Flattr is closing down (2023)
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Flattr is closing down (2023)
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Re: Flattr is closing down (2023)
#2I hate to be this guy, but 410 seems a more appropriate code: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/410
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#4Re: Flattr is closing down (2023)
#5Oh wow, I completely forgot about Flattr.
Thinking about it again, I quite liked the idea. But I guess it never really caught on enough.
Re: Flattr is closing down (2023)
#6I hate to be this guy, but 410 seems a more appropriate code: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/410
Also the page actually returns 200, disappointingly.
Re: Flattr is closing down (2023)
#7Was Flattr big in the US? It was a "future big thing" in my part of Europe for a while, driven by discussions in Blogs and experiments with using it for bigger projects, iirc. It seemed like it never achieved much success of leaving that bubble though. After a while I never noticed it again. I thought about it recently when noticing that a gaming journalist used Steady for his incomes, and Patreon would be the other service to mention.
Looking at the timeline though, it confuses me that this was only 14 years ago. But no, that lines up with how old my own blog is. Feels far away! The web was a different place back then, and Flattr a part of that past, with a slightly different version of the future than the future we got.
Re: Flattr is closing down (2023)
#8No wonder given the company that acquired the project is rather hotly debated for "removing ads from websites just to reinsert their own."
Edit: Not reinsert their own, but having advertisers pay for the pleasure to not be blocked in their "acceptable ads" program.
Re: Flattr is closing down (2023)
#9I hate to be this guy, but 410 seems a more appropriate code: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/410
Don't, I had no idea there was a dedicated status for that. I'm part of today's lucky 10,000 :D
Re: Flattr is closing down (2023)
#10This is very unfortunate and surprising, goes to show that even after 14 years Flattr didn't find any market.
I was hoping for bitcoin and crypto to show low usage after around 15 years of no legitimate use cases other than speculation, ransomware and other scammy things, but Flattr's shutdown was a surprise.
Flattr billed itself as the RSS of donations to really get rid of those ugly PayPal buttons on blogs, websites and the indie web, but unfortunately that didn't happen.
Why is that? What was Flattr missing here?