MDN Plus

Post by manigandham » Sun, May 30, 2021, 3:00 AM UTC

015a wrote: post #115

Zababa wrote: post #37

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I don't really understand how offering better content against money is worse than asking for money regularly like Wikipedia does (especially when they seem to just consume more and more money).

Because there are tons of people who cannot pay for services like this (lower class, students, third-world countries, etc), and learning how to build and deploy technology is powerful leverage to improving their quality of life.

There's much more to technology than websites. Those people have more important issues to worry about than access to MDN and they're not the responsibility of Mozilla either.

Post by sequoia » Mon, May 31, 2021, 3:53 AM UTC

utucuro wrote: post #210

sequoia wrote: post #122

I wish they’d clarify if the money is used to support MDN or not. I wouldn’t be opposed to supporting MDN patreon style, and if it comes with “perks” like articles, sure, why not. But I would do this to support MDNs core documentation , not because I’m dying for technical deep dives. That said $10/mo is a bit steep for me. And in any event, if they don’t make explicit that the money goes to support MDN upkeep and dev…

They do clarify that with the following sentence: "We want to provide extra value through premium content and features to help make MDN self-sustaining, on a completely opt-in basis." But then again, once they have the money, they are free to do what they want with it. Marketing is not binding. It all comes down to this: Do you trust Mozilla?

That’s too vague. That could mean some money goes to MDN (enough “to make it self-sustaining”) and the rest goes to other Mozilla stuff.

I would believe Mozilla if they said “100% of the funds will go to MDN” but they don’t say that.

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