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>Microdonation platforms like flattr fail to gain any traction

What about Wikipedia?

I run my website in this fashion.

Patreon also works great for some sites (and not at all for some others).

To be honest, I don't particularly like Wikipedia's huge banners with pleas to get the last few millions in donations. If every site did that users were as annoyed as they are by regular ads.

A donation model might be the best thing to do, we just have to find the best way to implement it.

Is that annoyance worse than being blocked from the page?

EDIT: serious question, because if it is, I can restrict content on my website.

It can be, especially if everyone starts doing it--as is increasingly the case. At some point, I'm fine with just doing without sites that have a hard paywall whereas having all, or at least many/most, sites annoy me for donations/subscriptions degrades using the Internet as a whole.

I used to feel guilty about the Wikipedia donation banner, but so much of that spending seems to go elsewhere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

Was wikipedia really 3.5x more expensive to host in 2016 than 2010? Why? (Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287235 )

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