I just find it funny that folks try and set up Patreon account for this...and that some folks actually consider supporting it. It's a bigger waste of money than having a Premium account on Twitter.
Self-uploads are still discouraged but we don’t slap it into people’s faces anymore.
We hardly slapped it in people's faces before. It was one small section in the upload guidelines and one line in the self-upload wiki, neither of which anybody ever read, that got removed because the admins felt that there was no reason self-uploads shouldn't be treated the same as any other post. If they're discouraged, it should say that somewhere.