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I don't really understand the negativity towards scrolytelling in other comments here. They are providing a hosting service and product, based on Pageflow. Whi
by the_duke 10y ago
I don't really understand the negativity towards scrolytelling in other comments here.
They are providing a hosting service and product, based on Pageflow. Which is mentioned right on it's homepage!
They contacted Al Jazeera directly and were brushed off (can easily happen in a large company, doesn't imply malice).
The page would probably never have been taken down without the media coverage. And said coverage might have informed some devs about Pageflow, but it's also good publicity.
People often forget that one actually has to make money too. If you do that based on an open source product without violating any licenses, and even contribute back, why not?
They have every right to shame companies using their product without paying for it.
- hasenj 10y agoWhen I read their original story about AJ stealing their code, I thought they basically custom built the entire thing. Now I learned it was actually open source, and in my head I'm like .. lol that must be embarrassing!
- tilsammans 10y agoWe're not embarrassed, and the_duke's comment is spot on. It's not a secret we're built on Pageflow and I am the #5 overall contributor to it. We exist thanks to Pageflow and will do everything to promote it. We've referred many leads to pageflow.io. There's plenty of room for both models to happily exist!
- hasenj 10y agoMaybe include this sort of clarification in the blog post?
- bricestacey 10y agoFor anyone else that doesn't know what it means to come in fifth place: 786 commits by the lead developer, then 58, 46, 34, and finally 24 by yours truly. https://github.com/codevise/pageflow/graphs/contributors https://github.com/codevise/pageflow/graphs/contributors