I just did a donation to kde using the page at https://kde.org/community/donations/, after confirming the donation I got a 404. I imagine that the confirmation page is where I could customize the donation message. When looking at the page at https://kde.org/community/donations/previousdonations/ it doesn't show any messages customized by the users since August
Yeah, this happened to me too.
Git commit 61618077b73cb1f5692ee24e80cee45781fcf967 by Carl Schwan. Committed on 10/11/2020 at 11:36. Pushed by carlschwan into branch 'master'. Fix 404 after donating some money A +28 -0 community/donations/thanks_paypal.php A +11 -0 content/community/donations/thanks_paypal.md https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/commit/61618077b73cb1f5692ee24e80cee45781fcf967
Unfortunally it looks like Paypal doesn't allow to add a customized message. I could make it possible to write a message directly in kde.org instead of paypal but this will need a bit of work :(
The previous system we used had people specify a comment prior to submitting the donation (if they wanted to, it was optional). This was returned to us by PayPal if the donation went through successfully and was recorded in the database and subsequently used to display details on their donation.
We did disable the comments on purpose, people where just using it to troll, advertise questionable websites for a 0.01€ donation, etc.