3 years is nothing especially if you intentionally kill your donations. They won’t come back magically when they will need them.
Plus as stated before, they can divert the money to other projects related to Jellyfin themselves. They don’t need the community to do that for them.
Honestly, if you are a project the size of Jellyfin and you ask donations to stop because you have a measly three years of operational runway without funding anything and without any idea of what to do with the money, I seriously question your ability to survive.
>They won’t come back magically when they will need them.
With the kind of goodwill they're building here I'm inclined to doubt that. People want to naturally cheer for the good guy and it's hard not to see an open source passion project led by these fellas as not being the good guy.
People don't magically cheer for the "good guy" whatever that means.
People give to projects they know about and have visibility. Now, if Jellyfin actually needs money, they will have to do a huge outreach push to overcome their own message that they don't need money.
Plus as stated before, they can divert the money to other projects related to Jellyfin themselves. They don’t need the community to do that for them.
Honestly, if you are a project the size of Jellyfin and you ask donations to stop because you have a measly three years of operational runway without funding anything and without any idea of what to do with the money, I seriously question your ability to survive.