Eleutheria Pay - Open source donation platform

[murgero]

@murgero In reply to the iframe / embed - there should be JS code that allows a simpler UI to be embedded into a website Something like <script src="someEmbed.js"></script> That will embed into the current page, a button at the bottom of the browser window that says something like "Support Me?" or whatever.

[A Former User]

@murgero good idea! I’ll take a look at embed stuff. As for plugins, I’m definitely looking to split the payment processors out into a sort of plugin system. It’s going to require a lot of abstracting out the payment system specifics from the rest of the app. It’s going to be interesting to try this as plug-ins will have front end and back end components. At least Stripe does (frontend-> backend-> frontend)

I also welcome contributions if anyone wants. I’ll figure out if external accounts on my GitLab have the correct permissions and write up a contribution guide

[A Former User]

@marcusquinn

FeelsBadMan. We'll have to wait.

[A Former User]

Made a couple of updates. One of them was an endpoint that serves an SVG donation badge that can be embedded in websites or git readme files. I added it to my repo here if you wanna see:

https://git.lahijiapps.dev/atrilahiji/eleutheriapay

Also trying to figure out how to tweak the cloudron package to properly merge .env files and the styles.css file. Right now while updates work on cloudron, I have to manually add config changes to the .env file.

[marcusquinn]

@atrilahiji nice, left-align makes much more sense to me. I don't even know that I've every seen a centre-aligned form, constrained width to a max would make more sense, as the container would be centred, rather than the content. Good stuff.

[murgero]

@atrilahiji Cloudron wasn't made to update files that way, what you can do is use an updated start.sh to compare and then add new lines to .env.

[murgero]

@atrilahiji said in Eleutheria Pay - Open source donation platform:

Also trying to figure out how to tweak the cloudron package to properly merge .env files and the styles.css file. Right now while updates work on cloudron, I have to manually

Can I also make another suggestion? Can you add the option to detect dark mode enabled browsers (chrome, firefox, edge, etc all support this feature) so the site's dark mode toggle follows the users OS-determined settings?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50840168/how-to-detect-if-the-os-is-in-dark-mode-in-browsers

Once this project is more stable, I plan to use it as well for accepting donations.

[A Former User]

@murgero already done. What it should be doing (I’ll verify again) is use your locastorage first. If it’s your first time visiting it will detect your system settings.

This means that if you manually toggle to light mode and come back, it will still be light and ignore your system preferences

[A Former User]

@marcusquinn I will have to respectfully disagree with that one. That being said, the CSS is fully user customizable

[marcusquinn]

@atrilahiji No worries, just my POV, noting the above Fast screenshot and similar with Stripe, Paypal and every other checkout form I've ever seen.

[A Former User]

@marcusquinn Something like this?

@murgero @jdaviescoates opinions?

[murgero]

@atrilahiji That looks really good.

[A Former User]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I pushed and deployed a new demo and I think I have the hand of hang of bootstrap breakpoints.

[murgero]

@atrilahiji Ya cert is borked

[A Former User]

@murgero Oh the new demo link is https://eleutheriapaydemo.atrilahiji.dev/

I cant update the OP anymore (dunno why) but its updated on the repo.

[jdaviescoates]

@atrilahiji said in Eleutheria Pay - Open source donation platform:

I cant update the OP anymore (dunno why) but its updated on the repo.

I think when @Staff updated this NodeBB a load of default settings got changed, including making it so we can now no longer edit old posts. I'd like that change to be changed back.

[marcusquinn]

@atrilahiji Thats nice

[marcusquinn]

For the radio-button styles, It might look better to invert, so blue text on white. We always try to make high-contract for visually-impaired accessibility.

[A Former User]

@marcusquinn Done (sort of).

[marcusquinn]

@atrilahiji Very nice! Some other tweaks:

• Perhaps add the Name & Email fields to your form so they are pre-populated when getting to the Stripe page.
• Currencies in alphabetical order.

Are you thinking to have an admin page for configuring the values & defaults? If so:

• Different amounts based on currency selection.
• "Donate" button text configurable (eg: "Subscribe", "Sponsor")
• Social sharing icons & links.

Coming together really nicely though, I can see why you wanted to make an alternative to Fosspay.

Maybe consider changing:

• "Elutheria Pay is a self-hosted FOSS payment system for FOSS developers" to
• "Elutheria Pay is a self-hosted, open-source and private payment system for projects, services and fundraising."