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Comment by abraham | Hacker News Reader

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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