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Sure, but isn't that a huge chunk of the web. Full of small games, services and tools that are only used by a handful of people, but those people enjoyed that t
by ehsankia 9y ago
Sure, but isn't that a huge chunk of the web. Full of small games, services and tools that are only used by a handful of people, but those people enjoyed that thing. Just because it's niche doesn't mean it's useless. Just because Facebook has 10 orders of magnitude more users doesn't mean it's 10 orders of magnitude more useful.
There are plenty of devs out there who were running things probably at a loss, but for the sake of their community and users. Sure a few bug fixes here and there was a pain, but it was so small that it was worth it to make a couple people happy. Now they have one big reason to not keep it up.
- Faark 9y agoA house seems like a good analogy... if the owner isn't willing to do maintenance, he'll probably fence it of to avoid fines and liability. A local group might loose their meeting spot, but we still usually consider it worth it. Our dependency on services that will go away is a problem, but I'd prefer we'd search for different ways to preserve software once unmaintained. Government requires authors to send a few copies of books&newspapers to libraries... maybe something like that with source code?