95% of my donations to various things are lump sums as I've proven prone to losing track of subscriptions, so it's good to retain the option (as GNOME has). It can also be a lot simpler to make one-off donations as a company for accounting reasons.
This may look fine when it's one sub.
But then you're spending hundreds of €$£ a month on stuff and need to go through a list of dozens of things to figure out which you should continue paying for.
So no. I will continue to donate randomly to stuff, and limit subscriptions to a handful I can mentally keep track of. I'm sorry.
PS: I like, and very much respect, how Kagi handles subscriptions. Not gonna work for donations, but I wish more services handled things that way.
gedit: https://ibb.co/35fwpwBq
gnome-text-edit: https://ibb.co/CKZ9FdYc
For a long time now I've wanted to build a donation subscription management service. A sort of "Set how much you want to donate a month and allocate it to charities of your choice". Tools to let you do %, flat $, "whatever isn't allocated, allocate to this charity", etc. And things like an easy way to re-route your giving to a crisis for a period of time (one-time, x-months, ongoing).
Most non-profits have really rough donation portals (UI/UX) and having to log into 5-10+ portals to manage your giving is annoying. Also, I think a number of people are overwhelmed by giving, as in they don't know where to start. Giving them an easy way to manage it in 1 place and protecting them from getting spammed (unless they opt-in to get "updates") seems like a win.
For this I use privacy.com, to give each 'vendor' its own unique credit card number, with a monthly/annual/lifetime limit. I can review all my recent expenses and open cards, and close or pause them whenever I like. This system just caught an 8% price increase by my ISP, which meant it was rejected before I was charged, and I was able to call and negotiate it down (20%!).
Not affiliated with privacy.com, just a happy customer. I give up my credit card points on subscriptions, in exchange for peace of mind and finer-grained control over my finances.
I always imagined non-profits would be easier since they just want the money, they don't /need/ to know who gave it for purposes of providing services. Maybe they want it for records/marketing but some of that I'm not a fan of. Just because I gave/give you $5/mo you don't have a right to sell my info or spam me with other things. This service (that I'm imagining in my head) would not hand over more info than needed, giving you a firewall between you and the charity. Easy to give, easy to stop giving, no spam, no guilt trip, no selling of your info. At least that would be the goal.
abnercoimbre•7mo ago