destream — the main donation method on Habr.com
Hello everyone! Great news: habr.com has launched a donation system for creators on their platform. We at destream helped them implement the financial functionality. Now, all Habr users can benefit from multiple payment gateways, convenient conditions, and instant withdrawals!
The story:
User donations on Habr first appeared back in February 2019 and were warmly received by the audience. However, the performance of the system left much to be desired. The thing is, until 2023, only three payment services were supported: Yandex.Money (ЮMoney), WebMoney, and PayPal. Besides, not all authors knew that details can be specified in the profile settings. Moreover, not all readers even saw the donate button under the articles. As a result: for all the time there were about 3800 donations on the platform — an extremely poor result.
Flours of choice:
No matter how modest the results were, the guys from Habr did not leave the idea of creating a truly efficient and optimized donation system. However, at this point, a dilemma was brewing: to create a system by themselves, spending a lot of time, effort, and money on a possibly not-the-best result, or turn to a third party that would take all the work with payments on itself?
The result:
As you already understood, the guys chose the second option and decided to entrust payment processing to professionals. Now a new donation system has appeared on Habr, which will surely satisfy the needs of the vast majority of users.
Habr × destream
Connecting destream to your Habr account is the simplest process, carried out in three steps.
- Sign up for destream.
2. Go to your profile settings on Habr.com and in the “Payment details” section, link your account and enable the display of the button for donations under the articles (see screenshots below).
3. Activate 2FA on your destream account to enable the withdrawal feature.
Conclusion:
We at destream are happy to cooperate with the Habr portal and hope that with our help more authors will be able to monetize their content and receive well-deserved appreciation for their work.
At the moment, the system has just launched, so some minor glitches or small flaws in the UX/UI are possible. In the coming patches, we’ll improve and develop the system until it’s perfect.
Have a nice day and stay creative!
