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Re: MDN Plus

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It's a wiki (at least it used to be). A lot of people, including me, spent a lot of time and effort building up the content on the site. Not for nothing—I got an intercontinental flight, a stay in a nice hotel, and a conference ticket in a new city—but many of the people who made the developer.mozilla.org content what it is are never going to see any of that money. The MDN staff, though, some of whom are almost certa…

Are you arguing Mozilla shouldn't add paid subscription, or you're just expressing grief that you as a contributor won't see that money? You can get into MDN team and get "overcompensated" too. There must be plenty of budget after recent layoffs, right?

Neither. I'm responding to your comment.

Re: MDN Plus

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The value is that they've documented every front-end DOM api for you and done a lot of leg work for free for years. This will fund their efforts and they do more than just web, they've also been adding documentation on doing back-end web development as well. I'm sure the more subscribers they get, the more they can add. I sincerely hope MDN keeps the majority of the income from these efforts. For front-end work I ski…

>The value is that they've documented every front-end DOM api for you and done a lot of leg work for free for years. If that's the value, why don't they lead with that and leave the rest out?

Marketing people aren't necessarily developers. This is a case where you should let a sane developer do the marketing.
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