From b060c99a7f9d2df3f75cb5d81ad5d42b70fbe765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alpamys Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 14:11:08 +0500 Subject: [PATCH] docs: drop the Stripe donation link and point support at hardware instead The Stripe checkout was registered under a business the project no longer has any relationship with, so both the link and the paragraph naming that business are removed rather than relabelled. The Support section is not deleted, it is reaimed. Cash was never the binding constraint: the `help wanted` issues are blocked on multi-GPU, 8B+ and Apple Silicon hardware that a single 4 GB laptop cannot reach, and a run posted from a bigger box is worth more to those issues than a donation. Stars stay the cheapest way to help. FUNDING.yml now points at GitHub Sponsors, which renders nothing until the account is enrolled - so the button is absent today either way, and enabling it later needs no further change here. --- .github/FUNDING.yml | 8 +++----- README.md | 16 +++++++--------- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/.github/FUNDING.yml b/.github/FUNDING.yml index cfd2c11..7eb2b18 100644 --- a/.github/FUNDING.yml +++ b/.github/FUNDING.yml @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ # Sponsor button shown in the repo sidebar and on every issue / PR. # -# `github:` only renders once the account is enrolled in GitHub Sponsors -# (https://github.com/sponsors) — it is not, so it stays commented out. -# github: MakazhanAlpamys - -custom: ["https://buy.stripe.com/4gMcN441k3pha3T19ye7m04"] +# Renders only once the account is enrolled in GitHub Sponsors +# (https://github.com/sponsors). Until then the button stays hidden. +github: MakazhanAlpamys diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b6e5ba0..a3f864e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -358,17 +358,15 @@ single 4 GB laptop, which is why every performance number in these docs is measu claimed. If Soup saved you a training run, [starring the repo](https://github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup) -helps most, and it costs nothing. If you would like to fund the work directly: +helps most, and it costs nothing. -**[❤️ Donate](https://buy.stripe.com/4gMcN441k3pha3T19ye7m04)** — one-off, any amount (use -*Change amount* on the checkout page). Payments are processed by Stripe under the maintainer's -registered business, **MePlay, Inc.** — that name, not "Soup", is what appears on the checkout -page and on your card statement. - -Donations fund GPU time for the hardware-gated work — multi-GPU, 8B+ validation, Apple -Silicon — that a single 4 GB laptop cannot reach. See the +The next most useful thing is **hardware**. Multi-GPU, 8B+ validation, and Apple Silicon are +the parts a single 4 GB laptop cannot reach, so they ship behind honest "requires " +gates instead of unverified claims. If you have access to a bigger box — or GPU credits going +unused — running one of the [`help wanted`](https://github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22help+wanted%22) -issues for exactly what is blocked on hardware today. +issues and posting the numbers moves Soup further than anything else. Those issues say exactly +what is blocked on hardware today. ## Contributors