[999900000999]

What is this ?

Why advertise a service without any details about what it actually is ?

On one hand 5$ is a nominal monthly amount to support MDN. But seriously, just ask for money. I'd be more inclined to help if they just wrote a post saying ' servers ain't free, give us money before this turns into w3schools '.

[irrational]

A few years ago Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. sent out a press release saying they were abandoning their own documentation efforts and were going to support MDN going forward, which they now considered to be the official documentation of the web.

The servers certainly should be free. AWS, google cloud, Azure should be hosting MDN for free as part of their commitment they laid forth to support MDN.

[999900000999]

Without seeing their balance sheet we can’t know what their costs are.

Vague promises are one thing, donating enough to support full time employees at MDN is completely different.

Even if the servers are free, they’ll have other costs.

[irrational]

Yes, but we are talking about a who’s who of the largest tech companies in the world, each of which has their own cloud service systems. One of them could host the content and the others could each pay for a full time person and it would be a few magnitudes less than my paying a single penny towards it a year.

[999900000999]

I would love for that to be the case, but at the same time Mozilla is notorious with money mismanagement.

I wouldn't hold my breath here for any big company to step up and feel more Mozilla's coffers. That said, I'm open to buying some merch. As in I'll pay $50 for a sweatshirt