Watercooler - Q2 2017

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This is Liberapay's quarterly "what's up?" thread. Previous: #98.

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We're getting significant traffic from the Mastodon network. As of now 3 instance admins have created accounts so their users can help pay the costs of running them: https://liberapay.com/search?q=Mastodon.

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Flattr has been bought by Adblock Plus

A good article about it in French: Eyeo (Adblock Plus) rachète Flattr, qui lance sa nouvelle version en bêta.

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The Open Source Collective has raised over $200,000!

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Zebras Fix What Unicorns Break - thoughts on business and investment models, and their impact on society as a whole

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https://mastodon.social/users/maloki/updates/2094126

Yes, there is Flattr, but I find it's difficult to use these days, and I used to work there :P

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New release: Fox | MANGOPAY API Docs

New functionality included in this release

• Preauthorizations are now automatically cancelled after 6.5 days if you do not cancel them yourself (nor do a payin with the preauth)

Improvements included in this release

• Fix a problem in some cases whereby the DocumentURL returned a 404 error for mandates
• Fix an issue which resets an SSO's active sessions in some cases
• Allow for mandate documents to be obtained in a language other than English
• Correct the transaction reporting feature to include a small subset of transactions along with a couple of other minor bugs
• Add a specific error message when uploading a KYC or dispute document that is too large
• Direct debit payments will now be processed one day quicker than previously was the case
• The default payment template for card web payments has received a refreshed design and the translations have been

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The Next Generation of Red Hat OpenShift Online is Here - Too late, we've already migrated to AWS.

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Deep Dive: Payments

Ninety percent of Americans have used a credit card, but far fewer understand the underlying systems enabling their payments. So let’s dive in to see what happens when you swipe your card!

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New Flattr extension in closed beta

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A new era for location-independent entrepreneurs has begun

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New release: Meerkat | MANGOPAY API Docs

New functionality included in this release

• We have now introduced detailed anti-fraud transaction result codes - so the result "Transaction blocked by Fraud Policy" (008500) has now been split up into 11 new codes (covering blocked countries, IPs, velocity rules etc) - you can read more about them here
• You are now able to retry a payin preauth that has failed without having to redo another preauthorization (this is particularly useful when 3DS was used and means you no longer need the prescence of the user)
• We've added a new functionality for the KYC verification of legal users, called UBO Declarations - these are not yet a requirement for your user to be KYC verified and are optional at this stage. You can find out more here.

Improvements included in this release

• The contest deadline (ContestDeadlineDate) for Disputes is now clearer (it's now at 23:59:59 instead of 00:00:00 - ie at the end of the day)
• We've optimised the modification of webhooks to correctly test for a valid URL
• We've fixed a bug which can in rare cases allow for two refunds to be processed for the same payment (even though the second one would always have been ignored by our PSP)
• Some minor improvements were done to the transaction reports for transactions involving client wallets (your fees or credit/repudiation wallet)

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Key elements of the new Flattr – a status update

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Patreon has deployed a new version of their website and logo. I got the info from https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/9166164.

It's interesting that they've chosen to target their entire home page towards creators instead of patrons. The arguments they use to try to convince creators to sign up are also interesting. They even claim that 10% is a low percentage of fees:

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https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/875755128866971650

New feature today! Upload a package.json to find packages to give to: https://gratipay.com/on/npm/ 📦 💸 💃 Announcement: https://gratipay.news/pay-for-your-package-json-cb07341445ca 👍