User reward to Habr’s authors

    Habr has long encouraged active authors within the framework of the PAP (Program for the Encouragement of Authors). However, far from all comers can participate in it - first you need to “work out” a certain length of service. And not everyone has the patience to go this distance. While digging the backlog of hoteloks, we drew attention to the function of user promotion (donation), within which users themselves could reward the author (any). The survey showed that this function will really be in demand, so we decided to implement it.





    Survey results

    First, we want to thank you for the feedback that you provided us in the publication with the donation survey. We were interested in the possible pitfalls of various options for the implementation of the donut - and you told us everything. Thanks!

    We decided to take the path of least resistance and at the moment the donates are working as follows:

    1. The author indicates in the profile settings his details in payment systems:

    2. At the end of each publication posted by the author, the “Send money” button appears:

    3. Pressing the button will open a popup in which links to those wallets that the author indicated in paragraph 1 will be inserted. These will be links to the pages of payment systems where you can carry out the usual transfer of funds.

    4. The reader selects a payment system convenient for him and goes through the standard transfer procedure, indicating the desired amount of remuneration.

    5. ???
    6. PROFIT

    This approach allows you to organize donations directly through payment services, without any hidden fees and without tax fuss for us. The button “Send money” will be at the end of each publication of the author, even if we are talking about authors from corporate blogs (unlike PAP, where corporate publications are not taken into account).

    So far we support only three payment systems:

    • Yandex.Money - you just need a wallet number in the system
    • WebMoney - you need to specify the WMID number (and not a specific wallet)
    • PayPal - you need to specify a login in PayPal.me  

    Donat function can be tested directly in this publication, for which I indicated the necessary details. Just transfer any amount to check how everything looks in practice and feel free to donate in the future. We will send all the funds raised to charity.

    PSWe already had a chance to hear a discussion in the spirit of “Why pay, if Habr is so all so free?”. Everyone has their own answer to this question. But our train of thought is something like this: often we pay a lot of money for a conference at which one or two reports may be useful; we buy books and manuals, videos with short professional lessons. And everywhere the price is initially set. And in the case of a donate, you can thank the author for the specific benefit that he brought to you. So that you are not at a loss, and he is pleased, and most importantly, motivates to share knowledge even more.

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