First, I noticed you pulled out the watermark/banner/whatever from the latest download. [
edit: my bad, it's still there] Just a suggestion that you could prompt users at first-run to say "hey would you mind supporting my program by donating, adding a banner to your images, or liking me on facebook?" ... something with buttons corresponding to each option. You might get more attention/donations.
Jaex wrote:So many times people offered to have advertisement in ShareX which could have earned me money but still I preferred to have clean software and not accepted them. So I'm working for 7 years without earn anything other than donations
Please remember we're your friends here, I'm just trying to figure out what's going on. We know you've given a lot with this and it's a fantastic freeware and OSS program. I'm was just trying to figure out a new change in a rapidly evolving program. I posted it here just in case I was asking a stupid question, which it was (thanks both to you and Joby for workaround and then a fix).
I realize you haven't been getting many donations but we've been trying to show our appreciation through a bunch of free promotions work. Frequent updates of the database, detailed edits to the extract instructions to make sure visitors don't get confused, even an animated slideshow (which has since been overwritten as it was out of date). We also did some work against the folks
counterfeiting your work and we'll do it again if necessary. Just keep in mind we're volunteers; nobody's getting paid here.
Jaex wrote:... pissing me off you calling my software shady. Because my only intention in this software is helping people, this is why I'm wasting my time on it.
I think romulous is suspicious just because we've been through this a whole lot of programs that started out freeware and then went adware, bundleware, nagware, etc. We do a lot of work for these programs and often get disappointed when things go commercial, usually because of donation frustration. Feel free to read back through conversations with devs
atomizer or
patpat for a first-hand account of this. Then we generally have to host an old version of the program, which usually angers the developer and everyone walks away unhappy.