Our Mastodon instance will be decommissioned on October 6. If you have an account there, please start looking at which Mastodon instance you would like to migrate your account to (a list of public servers is available at https://joinmastodon.org/servers). Documentation is available at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#move. To move your account open https://social.opendesktop.org/auth/edit and use the “Move to Read more >

Started in April 2017, Pling has supported creators through a payout system funded by community donations. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed — by creating, sharing, donating, or simply being part of this community. A big Thank you everyone for your trust, creativity, and generosity over the years. It is with this Read more >

In the past 5 years, since we continued this project from its previous maintainer, we frequently get suggestions, improvements or reportings about potential issues, also security related. Due to the amount of the requests and our internal proceedings, usually no direct contact or interaction happens. We do take the time to look at any of Read more >

Looking at the past months, things turn out to be quite successfull regarding the growth of the platform. It is therefore our motivation to continue our goal to offer an easy compensation model for creators and supporters alike. To be able to do this best, we like to introduce a new overview site: Pling.com. While Read more >

We have added something new to Opendesktop: Collections. Collections are essentially like products, only that they contain already existing products instead of being one on its own. Anyone can use collections to easily combine related products that are otherwise residing in seperate categories. A collection can therefore consist of own or other products, so it Read more >

Tired of providing your phone number and getting spam that matches your last conversation topics? As of today, any Opendesktop.org user can use Matrix, a 100% libre and decentralized messenging server. After Discourse and Gitlab, this is our third libre 3-rd party service application. To easily use it, you find a new icon called “Chat” Read more >

With the possibility to display the license under which item is released, there is now a link in the sidebar of each product called “Report Misuse”. When clicked, it allows registered users to report products who look like they do not have a proper license or the license is conflicting with the product on display. Read more >

Today we enabled SSO for the forum, meaning that anyone who already has an account at opendesktop.org now doesnt need to add an extra forums account, but can login with same username and password. Further, older accounts that were seperate before should be matched and marged, so older seperate forums accounts should still work and Read more >

Starting this month, products eligible to participate in receiving plings are required to do so under a valid libre license. Further some product categories ask the contributor to point to an online source(-code) repository of that exact product uploaded. The reason for that is not to just providing the source-code within the file archive itself, Read more >

On May 1st we started our beta testphase to compensate creators for their contributions on a voluntary base. After 5 months of testing, we feel confident to roll it out publicly to anyone contributing to the Opendesktop to keep the platform growing for the benefit of everyone who enjoys OpenSource and Free/Libre Software and Content. Read more >