Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

This was submitted with a title that doesn’t match the page and is not even accurste (Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up) is not correct. This donation page is not for the public NTP pool. It’s for the NTP Project organization and their web page.

All of the angry comments from people who think NTP will stop working if the donation bar doesn’t get to $1000 are misinformed. Also note that the bar isn’t updating. It’s been stuck at $365 for myself and others despite donations coming in.

I think maybe the title of this topic post is the main source of misinformation.

It’s definitely the title. The title is a plain and simple lie.

You’re right, people are plainly commenting based on the title.

The goal has now mysteriously changed to a goal of $4000.

I see it at $2,130 fifteen minutes after your comment.

Yes, it’s updating now. Ctrl-F this thread and search for ‘365’ and you’ll see that it was not changing for several hours despite donations rolling in.

I suspect someone is updating that bar by hand :V

Probably yes, it's still at 2130

nothing could be LESS mysterious

Likely the $3000 was needed to stand up a network that can handle the request load from hacker news.

Now it's $8,000

>$4,560 of $8,000 raised

Now it's $4560 on the way to a goal of $8000.

Great look, guys. You're fooling... somebody, apparently.

"Please donate so we can automate near-realtime display of our donations bar" doesn't have the same ring to it.

It went from 1k -> 2k -> 4k to 8k, so I guess the next will be 16k and then 32k..

Not sure what happened here—the submitter is a good contributor, so most likely it was a simple misunderstanding—but yeah, the title shouldn't have been editorialized (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).