So, the question popped up

[Renegade]

Add a donate button, raise money to hire a programmer to do exactly that.

ROFL
Have you seen the news thread?
After all the bitching in here, all the insistence of the oh-so-great importance to and support by the community, there were exactly three comments by non-team members, all of them by people who had posted in this thread before.
Not just that, but even though everybody in here demanded updates and was crying to know what was going on, it took almost 29 hours for a non-team member to comment on the news post they were so desperately fighting for, and by now, the thread's been dead for almost two days.

To put it differently: The exact same people who fought for having a news post could barely bring themselves to acknowledge it once they had it, and no one else gave any indication they even cared.
The only acknowledgement on PPM, for example, was also posted by a team member of us.

...and you're telling me not only to put up a donation button, but to hire a goddamn programmer from the donations? You're delusional.
I'd get more donations parking my ass downtown and asking random strangers for money.

I mean, look at you: You actually cared enough to post, which makes you part of a very, very small minority, and yet, you couldn't even be arsed to enter a nickname, let alone to properly quote the post you were replying to.

You are a thousand percent more active than the overwhelmingly large majority of the community, and you still only did the utterly bare minimum required to make your point. And you want me to believe we'd make the several thousand dollars in donations necessary to hire a programmer?

"Unlikely" would be more than an understatement.

Personally I never use chats because either a) they're so fast it's impossible to keep up (hyper-active chats) or b) they're deader than a burnt tree. I've never met a middle ground.

Well, it is how it is - you can either follow a conversation when it happens, or wait for the summary to appear.
If you choose, on your very own accord, not to do the former, then you have only yourself to blame for being out of the loop.