Enable "donate custom amount" features by default

[sethmlarson]

By default both the "one-time custom amount" and "monthly custom amount" are unticked which means most sponsors only accept the minimum tier that they've customized. This results in many sponsors not accepting anything below $5 as I've only seen a few people that have a minimum tier of $1.

By changing these options to be on by default lots of good things happen:

• Countries which have unfavorable conversion rates between the donator currency and USD for example can support people they want more freely without donating more than they're comfortable with.
• People who want to sponsor a certain amount that doesn't correspond with a tier can sponsor for any amount they choose and get the benefits of whatever tier is less than or equal to their sponsorship amount. Means more money for recipients!
• I wasn't even aware you couldn't donate custom amounts by default until I received a message from someone about it and they promptly sponsored me after I enabled it. How many other cases like this exist where the other person doesn't reach out? Probably missing out on a lot of sponsors!

An alternate suggestion is to alert the user that their custom amounts are disabled meaning the minimum sponsorship they'll accept is X where X is the least expensive sponsorship tier they've configured.

[cheshire137]

Hi there! I'm a dev on the Sponsors team, and we agree with you. We're enabling custom amounts by default on October 3, 2022 -- see https://github.blog/changelog/2022-09-13-github-sponsors-change-notice-for-the-custom-amount-setting/.

[Hexstream]

Ideally, there should be a way to preemptively opt-out of custom tiers before October 3.

I simply DO NOT need custom tiers given my extensive tier system, and it would uglify my donations log...

[Hexstream]

The announcements were not clear at all, I thought that Custom Amounts would be forcibly enabled on 3 october 2022 (today) but that we could just disable it after that, since it was said that they would be enabled "by default".

In fact, it is now impossible to disable Custom Amounts, which to me is completely ridiculous.

I set the Minimum Custom Amount to my biggest tier (10000$) as a workaround,
but this is just plain ridiculous, and gratuitously uglifies the UI for everyone.

Please make it possible to disable custom amounts again!!