That doesn’t really solve the problem. The problem arises when he presents the product. It’s a very unserious and unprofessional image that professionals see immediately when OP shows them the tool, which causes the project not to be taken seriously. Which is fine, because it’s not really a professional product, and isn’t trying to be. OP should probably just stop trying to present it as such. Any company is going to want something more common with funding and technical support anyway. Most likely what just about everyone else uses (Cloudflare).
fdnomad@programming.dev 19 hours ago
Well you can pay 50 USD / month to remove the anime jackal girl and apply your own branding. I think its a fair system: hobby & FOSS projects don’t have to mind being cringe and profit-oriented operations that need to look professional can spare some of their profit for this cool service.
artyom@piefed.social 17 hours ago
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Explain the business strategy
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Open-Source sadly shooting itself in the foot again because of hills they choose to die on.
rbos@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago Alternately, Super Serious humourless douchebags pretending to be All Grown Up and overlooking powerful functionality because they don’t like the picture on the box.
Some people need to get over their obsession with appearance and face.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 15 hours ago
The picture on the box matters, its absurd thinking it doesn’t
Reducto absurdum: Would you buy a car with a big dick and balls for a logo, but you can pay extra to have it removed?
DaGeek247@fedia.io 14 hours ago Well, only if you assume the end goal is to make profit from the various businesses out there.
hraegsvelmir@ani.social 9 hours ago
Is it really shooting itself in the foot, though? There are plenty of FOSS projects that companies benefit from and never contribute back to, either monetarily, or in the form of writing code. They provide an easy option to make it look more professional while helping to support the project, and you could always fork it and do what you need to with your fork. The idea that developers should do a thankless job to maintain their software in a way that complies with random corporate policies in order to be more widely adopted strikes me as setting up devs to burn out and crash from having all the joy ground out of their projects for them.
UNESCO, the Wikimedia foundation and other major organizations have already implemented it and gotten onboard, so I would suggest your coworkers are being a bit foolish in completely disregarding it because of a single mascot image that has a clear option to replace. The Dev is just saving themselves aggravation from people that were going to make endless demands of them, but most likely balk at actually supporting the project to enable features that only matter to their organization, but not to the Dev themselves or others.
- rbos@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
finger touch grep awk cat pip, Red Hat…
Unix. GNU.
Dumb jokes and weird branding kinda comes with the package. People have fun.
I think ‘get over it’ is a pretty reasonable take, overall.
frongt@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Anubis provides a non-cutesy version. The only one dying on a hill here is you guys refusing to consider it.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 12 hours ago It’s not cringe :(
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
As a millennial parent to teenage girls who eat this shit up, IMO, it is very cringe.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 19 hours ago
https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper That URL has all the same issues I mention in my post
If I could send them to eg. botstopper.com where there is no mascot to be found, then that would be a solution.
Gladaed@feddit.org 18 hours ago
I feel like you didn’t understand what they are saying. That is the page of their monetization policy, not a demo.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 16 hours ago
People shouldn’t have to jump through that many hoops to recommend something, that’s ridiculous
- DaGeek247@fedia.io 9 hours ago
People shouldn't have to jump through that many hoops to recommend something, that's ridiculous
True, but only for a commercial offering.
False, for free or open source software. Makemkv is the absolute best tool for ripping DVDs and bluerays. It requires being compiled from source in order to be used for free. Anubis charges 50/month to change the branding. These both serve the same purpose; a mild speedbump to encourage paying for the work of the developer.
Anubis' direct competitor will straight up hold your business hostage and blackmail your company for money when they feel like they can get away with it.
The 'ridiculous hoops to jump through' are there for the developers benefit, and are incredibly mild compared to most every other commercial offering. I just don't see why it matters so much that anubis must change in this way.
Gladaed@feddit.org 16 hours ago
The reaction you are describing is not reasonable and large, reputable websites just use Anubis.
Either you are a creep or otherwise come off as creepy due to Audhd things or unwashedness and hence ellicit this reaction or you have a very weird work culture with people being far removed from tech. I presume it is the latter. Hence giving a simple recommendation with condensed information is much more appropriate than just dropping a link and posing a significant challenge to the people in charge. Being scared of being perceived as creepy may also cause you to be perceived as creepy. A potentially great way to phrase it is stating: “look, here is a great, free and secure tool to do this. They come with a weird anime mascot to encourage commercial customers to pay for their software while being free for private and open source users. It’s just 50 Bucks to remove this so we can just do that. If we don’t feel like paying for this we also could just use Anubis directly, but I feel like we should go with their commercial offering.”
derpgon@programming.dev 19 hours ago
I am pretty sure the software is self hosted. So what is the issue?
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
being cringe
magnue@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Kinda a genius way to deliver a free service to individuals but force companies to pay for it. Just bung some really cringe pic there…