Donation Button adding to Website / Pro Feature Changes

[digitalassassins]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Many of us don't need any of the Pro features, also do not want to sign up for a Pro subscription to support the project. Would like to donate to the upkeep of the free version. No Option to financially help the project.

Describe the solution you'd like
A section on the website that says "Not a pro user but want to help out with development costs? Leave a donation."
Button to pay with Bitcoin / PayPal or similar. Like a "buy the developers a coffee" button on many projects.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Instead of adding it to the website, maybe add it to the GitHub page instead?

Additional context
Many want to donate to the project, but don't want to pay for an ongoing subscription to get features we are never going to use.

Pro Benefits Too High
Also, the Pro needs to be aimed more at Pro users. For instance, I've used Tdarr for over a year, and the Node allocation is too generous.. I've never used more than 2 or 3... 10 is too high.. Then the number of CPU Threads to use for each Node should be restricted to Home use limits.

e.g. 24 or 32. As many home user CPUs have a 32-core/Thread count maximum

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D (16 Core / 32 Threads)
Intel 285K Ultra 9 (24 Core / 24 Threads)

When you are getting into 64 cores, you are starting to move into Threadripper and server territory.
Only an Idea, but probably a better pricing structure..
Anybody using more than 3x PCs and 32 cores per CPU is probably a Pro user.

Or even make it more restrictive, for instance, a maximum of 16 cores per node on a Free plan. This means that if someone is using Docker containers on a Threadripper and has 3x Nodes running, they still cannot utilise all their cores without a Pro plan.

This would make it simpler to explain the pricing structure.. If you use more than 3x nodes and 16x CPU cores per node, I need a Pro plan. 3x16 = Maximum 48 Cores across 3x Nodes..

Many people are buying the Pro plan, realising it doesn't provide them with anything useful and cancelling..

For instance, if I'm running a cluster of more than 3x encoding servers running a node each.. I need a pro plan.. If I buy a Threadripper with 64 cores and want to utilise all cores, I need a Pro plan..

Simple, easy-to-understand pricing structure.. This actually provides you with a clear benefit as a Pro user while allowing Home users full use of their hardware.

The way it currently stands, I could run 10x nodes on a "ScaleMP Cluster", running 32,000 cores per machine in a swarm, to a total of 320,000 CPU tasks running under the Free plan, without having to buy the Pro plan 😂
(vSMP Foundation scales up to 2 PB of memory and up to 32,768 CPUs. per VM)

The Unmapped Nodes also don't make sense. A Home user wants simplicity, a Pro user wants customisability..
Unmapped nodes are slower but easier to set up at home.. The Free plan should only include Unmapped nodes; the Pro plan should have the ability to map nodes to Drive Locations and speed up the encoding on a shared Network cluster.

FFMPEG batch, their default is similar to the "Unmapped nodes" on Tdarr. Each PC downloads a copy of the file over the Network to the local storage (Network File Caching), completes the encoding of the file, and then sends the complete file back to the Network location. This is simpler for home users, but is also network-intensive as a 1x 3GB file would use 5GB of network bandwidth sending the file backwards and forwards; this should be the default for home users.. This would work well with only 3x nodes on a Home router; any more would probably saturate the network. Pro users with a Fibre Channel network wouldn't have this problem and would probably set up network drive translation, speeding up encoding and network efficiency..

I could set up Network mapping and set up a LUN and Drive Translation for my Windows / Linux / Docker containers, but because I'm using it for Home use, to encode a few files now and again, that is more a Pro user feature in my eyes..

Obviously, you don't have to listen to me, it just makes more sense in my eyes.. Have the easy-to-use features for Home users and the more advanced features for the Pro accounts.