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I like the idea, but something that does concern me is the potential lack of transparency.

While sponsors won't have any control over the projects they are funding, they will have access to a Sponsors-only issue tracker on GitFund with support for upvoting issues — thus gently nudging the maintainers on what they consider to be important.

I wonder if this Sponsors-only issue tracker be visible to the public? Although I suppose you could argue this sort of thing currently happens behind closed doors anyway...