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Newsletters Archive

Catch up with DonationCoder by browsing our past newsletters, which collect the most interesting discussions on our site: here.

But Not Everyone Agrees
As for the donation part: Someone is more likely to get LESS donations by nagging people to do so. I wouldn't have donated to the author of Irfanview if he had the same policy as the people from FindRun Robot. You want cash ? Go payware. You want donations ? Make yourself appreciated.

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A.M.

We occasionally write articles on the site:

When Do Users Donate (2006)
An in-depth early article discussing the first year of DonationCoder, and reviewing our use of micro-donations; we were one of the first sites to try it and one of the few remaining sites employing such a model.
DonationCoder Infrastructure Remodel (2018)
An article discussing some major changes to our website and server infrastructure in 2018 (and the years leading up to it). Goes into the content management systems we chose and server hosting choices, etc.