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I wish they’d clarify if the money is used to support MDN or not. I wouldn’t be opposed to supporting MDN patreon style, and if it comes with “perks” like articles, sure, why not. But I would do this to support MDNs core documentation, not because I’m dying for technical deep dives.

That said $10/mo is a bit steep for me. And in any event, if they don’t make explicit that the money goes to support MDN upkeep and development then it’s a nonstarter. I’m not giving Mozilla money to fritter away on another rebrand or whatever else they want to use it for.

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They do clarify that with the following sentence:

"We want to provide extra value through premium content and features to help make MDN self-sustaining, on a completely opt-in basis."

But then again, once they have the money, they are free to do what they want with it. Marketing is not binding. It all comes down to this: Do you trust Mozilla?

That’s too vague. That could mean some money goes to MDN (enough “to make it self-sustaining”) and the rest goes to other Mozilla stuff.

I would believe Mozilla if they said “100% of the funds will go to MDN” but they don’t say that.

On one of my devices it lists $5/month so they seem to be testing different amounts.

I’m fully alright with $5 - I saw $10 and immediately thought $5 would be reasonable. If any MDN folks are reading - $10 seems a bit too steep. Especially since this is in US $, it would seemingly put this service out of reach for a lot of people. Perhaps that’s not a concern to the foundation, but works against the principles of the open web in my mind.

We are indeed reading this feedback. And I get your point - thanks!

That’s awesome - I’ll keep my eye on pricing. I’d be glad to support you.

Yeah, I have little interest in any of the listed services. But, I'd be happy to contribute a couple dollars a month to a "pay what you like to support us" tier. Either way I'll probably sign up if it's priced reasonably (or tiered), but imo it's definitely worth marketing "support MDN" prominently for this.

Two issues I found:

1) I had no idea there was a waitlist til I read another comment here; I wasn't going to expand the article, and the signup CTA is gated behind doing that 2) the signup button seems to do nothing? I even tried opening it in Chrome (Firefox is my primary browser)

When you tried it, we've probably had it already closed. We have removed the sign-up to waitlist option yesterday evening.

Five bucks would be a no brainer amount for me. Ten would make me pause and consider if I really needed it.

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