Now that's what I call an effective fundraising campaign. Indeed, small monthly donors feel more stable than large, one-off checks (even if, in theory, the latter is larger than the former.)

The argument is totally sound for comparing lump sum versus regular donations, but if the option comes down to $200 lump sum vs nothing, the lump sum wins.

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.

Same logic applies to all subscriptions.

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.

How can I donate to the KDE desktop project? Gnome's UI has no sense to it at all. Look at gedit, it has three menus including one hamburger menu. Just do a menu bar, people!