Bear as a community funded project

Bear has gotten to the point where I have to seriously think about monetisation, as it has over 3000 blogs running on it now.

I was inspired recently by a post by Lichess about how it is 100% free and always will be. They run no ads, have no paywalls, and don't sell data. This is what I want for Bear.

I started out by emailing all the subscribers about my thoughts with a recurring donation link. 14 people immediately hopped on and started supporting the project, which made me pretty happy.

It's not much, but it covers the servers and buys me coffee while I work on features. We'll see if I can hit the goal of $2000 per month in contributions over the next 6 months.