[straight-shoota]

I'm a core developer of Crystal.

All sponsorship contributions pay some development hours, so they're valuable to improve the project.

Sponsors presentation is only based on their _current_ contribution, not the accumulated total.

[lolinder]

How does the team feel about selling Google reviews and Instagram followers? How do 84codes and Manas.Tech feel about being placed alongside these sketchy sponsors?

I get that money is hard to come by, but I hope you realize that you might be doing more than $1500/mo in damage to the project by accepting these ad placements.

[beta-ziliani]

This is a problem we have with the current page layout. We agree that these need to be clearly marked as ad, instead of legitimate sponsors.

Quite frankly, this is something new to us (ads paying enough to be there), so we're still figuring out.