I can and do judge when I see people on here running servers and giving away software for free, and then posting publicly about how much they’re spending on it. It’s good to be charitable. But it’s also good to be forthright with others when something is becoming too much to support without support/donations/revenue, whatever the appropriate funding may be. I don’t care how much anyone spends on something nobody asked them to do. But if I like what you’re producing, then I’ll donate or even pay toward my use of it. People on here need to be up front about that instead of trying to make others feel sympathy for them for something they chose to do on their own.

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Particularly if they’re a BTC OG. If you’re sitting on hundreds or thousands of BTC you owe it to the community to do the work and STFU about it. They’re pumping your own bags either way.
I add a donate page to everything I make. I haven’t made a subscription service yet because I haven’t seen anything get a lot of traction yet. If something I make gets used enough then I would transition to paid or a freemium model of some sort.