolida 2018-09-18 22:31:53

  • File flattr.png added
  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
  • Assignee deleted (sajolida)

Almost 3 months later, I logged into Flattr today. The results are ridiculous: we’ve been slowly receiving less and less donations through Flattr (between 5 and 8 until September 2017) but none since we put their button on all our web pages with c4a8f60470.

Bye bye Flattr!

#19 Updated by sajolida 2018-09-18 22:32:38

#20 Updated by intrigeri 2018-10-01 13:29:39

  • Target version changed from Tails_3.10.1 to Tails_3.9.1