I was approved a couple of weeks ago and encouraged people donating to Tildes to move over to using GitHub Sponsors (<a href="https://tild.es/it2" rel="nofollow">https://tild.es/it2</a>), which has gone pretty well so far, with about half of my recurring donators using it now: <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/Deimos" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sponsors/Deimos</a><p>As explained in the linked post, for anyone that can use GitHub Sponsors, it will be the best available method for receiving donations/support right now, since they're not charging any fees at all, which means the recipient gets about 10% more than they would through Patreon. The $5000 USD matching for the first year is also amazing for smaller projects like mine where that can represent a significant chunk of donations.<p>My only real complaint so far is that the contribution-matching excludes some supporters in unclear ways. It seems like GitHub doesn't want to match contributions from (some?) new GitHub accounts due to potential abuse, but that's a little annoying for projects like mine where the target audience isn't exclusively developers and some people will be signing up for GitHub solely to donate. There also isn't any indication on my end for which contributions are being matched or not, so it's not possible to figure out exactly what my current monthly income from GitHub is.<p>It's not a big deal overall since it's still the best donation method even without matching, but it would be nice if they could try to make the fraud checks based on conditions outside of the GitHub account, like making sure that the accounts aren't using the same credit card as other contributors. It's been a little disappointing for some of my users to see that their contributions won't be matched.<p>I have some other minor complaints about a few aspects (e.g. forced tiers), but the main other issue is that everything is tied to individuals vs. organizations. There's no way to sponsor an organization/project, or sponsor <i>as</i> an organization. It sounds like they're working on that though, so hopefully that will be available before too long.