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Hyprperks: a new 5€ official subscription to support Hyprland development. (hypr.land)

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From the blog post:

Hello everyone!

As it’s been not much of a secret anymore, Hyprperks has been a few months in the making, and now it’s all come together.

Hyprperks is now open to purchase to everyone!

If you want to support the development for 5€ + tax a month, and also get a few goodies from us, please check out the pricing page

You will get:

Member-only forum access, with dev Q&A, support from me, and more
Premium desktop experience, which is a set of preconfigured dotfiles with a one-click install and update
And of course, support the continued development.

If you don’t have a Hyprland Account yet, consider making one! It’s free, and gives you access to our public forums, where you can find answers, ask questions, and interact with the community.

Also, thank you for all the support, guys. You are awesome!

Cheers, vax.

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[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

It's an interesting topic me and my friends have discussed for a long time. On one hand, putting ease of use and user experience behind a paywall is terrible but on the other developers deserve compensation. Not everyone can donate and others doesn't even figure that it's an option.

Pangolin I think does it very kindly by having a button on the lower left of the interface that you can click on and then also dismiss to hide that button for a week which I find a good common ground. But at the same time I also think it's hard to justify hate towards projects that lock things behind a paywall.

Of course if you lock security features like OIDC/LDAP like some do or self-hosting to "Local Infrastructure" it's pure BS. I think there's a lot of nuance to what should and shouldn't be done in the matter but as long as it's still open source it's good in my book. Like self hosting Bitwarden gives you access to the paid features or you can pay them the small fee to not self host it and get some extra QoL features.

People do in the end have to juggle software maintenance, community maintenance, organizing issues, planning features and implementations, keeping wiki and docs up to date, etc. On top of, I'm assuming in most cases, having to do a regular job too. I know for a fact I wouldn't be able to do that at all so if they can get some motivation through either code contribution or monetarily it would potentially ease up things.