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…
fdnomad@programming.dev 6 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.
magnue@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
artyom@piefed.social 5 hours ago
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).
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Open-Source sadly shooting itself in the foot again because of hills they choose to die on.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 6 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 6 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 3 hours ago
People shouldn’t have to jump through that many hoops to recommend something, that’s ridiculous
Gladaed@feddit.org 3 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 6 hours ago
I am pretty sure the software is self hosted. So what is the issue?
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 6 minutes ago
It’s not cringe :(