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So do some smaller projects.
Culturally hosting yourself is one of the key elements of the hacker ethos.
It's cool to see such an impactful project choose sovereignty. I hope more projects follow their example. If you're a backbone-of-the-internet project like FFmpeg is, living on GitHub seems horrible. You will be subjected to thousands of low quality pull requests and issues from people searching for typos to fix, adding a line of white space for a contrived reason, or similar nonsense changes. Just so they can put "F…
My only contribution to node-grpc fixed missing quotes, but only because that produced real crashes.
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What an ingenious approach for a sustainable OSS project: serve the free version with playful art that you enjoy and that expresses your individuality, but which some people are bound to find triggering/improper; sell a bland lifeless corporate edition to those people.
> some others would find triggering/improper I guess the main point is branding clash if you're a large company website (most companies care a lot about how their brand is shown, if they care about spacing/padding around their logo they also care about what pictures are shown when joining), hopefully nobody is triggered by this kind of art. (though resentment could build up if actual humans get frequently unexpectedl…
The resentment point is a fair one! If that happens and maintainers care about public perception of the mascot, I can imagine them wanting to change it somewhat.
> hopefully nobody is triggered by this kind of art
I’ve known at least one person who genuinely seemed triggered by anime-like visual style.
It's cool to see such an impactful project choose sovereignty. I hope more projects follow their example. If you're a backbone-of-the-internet project like FFmpeg is, living on GitHub seems horrible. You will be subjected to thousands of low quality pull requests and issues from people searching for typos to fix, adding a line of white space for a contrived reason, or similar nonsense changes. Just so they can put "F…
Typos may be quite impactful, don't discount them. My only contribution to node-grpc fixed missing quotes, but only because that produced real crashes.
OK, not GitHub "because Microsoft". But is there any particular reason why Forgejo and not GitLab, Gitea, or Gogs? I'm not throwing shade at Forgejo or anything like that, I'm genuinely curious if there's anything about Forgejo that made it a better alternative than the other options.
Forejo is/was a soft fork of Gitea due to some licensing / trademark bruhaha that I think got blown somewhat out of proportion. (And Gitea was famous for using Github instead of dogfooding their own software, which I've always thought was a pretty strange choice). I'm not familiar enough with the development roadmap of both teams to make a good call on whether following the fork is a good idea or not, but I know a lo…
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It has simply been normalized and for a lot of smaller scale sites, that this was first made for, being a little less professional isn't a problem. But for situations where a company simply won't use Anubis because of its branding then they do sell a unbranded version. https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper
What an ingenious approach for a sustainable OSS project: serve the free version with playful art that you enjoy and that expresses your individuality, but which some people are bound to find triggering/improper; sell a bland lifeless corporate edition to those people.
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That's good news. That'll make me consider using Anubis. Thanks for fighting the AI bots. You get some hate for this anime girl image but this paid white label thing is a good idea I think. It's nice we have alternative ways of funding free software that doesn't involve ads and tracking and thank you for choosing this path.
There's a solid strategy behind it: give people what they want with a flaw that makes it unviable for corpos. Then sell the cure. I remember being told that monetization model as a joke and figured this would be one way to test it. The horrifying part in my book is that Anubis is a relative success story as far as open source funding goes, and it's barely a third of what a junior level software developer makes. It's…
A third of a junior salary is not much but I guess it could help with at least turning a full time position into part time.
> I remember being told that monetization model as a joke and figured this would be one way to test it
Ah ah. Awesome.
It has happened to me once or twice that I jokingly share an idea, and it gets picked up seriously (in a professional setting). "But it was a joke! Too late. Oh no." - I guess it's not too bad in the end and shouldn't be fighted too hard. I guess I'll just make sure that if the idea is horrible, I don't make the joke if I think people around could seriously pick it up.
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…
My point is that people get used to such things, and stop to even notice.
Opening this site I get "Oh Noes! Invalid Response" with an anime girl. Tried refreshing, opening in a private windows, same thing. EDIT: tried it again and got to "Making sure you're not a bot" with the same cringey anime girl, then the site loaded without CSS. Tried one more time, finally it loaded. EDIT 2: clicked on a link and I'm back to "Oh Noes!..." .
I understand where they’re coming from with all the choices made, but honestly I suspect the anubis anime girl and associated sporadic failures (that I’ve seen, too, despite having a rather standard environment) functioning as a filtering mechanism that attracts a certain in-crowd person and makes a lot of others uninterested in staying around, and I think that’s intentional.