New bounty platform in place of BountySource

[pktiuk (Paweł Kotiuk)]

Recently I was looking for the way to place bounty on selected features of syncthing and I found a topic where you recommend BountySource link

But that platform does no longer exist. Do you have another platform to place bounties?
(If not, I could recommend Polar.sh or Algora )

[pktiuk (Paweł Kotiuk)]

@imsodin
Sorry for pinging but you posted link to bountysource in that comment, so you may know something about current state of affairs.

Bounties for feature requests?

There is a place for it: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/syncthing/issues As to your specific request: I wouldn’t hope for much. I mean if you collect enough money to make someone rich, then maybe, but features mostly happen if a dev considers them useful or interesting and they fit in well with Syncthing - none of that is given for single file sharing.

[imsodin (Simon)]

I only know the same: Bountysource doesn’t exist. And there’s no officially endorsed alternative. If anything working like bountysource that’s not needed either, anyone can just set a bounty on anything.

[calmh (Jakob Borg)]

I think any new initiative like this should be treated very carefully and with skepticism. A third party company taking a backer’s money at day one in order to pay it out, hopefully, at some unspecified time in the future, if a certain issue were to become solved, is a fairly iffy proposition to begin with. I bet they took a significant amount of backers’ money with them to the grave.

[pktiuk (Paweł Kotiuk)]

This can be also said about banks or pension funds. But it doesn’t stop us from putting money in them. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I think that the risk is rather minor.

People willing to do this should still have a choice to do so. But it would be the best if there would be info about using a third party service and about linked potential risks.

[calmh (Jakob Borg)]

Oh for sure, not taking anyones choice away. BountySource was just that, it didn’t come from “us”, it came from people choosing to use it and us adopting/accepting it since it was already in place. (Then it disappeared, taking the backers’ money with them, so the risk in hindsight was nonzero.)