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5 May 2021 at 8:27 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Arehandoro
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Liam DaweLiberapay is anonymous.
It used to be anonymous when they were still working with Mangopay, but during my last tests the actual Stripe/PayPal payments gave away the donor identity.

This is one of the reasons I left Liberapay.
If you use PayPal then yes, of course it does, you can't do anonymous on PayPal. Stripe still goes through Liberapay, we don't see any user details through it.
You can still see the account ID from the donation in liberapay, isn't it? Wouldn't be possible to map the account ID, if a user wants, to the user in GOL? If the user does not have the real name in GOL or LiberaPay the donation would still be anonymous.

There must be a way I reckon. I donate, without PayPal, via LiberaPay to Codeberg [External Link] and they use that payment for my membership.
Nope. We don't get an ID details on Stripe for Liberapay.

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4 May 2021 at 7:54 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Liam DaweLiberapay is anonymous.
It used to be anonymous when they were still working with Mangopay, but during my last tests the actual Stripe/PayPal payments gave away the donor identity.

This is one of the reasons I left Liberapay.
If you use PayPal then yes, of course it does, you can't do anonymous on PayPal. Stripe still goes through Liberapay, we don't see any user details through it.

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4 May 2021 at 6:25 pm UTC

Quoting: Arehandoro
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: TheSHEEEPWhat share of donations do the different platforms actually take?
Or, in other words, which one is the most "efficient"?
Direct Stripe payments on Liberapay probably gives us the best rate. Direct to PayPal next, then Patreon. Patreon though gives us the stability.
I'd be happy to change from PayPal to LiberaPay, do you guys have planned including the benefits from Patreon and the "Supporter Plus" badge for LiberaPay users at some point?

* I remember there were some benefits for Patreon users, but correct me if wrong :)
Afraid not, Liberapay is anonymous.

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4 May 2021 at 12:13 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: TheSHEEEPWhat share of donations do the different platforms actually take?
Or, in other words, which one is the most "efficient"?
Direct Stripe payments on Liberapay probably gives us the best rate. Direct to PayPal next, then Patreon. Patreon though gives us the stability.

Beyond a Steel Sky gets a big upgrade with newer Vulkan support
4 May 2021 at 9:50 am UTC

From what they said in Discord about Vulkan:
I think you're right in that I could have phrased it better. I checked with our Linux devs who assured me that it's an emulated feature level and still Vulkan, but using a pared back feature level for better performance.

Imperator: Rome from Paradox is put on hold to focus on other projects
3 May 2021 at 11:44 am UTC Likes: 3

To the people mentioning updates, all Paradox games on Steam have an opt-in Beta available for different previous versions to continue saves.

Beyond a Steel Sky gets a big upgrade with newer Vulkan support
3 May 2021 at 11:30 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: tuubiYeah I think they might be mixing up their backends.
Yeah, it's definitely using Vulkan. Have asked them about it.

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3 May 2021 at 9:58 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: FredOExcellent news that GOL now has a Valve Index - a huge donation for sure. I've been finding it hard to get an overview of the current status of VR on Linux and have held of getting any kit for that reason, so maybe you can now bring some clarity to the topic...?
An article of initial thoughts is well in progress :)

Wolfire Games filed a lawsuit against Valve over abuse of their market position
3 May 2021 at 8:33 am UTC Likes: 3

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2 May 2021 at 4:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: denyasisI'm not trying to sound mean, I'm just confused
It's a good set of questions. I assume it is very much to give a standard experience across the platforms for older titles, especially those that don't really work on modern systems.