A New Way to Show Your Support with CoffeeRoll

So, this whole "to buy Coffee, or not to buy Coffee, that is the question" -thing got me thinking a bit more: In my original post on the topic I made a call to "normalize giving " and I've been thinking: are there more ways of doing that, other than the giving itself?

And then I thought: hey, we got all these commonly used slash pages like Blogroll for blogs we recommend, Postroll for individual posts, we got Uses, Default and Carry for things people use on a regular basis, sometimes specifically calling out their subscriptions and other things they pay for...

You get where this is going right?

I propose:

CoffeeRoll - a slash page to show who you're supporting!

This could be ongoing, for example through Liberapay or Patreon, one-off, like the confusingly named Ko-Fi, or the confusingly also Coffee, past, present... or future? I dunno? Maybe? If you want to include people you want to support soon, but can't right now? A simple list, or separated into categories like "ongoing", or "future"? However you wish, the CoffeeRoll is your oyster!

The point here isn't to show off but to normalize. To show that you do. To show that everyone does it. While shouting out folks for people to support.

I just made my own CoffeeRoll and if you make one too let me know and I'll link yours on mine. If we get enough people doing this, or if someone asks me to, I could even make a webring of CoffeeRoll pages. (I may have gotten overly excited and already secured a domain for this net of CoffeeRolls. (Turns out I had an unused free domain slot with my old hosting provider.))

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