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Will this actually let us fund Firefox development, or is it another way to line the pockets of the wildly overpaid Mozilla Foundation executives? Sorry to be so negative, but as a long-time Firefox fan, I despair at the disparity between the funding for the Firefox team vs the executive team
https://www.comparably.com/companies/mozilla/executive-salar...
English Summary: Free MDN isn't going away. MDN Plus is a premium content service that will offer deep dives into technical topics. The service was tested over the summer. Additional announced features include bookmarking across all of MDN, commenting, offline browsing, and themes. Price: USD10/month or USD100/year. Time frame: March 2022
Will this actually let us fund Firefox development, or is it another way to line the pockets of the wildly overpaid Mozilla Foundation executives? Sorry to be so negative, but as a long-time Firefox fan, I despair at the disparity between the funding for the Firefox team vs the executive team
https://www.comparably.com/companies/mozilla/executive-salar...
source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/endangered-firefox-the-state-o...
I, for one, am encouraged to see Mozilla try and create new revenue streams. I hope I am not the lone positive voice in the thread - it does seem no company gets quite the same level of criticism as Mozilla on HN
English Summary: Free MDN isn't going away. MDN Plus is a premium content service that will offer deep dives into technical topics. The service was tested over the summer. Additional announced features include bookmarking across all of MDN, commenting, offline browsing, and themes. Price: USD10/month or USD100/year. Time frame: March 2022
I'm torn about this initiative. MDN should be governed by a foundation that can be funded directly , with content that is accessible for all. By introducing a paid service with private content, it will reduce incentives to contribute insightful documentation and guides to the free version.
Having a big paying community will drive more free content, as both the paying and free customers benefit from it.
If free content start sucking, less people sign up.
Plus, some content just isn't worth privatizing, like documentation.
> "Monthly articles with special depth on specific topics from industry experts as well as features to get more out of the MDN Web Docs" ... "includes the ability to use the MDN Web Docs offline, to create your own personal collection that you can access from any device, to be notified of changes to certain articles, and themes" I'm not particularly impressed. Does anyone really want to pay for the modern version of…
Back when I was managing one of the security teams at Mozilla there was an attempt to build out some revenue diversification options, and one of the areas I was involved with was developer services, basically offering paid, hosted versions of the open source tools we were already building and using (web compat, security and testing services, etc) that could be used by developers. It never got off the ground, and the lack of traction was one of the reasons I left; I view my failure to succeed in my attempts there as one my biggest professional let downs :(
I want to think that it sounds like some of Mozilla's leadership has finally gotten out of the way of the folks that are doing awesome work, and it makes me hopeful for the future of the project and the Mozilla mission.
Congrats to the teams behind these services!
I, for one, am encouraged to see Mozilla try and create new revenue streams. I hope I am not the lone positive voice in the thread - it does seem no company gets quite the same level of criticism as Mozilla on HN
That's what happens when you go around with a holier-than-thou attitude: they set high standars for the industry when they themselves fail to meet those standards every time.
I don't think I would be interested in the content that much (unless they go way beyond the usual FE articles), but I'll happily pay $100 a year in support of MDN/Firefox.
Even though I don't use Firefox it has an important role imo. I use MDN almost daily and I get lots of value out of it. I fully support them trying out new revenue streams.