To make the use case for Flattr more straight forward and easier for everybody to undersand we've decided to stop letting our users receive single donations. Starting today we will take away the "donate" button option on user profiles and in the popup that appears when you click at Flattr button twice. The function will … Continue reading We are closing down the donation button
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We've made it easier than ever to support creators. Now you can give and receive microdonations directly on services you use. Connect your Flattr account to Twitter, Instagram, Soundcloud, Github etc and just “favorite”, “like” or “star” to flattr content you appreciate. Everyday creators post 400 million tweets to Twitter and upload 5 million photos to Instagram. For most … Continue reading Launching new Flattr – Add money to your likes
Last Friday the documentary about The Pirate Bay premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and on the internet respectively. It's an incredible success with over 1 million views on Youtube and lot's of seeds on TPB in only four days. I'm in it, and I get a brief chance to describe what Flattr is. The director … Continue reading TPB AFK and why I started Flattr
We love when services integrate with Flattr. This weekend it happened again when the Austrian podcasting service gpodder.net enable podcasters and listeners to connect with us. gpodder.net is a free podcasting webservice that connects podcast-clients. It lets users manage podcast subscriptions via the web and sync it to their clients on their computer and phones. They have an open API that client … Continue reading Easy to support podcasters with gpodder.net
2012 has been a year of heavy developments at Flattr. Among some things we introduced connections to make it easier to become flattrable, announced a revenue sharing program for partner sites and integrated with the music streaming service Grooveshark. On behalf of everybody at Flattr I wish you a Happy New Year! JANUARY Developer challenge … Continue reading 2012 in review, it’s been a good year
We all have cravings for news, stories about what's happening in the world around us is crucial to our understanding of both ourself and other people. We also know that the news industry is struggling to make money online. This is of course something we want to help fixing. Therefore we're happy to announce that … Continue reading Swedish news site to add Flattr
We love music. But we know that it's tricky to directly support artists on the internet. As a service trying to empower creators we don't like standing to the side just watching. So we haven't! For a long time we have tried to crack how we can help artists to get money for the great … Continue reading Flattring artists with Grooveshark
Are you a creator getting money from your fans? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to give them something back to them? A chance to tell them what you are doing next and thank them for their support, even share your secrets. Now you can! We have just added a way to send a … Continue reading Treat your supporters with some extra topping!
We have for a long time been blessed with a vibrant developer community. Until now the offspring of the developers and Flattr has been totally invisible. There have not been any place to find applications built for Flattr. Now there is. Say "Hello" to our new App Gallery! In the gallery you can find mobile … Continue reading Introducing Flattr App Gallery
We don't like that the majority of homepages are in English, anyone should be able to use it regardless of English skills. So we offer our site in a several different languages. The actual translation is done through a community effort and we rely completely on our community for our translations. Want to help us? … Continue reading Help us translate