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Re: MDN Plus

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

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!

Are they going to rehire all the dedicated editors and staff they laid off?

Or is this really just charging money for all their now open source contributed content...

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by inbx0 » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:25 PM UTC

politelemon wrote: post #18

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.

It's a real shame that they threw away Firefox Send. It would've been a great addition to that bundle.

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by stu2b50 » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:25 PM UTC

blowski wrote: post #19

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/

That won't go to the firefox team, since the Firefox team is under the Mozilla Corporation whereas donations can only go to the Mozilla Foundation.

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by throwaway123808 » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:27 PM UTC

29athrowaway wrote: post #6

I would use this instead - Devdocs - Zeal on Linux and Windows - Dash on mac

I believe these all rely on MDN under the hood for their web docs

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by beardedetim » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

ibejoeb wrote: post #13

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.

There used to be a tool I used that just downloaded all the files of a site locally that the browser requested. Would that be enough here or are you imagining something like it also points all the links to be local and goes and saves future pages as well?

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by daveidol » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:29 PM UTC

Honestly, this is the kind of thing I like to see from Mozilla. Very straightforward, plus a way to support this valuable learning resource. I hope it generates some meaningful revenue!

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by trey-jones » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:29 PM UTC

My early April Fools prank detector is going off. No?

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by jraph » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:29 PM UTC

It seems fair enough. It won't prevent anyone from accessing the actual content and it probably makes it easy to justify paying something to MDN to employers.

In practice, if you are not paying:

- Bookmarks can most certainly easily replace the Collections feature

- you can clone the MDN repository for having the documents offline

- notifications could be computed from the commit log

and the subscription probably makes these features more convenient, at least for the notifications and the offline without actually removing rights from anybody.

Seems clever.

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by nathancahill » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:31 PM UTC

inbx0 wrote: post #22

politelemon wrote: post #18

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.

It's a real shame that they threw away Firefox Send. It would've been a great addition to that bundle.

The legal liability was too much to stomach. Look at the lawsuits against Mega.

Re: MDN Plus

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Post by bqmjjx0kac » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:35 PM UTC

beardedetim wrote: post #25

ibejoeb wrote: post #13

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.

There used to be a tool I used that just downloaded all the files of a site locally that the browser requested. Would that be enough here or are you imagining something like it also points all the links to be local and goes and saves future pages as well?

Wget?