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..the takeaway here is that the services provided by SourceForge/Github are too important to its users to be ad-supported. Why muddy the waters like that? The
by tgrass 14y ago
..the takeaway here is that the services provided by SourceForge/Github are too important to its users to be ad-supported.
Why muddy the waters like that? The takeaway is that the incentives a company adopts are consequential and will define the culture and the product.
- zem 14y agoyeah, "importance" was a needless distraction from the main point, which was that sourceforge and later twitter undeniably crappified their user and ecosystem experience in pursuit of ad pennies.
- fusiongyro 14y agoBecause this is a pitch. I read it as: the takeaway here is that the services provided by SourceForge/Github are too important to its users [and me and app.net] to be ad-supported.