TL;DR The Ubuntu MATE Patreon will be shut down in the next 24 hours or so.
I’d like to extend my thanks to everyone who contributed over the years. The contributions have helped fund UBuntu MATE and MATE Desktop infrastructure and sponsored development that wouldn’t have happened without your support 🙇♂️
I’ve been a bit tied up with family stuff over the last week, but I’m going to contact the developers and community contributors who’ve expressed interest in maintaining Ubuntu MATE and figure out how to start handing things over. This will include handing over domains and the DNS registrar for mate-desktop to the upstream project, and it is something Ubuntu MATE has been funding for years.