BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)

Silent changes in payment methods on big creator funding platforms raise some unpleasant questions. UPD Aug 13, 2024: The kind-of-official reply from BuyMeACoffee, and my response to it. UPD Aug 14, 2024: A support email to one of the users gives BuyMeACoffee’s reasons, and also they blocked me on X (Twitter). What happened Recently, many Ukrainian creators have reported problems with payouts from BuyMeACoffee, a creator funding/crowdfunding platform. At first, the reported support answers were typical corporative “we are sorry that we don’t care,” citing “compliance” and “policy updates.” В оригіналі, щоб вестерни читали які там є нікчеми pic.twitter.com/JxoGgamYLq — Karå ꑭ🇺🇦 (@BzickOff) August 2, 2024 Those reports were widely shared, and our predominantly feeling was “shocked but not surprised”: it is not the first time when a big platform has decided that they are too busy to try to distinguish non-occupied parts of a large country with a 30+m population from occupied parts, ... Read full article.