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For additional hilarity: This bug was introduced because it displays a banner asking for donations.

People complained that the dontation message was being shown too often. So they made it ask on mondays only.

A problem with OSS funding, not surprised. If only 1% of all the productivity lost with this bug was donated to Webpack, they would probably not need to ask for money at all. But the market doesn't work that way, so it's just a sad reminder of our own problems.

Why Monday? Was there A/B testing done to find the best day to ask?

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