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Update coming[edit]

There is a blog article from Juni, https://blog.flattr.net/2017/06/key-elements-of-the-new-flattr-a-status-update/ and I just recived a mail inviting me to the launch party for Flattr 2.0 on 24-Oct in Berlin, where the concept described in the blog article supposedly goes live.

The new concept is very different, based on a browser plugin instead of a flattr button. I suppose that the new owner wants to leverage their popular Adblock plugin to spread Flattr and combine adblocking and micropayments this way. -- 84.245.32.230 (talk) 13:34, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Critique[edit]

What about a section with critique on the flattr project? There must be more to this story than only positive noises. --90.145.21.187 (talk) 04:20, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you find some critiques from a reliable source, feel free to add them, or reply with them here. I haven't seen any yet.--greenrd (talk) 09:40, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are a few generic critiques about micropayments that Clay Shirky has made, mentioned in this Economist article about Flattr (that could be used in general to add to the article if desired). Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 17:41, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree, a critique would be a good idea. Having said which, I don't know that much about it. One thing the wiki article doesn't say (and a quick web search wouldnt' tell me) is their business model/legal structure - is flattr a profit-making company? a foundation? A charity? Seems like a a few people would be unhappy with them taking a 5-10% cut for donations. Does anyone know any more about this and is able to add something? Also, would be good to know more about the software running the site - is this open-sourced? Iamsorandom (talk) 13:16, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating and maintaining this page. I'm not an expert on the subject, but I cannot understand the meaning of the sentence "On 28 April 2011 Flattr announced by email that they won't require users to flattr others anymore before they can be flattrd starting from 1 May 2011." What am I missing? Thanks, EnamelWildcat (talk) 22:04, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Digg / Content Tagging and Storage / Social Content Management ?[edit]

I don't really understand Flattr and this article did not help me. I went to the flattr home page to try to learn how to add a 'pay me' button to some pages, to try out their system, and all I could find was information about how to set up sending them tagged content. I can't understand their descriptions, but the video and long text versions all talk about micropayment concepts, but the interface and the technical docs seem to give no indication of that. WTH? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.55.170.9 (talk) 21:49, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, I can't tell if the service itself is useful or not.

The Flattr-enabled webpages that I have seen appear to almost universally deserve a donation, in my opinion, which is a nice change from seeing "donate by Paypal" on everyone's webpage, deserving or not. Unfortunately, upon closer inspection, their web page doesn't explain what they do, how to do it, or hope to achieve; at least not very well. I was hoping to find a better explanation on Wikipedia, but no luck. Hopefully the creator(s) and contributors to Flattr will read this.--moeburn (talk) 23:55, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The third sentence of this article is Users will be able to pay a small monthly amount and then click buttons on sites to share out the money they paid in among those sites, sort of like an Internet tip jar. (maybe the "will be able" should be replaced by "are able"). This is the basic idea. An internet tip jar with a monthly spending cap. Isn't that clear from that description? --Bhaak (talk) 07:51, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No. Still isn't. --Jerome Potts (talk) 22:06, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

kachingle[edit]

this seems very similar kachingle.com--Melaen (talk) 10:27, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I know, that's why I added it, but it was deleted for being a redlink. Redlinks to non-existent articles are usually deleted - so why not create the Kachingle page, if it's notable?--greenrd (talk) 05:59, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category Payment systems[edit]

...not Category:On-line payment ? Perhaps i didn't understand the article well. --Jerome Potts (talk) 22:04, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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New logo[edit]

The logo for this company is out of date, and should be edited to reflect that. I don't have sufficient permissions to upload a new image. Would somebody be willing to do so?

Tohonas (talk) 10:29, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Without the browser extension[edit]

Can someone Flattr a creator without installing the browser extension? Recurrently, or would the user have to manually Flattr the same profile every time? It's not said on the website. 73.232.129.145 (talk) 14:34, 3 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they can be done recurrently. The blog has more information: https://blog.flattr.com/2019/06/going-fully-mobile-with-you-behind-the-dashboard/ The website itself doesn't have much information about this use case yet unfortunately. Gburning (talk) 14:25, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]