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Re: MDN Plus

#11

Post by kristianpaul » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:21 PM UTC

Well written and updated documentation is hard to find these days, like the Arch Linux Wiki

Re: MDN Plus

#12

Post by paxys » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:21 PM UTC

nightski wrote: post #10

jefftk wrote: post #3

Everyone who's been saying "I wish they would just charge money for this", here's your chance to put your money where your mouth is!

I'll pay. But I kind of wish they were laser focused on just the content and not obligated to deliver useless pay for features.

The content isn't (and shouldn't be) paywalled. There's no option but to add other paid features around it, which someone users may find useless but others maybe won't. You could also always just treat it as a monthly donation and not use any of it.

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by ibejoeb » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:22 PM UTC

I suppose offline access is nice. I think I'd rather pay for the ability to just download the whole site in some officially supported way. Priming a PWA baked into browser storage is a little roundabout. I want it to be grepable.

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by andrew_ » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:22 PM UTC

Am I an outlier or does their head of product not really appear to have a bead on what developers actually want?

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by barrenko » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:22 PM UTC

There is some space to earn money by providing "curriculum" for self-taught devs.

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by kingcharles » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:22 PM UTC

All these features are available using other existing tools. This is just a nudge to donate to a worthy cause.

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by shaunpersad » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:22 PM UTC

codeptualize wrote: post #2

Nice features, it seems they actually found some useful things. I like the notifications. Too bad it isn't available here yet, I will definitely sign up when I can.

Indeed, without clicking into it, my first thought was "why would anyone pay for free documentation?", but notifications in itself are actually pretty useful for web developers to stay on top of the landscape.

I've also never downloaded a PWA before, but using it for docs actually makes a lot of sense. I like to look things up on my phone as I think about them throughout the day when I'm not at the computer, and a PWA should make this a lot faster and reliable.

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by politelemon » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:22 PM UTC

Mozilla ought to consider offering a bundle, at the moment they have several scattered offerings.

Mozilla VPN (Mullvad)

Firefox Relay

MDN Plus

Mozilla Pocket Premium

Any others?

Though I can see why it's currently scattered, it's not necessary that a VPN user cares about MDN or Pocket.

Re: MDN Plus

#19

Post by blowski » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:23 PM UTC

Shadonototra wrote: post #5

What a cash grab Firefox devs should quit this sinking ship ASAP, fork the browser and setup some sort of developer funds like blender/krita/gimp/godot and many other I'll be happy to donate directly to the firefox team without having to go through this mafia

https://donate.mozilla.org/en-GB/

Re: MDN Plus

#20

Post by l30n4da5 » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

Collections seems completely redundant when we have the ability to use favorites/bookmarks within our browser.

Unless i'm missing something that makes collections significantly different/better.