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BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)

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327 points beeburrt | 1 comments | 16 May 25 06:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.271s | source
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EZ-E ◴[16 May 25 06:59 UTC] No.44002516[source]▶
Potentially unpopular opinion but ultimately it's a private service and they decided to disable payout methods which negatively affects Ukrainian users for the sake of integrating new changes/avoiding legal risk. They don't have to support all countries. I feel sorry for the users though, especially I imagine by asking supporters to move to another platform will result in some of them dropping which is the result of platform lock in..
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1. beardyw ◴[16 May 25 07:27 UTC] No.44002664[source]▶
No. I closed down a commercial service I ran and took 6 months to do it in order to give people a reasonable chance to move elsewhere. I didn't have to, but I felt it was the moral thing to do. Maybe morals are out of fashion.