Donations, the smaller brother of the Flattr system, just got some small but important updates. We added donations over a year ago and quite a few organizations and causes have used it successfully to allow their supporters to give a larger sum of money every month. The current system was a quick hack and and … Continue reading Donations made simpler, higher monthly max
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Following someone on Flattr to easily see the stuff they like has been one of the most requested features from our users. Now you can do just that. Instead of writing about the feature Pelle recorded a quick screencast (below). Keep in mind it’s sort of beta feature, not entirely polished, missing a few features … Continue reading Filter out the good stuff – new follow feature
Took us a while to catch on but you can now listen to flattrable Soundcloud tunes right inside our catalog (and flattr the ones you like). The screenshot shows Dope Star Inc.’s "We are the new ones" page (song embedded below). Expect to see more and more embeddable content (videos, Github bits and pieces) inside … Continue reading Tunes from SoundCloud now embedded in catalog
In the spirit of releasing stuff earlier rather than later let me introduce a little something we’ve cooked up - a Flattr widget for your website. The idea with the widget was to make it possible to show your supporters, get a little social recognition and take the fear off from your visitors in the … Continue reading It’s a boy!… erm, widget! Beta testers wanted
One of the lesser known features of Flattr is the ability to subscribe to a Thing. It’s a simple way of donating to something over a longer period of time without having to remember to do it manually. It’s great if you’re a regular user of free software, listen to podcasts, enjoy political analysis of … Continue reading Flattr subscriptions and Popularity Dance
I’m the first one to acknowledge that our catalog hasn't been great. To be honest it was quite awful. And so I’m super happy to say that we killed the old one and just minutes ago released a new an seriously good Catalog. Why does it matter? Because number 1 complaint our users, especially new … Continue reading The catalog is dead, long live the Catalog!
A simple "Thank you!" (or "Danke", "Merci", "Gracias", "Tack"…) is one of the most powerful things in the world you can say to anyone. Add a smile and you’re ready to make the world a better place. You can now send a friendly thank-you-notice to those who flattred you last month. There’s a link in … Continue reading Completing the circle – thank your supporters
Sometime in Spring we added a way to flattr any Twitter account just to make it easy to show your support to those who haven’t joined us yet. It’s turned out more successful than we hoped with an interesting side effect - the unclaimed accounts. These are Twitter accounts that have been flattred but who’s … Continue reading Five Twitter users who never claimed their money
So did you think we took Christmas off? You'd be right! But we've also had several major things bubbling in the pipeline for quite some time that we can finally tell you about because they're now out in the wild! Donations! From the start people have asked for a way to give more to something … Continue reading Grande update: Offline, Donations and more!
Lot's of users have asked for this feature so we are very happy to announce it. The Flattr subscriptions have arrived. It's an auto-flattr feature that will flattr a thing automatically for the coming 3, 6 or 12 months. To use it: flattr the thing, then click the button again and choose how many months. … Continue reading Subscribe to your favorite things!