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gitpay / website

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Observed mentions: 2016-12-26 17:43:38 UTC to 2020-11-09 10:22:00 UTC.

0123452016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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Here's my own research: https://gitpay.me Doesn't appear to be too popular: "We paid $2547 USD in bounties". And no wonder it's not popular: https://github.com/gitpay/website/pull/4 https://issuehunt.io The docs are pretty thin, so it's not clear if it's possible for devs to attach a price to feature requests themselves. It seems to be a side project of the people that make Boost Note. The top project has gotten $7,858.50, but it's actually their own project BoostIO/Boostnote. I get that "we made it for us, but you can use it too" vibe from their site, which may be why there doesn't seem to be much ongoing effort to promote the service. https://www.bountysource.com It looks like there are red flags around Bountysource: https://blog.elementary.io/goodbye-bountysource-hello-github... "If no Solution is accepted within two years after a Boun
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ty is posted, then the Bounty will be withdrawn and the amount posted for the Bounty will be retained by Bountysource." "In December, 2017, Bountysource was acquired by a cryptocurrency company called CanYa who redesigned the Bountysource site and service with a new cryptocoin focus."
In Ask HN: Requesting Payment for Feature Requests in Github
> This topic could have been easily brought up after the holidays... but why wait? It's a topic to be discussed. The way you're going about this entire conversation is simply too much. It sounds like you've reached out to multiple personal emails, created multiple issues, responded to those issues asking for updates, and brought the issue to social media in less than a day. During the holidays. That's overwhelming and doesn't put the devs on your side. As others have mentioned, even if you're right, you really need to give the devs some time to think through the alternatives, consider your argument, come up with a solution, and implement it. This takes some time. Removing information from a database may not seem hard to you, but you don't maintain the service. Sending a pull request is fine, but maintainers don't blindly merge anything. T
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hey have to review it, make sure it's the policy, quality of code, etc. that they want in the product, merge it, and deploy to prod after possibly testing everything. Give it time (not measured in hours) and work with the developers. Edit: This is exactly why maintainers don't blindly accept pull requests: https://github.com/gitpay/website/pull/4#pullrequestreview-1...
In Ask HN: Is personal GitHub information public domain?
hnysacct·Dec 26, 2016Submission

Gitpay creates an account for you without your knowledge

Gitpay scrapes github accounts and creates an account for you without your knowledge. You also have no way in managing your account details or delete your account. I've discovered this when an alert came that my name has come up in a Google search. I noticed that I had an "inactive" account on gitpay. There was a "sign in with Github" link, which I figured if I activated my account, I would have the ability to delete my account so I can purge this record. The problem is, there is no way to do this since after you OATH with github, the site says "account management is coming soon" This is not cool in my opinion for 2 reasons: 1) No service should create a profile (active or non-active) without your knowledge or consent 2) There should be a way for you to delete your own account. The fact that this service is live and doesn't have account m
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anagement features... that's just absurd. How can one feel that it's appropriate to ship a service that has no such features? It also turns out that all of my colleagues and github followers also have "inactive" accounts with gitpay and they never knew they had those. I've attempted to contact who I believe is behind gitpay to no avail... so I decided to post a pull request for the feature to delete accounts. It's not the most elegant code, but it's a start that will at least allow me to delete my own account. https://github.com/gitpay/website/pull/4
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