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I was thinking about it. I donate to quite a few charities, but they specifically mean something to me. Others I don't really think about, though they're good. I guess we all have a threshold or we'd be broke and for many that could be no donations at all or just a fiver the the street guy.

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This should really be more widely known. It's a case study of mission creep and bureaucratization. The cost of keeping the servers running, and even dev work, is at this point a smallish fraction of what they're pulling in. The is rest going to various forms of outreach and activism. That's fine, and the money is probably well spent. But they really should be more honest about why they're asking for it.