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It seems that discarding your community once you have made enough money is trending.
by rnhmjoj 9y ago
It seems that discarding your community once you have made enough money is trending.
- matt4077 9y agoHow does this sort of conspiracy theory make any sense in this context? Or even in general? If they are making so much money, why would they end the program?
- rnhmjoj 9y agoI don't know, the whole post reads like a "So long, and thanks for all the fish" to me. They don't need a community anymore because they got bigger and at this point it's just easier to close it rather than having employees taking care of the user contributions. Reddit has just pulled the plug to all their open source repositories. This will make it harder to develop and keep third party clients updated, like the ones without ads for example.
- carussell 9y agoTo be fair, the comment from DuckDuckGo in the Reddit thread[1] says that they will continue to put resources into it ("staff are still improving the Instant Answers we have, and will create any new Instant Answers we see are needed"). Which means the only change really happening here is to shut off the contributions that DDG receives from others for free, which doesn't really make sense as a business decision, either. On the other hand, if you view it as an announcement that they're going to be taking Instant Answers closed source to keep future changes in-house, then it makes sense. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/6ymjj8/duckduckhack_is_now_in_maintenance_mode/dmq6ilk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/6ymjj8/duckduck...
- tagawa 9y agoJust to clarify, the Instant Answers will remain open source on GitHub and maintained in public. Disclaimer: DuckDuckGo staff
- kodfodrasz 9y agoI'm not sure how you reached this conclusion from this news, given some insider infos from other comments. Maybe you have a relevant story to tell about DDG?