Ninjas protecting your un-flattred money (at least for six months)

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I wanted to share two user friendly changes we have implemented in December. The first one concerns funds added mid-month and the other one the rules concerning a situation when you have funds on your account but haven’t flattred anything.

When you create an account and add money mid-month then you now control the whole amount you added right away, not just part of it (equal share to the number of days left in the month) as it used to be before.

If you add money at the very end of the month you can still flattr all of it right away to make your favorite creators happy.

Secondly, we removed the rule that if you haven’t flattred anything during a month then your monthly budget will be donated to a charity. You now keep the money until you finally flattr something, or 6 months passes since your last Flattr click*.

After 6 months of inactivity we are forced to remove the money from our systems. It will still be put to good use as we donate all funds received that way to charity and you get karma points :)

Now, what else can we do to make Flattr easier to use and more logical?

* Technically it’s 6 months starting from the start of the first month without no flattr clicks.