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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by david_allison »

Hamuko wrote: post #79
deckar01 wrote: post #21

If you appreciate open source maintainers, detect when users are opening pull requests without human review and stop them. Feel free to keep burning their tokens, just stop making pull requests.

Yeah, I think a lot of open-source maintainers would rather have some kind of an anti-slop filter than a six-month trial. All of my GitHub projects are tiny so I haven't had to encounter it, but I've heard that some projects are absolutely swamped in crap.

As an eligible maintainer: absolutely.

In the past week (besides the constant slop), there are models which have misattributed the copyright of new files to me, and stripped my copyright from existing files. It's sapping up time, energy and motivation.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by nickjj »

It's weird to make it 6 months only because it sends a message of, "Thank you for dedicating 5-10+ years building up a very popular open source project. In return we believe this is worth exactly $1,200 (6 x $200) in credits". Especially since they are scraping all of our work and profiting from it directly without acknowledgement or compensation -- past, present and future indefinitely.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by babarock »

> You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads.

I've been an open source maintainer of one of the biggest open source projects in the world[1], and it wouldn't fill any of these requirements. Anybody else hates it that now "open source" is conflated with Github (a private company, itself not open source) popularity?

[1]: https://www.openstack.org/

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by johnfn »

babarock wrote: post #133

> You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. I've been an open source maintainer of one of the biggest open source projects in the world[1], and it wouldn't fill any of these requirements. Anybody else hates it that now "open source" is conflated with Github (a private company, itself not open source) popularity? [1]: https://www.openstack.o…

This seems pretty explicitly to fit your case:

> Don't quite fit the criteria If you maintain something the ecosystem quietly depends on, apply anyway and tell us about it.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

#135

Post by elefanten »

babarock wrote: post #133

> You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. I've been an open source maintainer of one of the biggest open source projects in the world[1], and it wouldn't fill any of these requirements. Anybody else hates it that now "open source" is conflated with Github (a private company, itself not open source) popularity? [1]: https://www.openstack.o…

Maybe worth asking for anyway? They might just be setting metrics based on the most popular ways of measuring but if they care about the spirit of the offer it would make sense for them to be flexible with the letter of the requirements.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by upmind »

johnfn wrote: post #134
babarock wrote: post #133

> You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. I've been an open source maintainer of one of the biggest open source projects in the world[1], and it wouldn't fill any of these requirements. Anybody else hates it that now "open source" is conflated with Github (a private company, itself not open source) popularity? [1]: https://www.openstack.o…

This seems pretty explicitly to fit your case: > Don't quite fit the criteria If you maintain something the ecosystem quietly depends on, apply anyway and tell us about it.

Interesting that they didn't read a single sentence below their quoted one... Or they just wanted an excuse to hate on GitHub

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by recursive »

flaviolivolsi wrote: post #74
Ntrails wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> automatically kicking a user off would also probably be bad. No. "Sorry, subscription has expired, please re-up your account" is an extremely reasonable UX. The whole "free period but we'll auto bill you after" is a shitty dark pattern that mostly exists to extract value from life admin errors. The people who got enough value to justify the cost would've paid anyway .

Or you can just add a reminder before the free period expires

You can do that, but that's a dark pattern.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

#139

Post by upmind »

unvalley wrote: post #114

Anthropic’s models have almost certainly gorged on an enormous amount of OSS, and if they think they can settle that debt with only six months of perks for the maintainers who’ve kept that ecosystem alive, it comes across as pretty arrogant.

6mo is so low, from the title I thought it'd be unlimited tbh especially considering they'll continue to crawl the content 6mo in the future

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

#140

Post by upmind »

nickjj wrote: post #132

It's weird to make it 6 months only because it sends a message of, "Thank you for dedicating 5-10+ years building up a very popular open source project. In return we believe this is worth exactly $1,200 (6 x $200) in credits". Especially since they are scraping all of our work and profiting from it directly without acknowledgement or compensation -- past, present and future indefinitely.

Yep agreed, this isn't a nice thing they're doing, it's just a ploy for more customers. Shame.
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