This is a follow-up to my previous post asking for design suggestions for the new donation dialog. It gave a lot of valuable feedback which is why I’m making another similar post.

This time it’s about the donation page on join-lemmy.org (linked above). What can be done to improve the texts and design? For a start I already changed the text to the same one from the donation dialog. Here more space is available, so a longer text with more details could be written (possibly below the donation buttons).

What do you think about the available donation options? Do they work for you or would you prefer to donate through a different platform? On the other hand it is possible that the number of available options is already too confusing. Would it help to add a short description for each button?

Below are lists of contributors, translators and sponsors. They haven’t been updated in two years and no one complained, which indicates that they don’t serve as motivation for people to contribute or donate. So I would remove that whole section which will leave a lot of free space. What else can we put there, maybe a list of reasons why people should donate?

By the way I plan to make a recurring series of posts like this. The next ones will likely cover onboarding for new users, the reports page and more. If you know a catchy name for this series you can also comment it below.

Edit: The changes are now deployed, but you are welcome to make further suggestions.

  • .Donuts
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    6 days ago

    0.6 / 3 devs funded*

    Currently the information is shown when hovering over (“Based on a median European €50,000 software developer salary from developersalary.com”), which is behaviour expected when you hover over an (i)-icon (or a question mark). If you put in an asterisk, there should be somewhere on the bottom of this element that refers to said asterisk to indicate the extra info. It’s not intuitive to having to mouse-over an asterisk, imo.

    4 months remaining

    I imagine this is referring to current balance. I’m not saying there should be a sense of urgency communicated but it might hurt donations if there’s is shown that you’ve got 4 months left anyway.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      26 days ago

      Right, I removed the asterisk and added a dotted underline instead to indicate hover text. The text with 4 months left is an old leftover, Ive removed it. Also made the text bigger and changed the button layout (though it looks too green now).