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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 871216" data-attributes="member: 18896">Whenever financially possible I contribute to the open source solutions that I enjoy, or donate my time in the hope of improving the experience for everybody else. The latter being the case for MediaPortal. Still, I've been blown away by the popularity growth that the IMDb+ plugin has gone through. What started out as a small personal project to improve things the way I wanted them for myself has turned into something much bigger that is now being enjoyed (or as some would say; endured <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite27" alt=":whistle:" title="Whistling    :whistle:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":whistle:" />) by more then 15,000 users. This growth is due to all the new languages and options supported, many of which I'll never use myself, but was happy to add them for others. Of course the downside of this is that IMDb+ has grown quite complex, for as small of a project as it is, and adding new features takes more and more time. Even though my wife enjoys the results of everything (she loves her reality-TV), she is also constantly complaining that I spent way too much of my time on MediaPortal and that I should be working instead <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" />. So today unbeknownst to her I've created a PayPal donation button that ties directly into her personal PayPal account to see if I can prove her wrong: <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4DDQ6GBDGJRK6" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> If it turns out to be a smashing success by the generosity of the more fortunate amongst you, I will donate a portion back to the MediaPortal team, the Moving-Pictures plugin developers (without which IMDb+ would not exist) and the lead developer of the MP-TVSeries plugin who's help was instrumental to get the IMDb+ plugin functional. And if times are tough (as they are for many), perhaps try to see if you can pay it forward by donating a little bit of your time by helping out i.e forum assistance, documentations, translations, etc. or as simple as testing and reporting problems so that they can be fixed, or just promote MediaPortal to others <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up    (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></blockquote>

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