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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste - and in my personal capacity - I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site. With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Clo…

> but I would not use Anubis unless I could disable the imagery, and every time I see it on another site, I think: "hm. weird. whose branding is this?"

They do offer an unbranded version, botstopper. It is part of their commercial offering [0] and intended for "professional" environments

[0]: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

#74
post #60

With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste - and in my personal capacity - I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site. With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Clo…

I for one don't see anything wrong with anime characters, though I suppose neither of us are likely to change our minds.

"sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne" != "wrong"

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

#75
post #72
post #60

With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste - and in my personal capacity - I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site. With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Clo…

> but I would not use Anubis unless I could disable the imagery, and every time I see it on another site, I think: "hm. weird. whose branding is this?" They do offer an unbranded version, botstopper. It is part of their commercial offering [0] and intended for "professional" environments [0]: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

Can't fault the logic. Will never use it if that's part of what they've chosen to paywall.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

#76
post #60

With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste - and in my personal capacity - I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site. With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Clo…

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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

#77
post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's anubis, an anti web crawler tool [0] [0]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Why is the anubis mascot an anime girl?

To entice people to support the project. See this comment for a breakdown of the finances of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926915

Once I reach the $5000 per month goal across all funding platforms, features currently exclusive to the private fork of Anubis for corpos (including changing the images and soon HTML templating support: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper) will be merged into the open source repo.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

#78
post #60

With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste - and in my personal capacity - I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site. With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Clo…

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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

#79
post #60

With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste - and in my personal capacity - I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site. With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Clo…

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okay

EDIT: zig is very cool thank you

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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post #60

With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste - and in my personal capacity - I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site. With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Clo…

I respect the expression of individual taste, but it suggests strongly that the platform has not reached professional maturity.
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