ALTUI has become successful over time but is also now becoming a little bit a victim of its success. I am the first culprit of that It has become a huge project, more than 15000+ lines of javascript, 2000+ of lua and growing and it is now approaching a formal version 1.0.
However with all that activity, it is getting quite time consuming to maintain and evolve. For V1.0 , I want to maintain its freeware status open to volunteering contributions, but I propose to start reminding the user a little bit more explicitely in the user interface that a small yearly contribution would be appreciated. Nothing major, maybe some color & messages in the footer for instance so that if you do not want to contribute you can still use it.
What I propose to do in V1 is :
[ul][li]give a lifetime grant for those who contributed code or helped debug like dklinkman, akbooer, vosmont[/li]
[li]give a full year grant to those who already contributed and 2 years for the bigger contributions[/li]
[li]for all other users, Display a reminder message that will disappear for a one year duration if you contribute to ALTUI[/li][/ul]
I hope most will agree with me that this is a fair enough approach.
Preparation
[ul][li]if you contributed via paypal already, please send me a PM with your name and your user pseudo ( it is displayed in the footer of ALTUI v:972 ). I will already try to build that list but paypal is not giving me the pseudo names.[/li]
[li]Once v1.0 is deployed , if you think you erroneously see the message, please same, send me a PM with your name and your user pseudo displayed in the footer[/li][/ul]
Fair enough and then some in my opinion. AltUI is an epic achievement and I doubt anyone who has discovered it and is using it would think any different. Your responsiveness to questions, suggestions, problems, etc. is second to none.
I can’t believe more people haven’t commented. I think this is totally fair and thank you as well as the others for helping bring this to the level it’s at.
I think it sounds fair. amg0 has worked very hard to produce this excellent interface as well as the fabulous support. He should get back after all he gave.
Just a minor bug for me… I am indeed identified as “registered” when accessing AltUI locally, but not when using remote access (though my username is properly identified). No big deal since the “donate” section on the home screen is still fairly innocuous, but if @amg0 decides to make it a bit more intrusive, would nice to fix beforehand
In remote access, for security reasons, neither the meteo, nor the update check nor the user check can work. So I just leave it with a vanilla footer that does not say registered or not, and I do not take any specific actions either way.
It has become a huge project, more than 15000+ lines of javascript, 2000+ of lua and growing and it is now approaching a formal version 1.0.