Permanent Facepile Credit to Individuals Supporting Eleventy
Every single page of the 11ty.dev Docs has a facepile in the footer, populated (automatically) by our Open Collective supporters list. Historically, to be a part of this facepile you needed to meet the following criteria:
- Have an active recurring (monthly/yearly) Open Collective contribution (of any amount).
- Have a non-default avatar or a web site added to your Open Collective profile that we can pull a favicon from.
Gold and silver tiers are shuffled randomly at build time but the Supporter tier is sorted by cumulative donation amount (descending).
Moving forward, the Gold and Silver tiers will still require active contributions but we’re relaxing the Supporter tier to be more inclusive of emeritus/former supporters:
- Individuals contributing no longer need to be active and will be shown if cumulative contributions are greater than USD $55. This change means that one-time/non-recurring contributors will now be shown (if the amount meets stated minimums).
- Organization accounts will still need to have an active contribution to be shown. (Individual versus organization refers to the type of Open Collective account making the contribution)
- If you have the default avatar (and no web site in your Open Collective profile) we will now show your entry in the facepile but the minimum cumulative total is USD $200 to use the default avatar. Too many folks don’t have an avatar or web site 😅 which makes the facepile look… well, not great. If you update your profile we will pick up your changes! The build runs (at minimum) daily.
- Notably, it’s unchanged that there are no minimums for active recurring monthly/yearly contributions (for both individuals and organizations).
I hope this relaxation gives proper permanent credit to individuals that have contributed monetarily to the project, while filtering out the spam/bot accounts that have contributed a few dollars and subsequently immediately cancelled (hoping to be listed on the web site).
While I have y’all here I might also mention that your avatar links directly to the web site listed in your Open Collective profile. While these links do use rel="sponsored", it can help your search engine rank so it helps to configure your Open Collective profile appropriately!
Appreciate y’all!
