I think it is probably safe to call it here. The overwhelming majority of you support the development of software you use to varying degrees of "sometimes", which is pretty cool.

From the replies to this thread, I gather it's relatively common for people to only support projects that are already relatively mature and popular, which is an interesting chicken and egg problem. Also you don't get anything if you don't ask, but it works better if the asking doesn't feel extractive. Not surprising

@aeva in fact, this reminds me of my time at a consumer software company. as many developers at that time, we only made money when people bought a copy. but because minor updates were free, people only bought a copy when a new major version came out.

so we published a new major version every year. but in order to justify a new version it had to have new features. so marketing kept inventing features nobody asked for, and we had to implement them.