# How the Guardian's Supporter Revenue engineering team evolved from 2016 to 2023

DevFeed: [How the Guardian's Supporter Revenue engineering team evolved from 2016 to 2023](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/from-a-zebra-to-a-rotating-banner-how-we-stepped-up-your-ability-to-support-the-guardian-over-the-last-seven-years-19966.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.theguardian.com/info/2023/sep/12/from-a-zebra-to-a-rotating-banner-how-we-stepped-up-your-ability-to-support-the-guardian-over-the-last-seven-years>)

Author: Paul Brown (Head of Engineering)

Published: 2023-09-12T16:22:53Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Guardian](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/guardian.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [stripe](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stripe.md>)

Tags: [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [stripe](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stripe.md>)

## AI overview

The article recounts how the Guardian's Supporter Revenue engineering team evolved from a small Membership and Subscriptions group in 2016. It describes changes to Guardian support offerings, website subdomains, and projects including Zebra, Giraffe, and Stripe-based payment experiments.

## Source excerpt

Since you're here... please find somewhere comfortable to sit and read my story about the journey the Supporter Revenue team has undergone since I joined them as an Engineering Manager back in January 2016 Our readers' support is vital to the Guardian's future, and the Supporter Revenue engineering team is responsible for developing digital experiences that engage our valued supporters. We live our company values by developing in the open, using best practice technologies as much as possible, and upholding our engineering culture while we work hard to ensure digital experiences remain usable, accessible and render quickly. Back at the start of 2016, we were a small team inside a department called Digital Development, and we had a very utilitarian name: Membership and Subscriptions. Working alongside me was an agile coach, a product manager, a graphic designer, and four amazing software developers - two of which are still here but working in different areas. We all had the job of looking after two Guardian website subdomains: membership.theguardian.com and subscribe.theguardian.com. Both of these microsites have changed quite a bit: we've since closed down our membership scheme, subsumed newspaper and digital subscriptions into a "support proposition" - to give you an insight into some Guardian-speak. Continue reading...