Aversion towards doing something similar with communities.

On a top level, it's three things in my head as a potential supporter

1. Incentive (extra stuff for me)
2. How much work I need to do to GIVE you money
3. Do I feel like I belong

Twitch nails all three. Community software? Not so much.

I guess the key point is the focus is on making a community financially sustainable first before moving to making it profitable.

There is a deeper discussion to be had here about why it's so easy for peeps to pay for subscriptions on something like twitch while there seems to be an...

Adoption is a very hard problem. I agree and this is why I lean more towards something integrated.

V0 of this in my mind is

1. Give supporters a flair/badge
2. Handle all the third-party payment integration

It should be seamless and "trustworthy"

The goal is to cover server and domain cost.

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