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That anime gating is very jarring, thought I clicked on the wrong link and clicked back.
by dmix 1y ago
That anime gating is very jarring, thought I clicked on the wrong link and clicked back.
- NegativeK 1y agoAnubis has been around for almost a year now, but it's also not particularly relevant to the content of the email thread.
- veltas 1y agoIt's particularly jarring to basically every site I've seen it on which is usually some serious and professional looking open source site. I wonder why nobody configures this, is this not something that they can configure themselves to a more relevant image, like the GCC logo or something?
- 3836293648 1y agoBecause that's the difference between the paid and free versions
- 1718627440 1y agoI think they might also want to bring attention to the problem and advertise for an open-source solution.
- maleldil 1y agoAnubis is open-source (MIT).
- Tyr42 1y agoThat's the paid upgrade for "enterprise" level quality.
- andsoitis 1y agoAnubis asks that you don’t change the logo and if you want to, pay them: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/funding/ https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/funding/
- renewiltord 1y agoI’m sure if you want you can offer to pay like $500/mo on their behalf and they’ll change it for everyone.
- gessha 1y agoFire up your LLM of choice and make a web extension to make it more presentable. Remove the logo, generate one, do whatever you want. The world is your playground, don’t let it “jarr” you with stuff.
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- 1718627440 1y agoAnubis is a bit annoying over crappy internet connections, especially in front of a webpage that would work quite well in this case otherwise, but it still performs way better than Cloudflare in this regard.
- f1refly 1y agoRight? I hope it never goes away, we should make the web more fun instead of sad and clean!
- suby 1y agoI think if you were to poll people, a significant portion would be repulsed by this catgirl aesthetic, or (though this isn't the case for Anubis) the cliche inappropriately dressed inappropriately young anime characters dawned as mascots in an ever increasing number of projects. People can do whatever they want with their projects, but I feel like the people who like this crap perhaps don't understand how repulsive it is to a large number of people. Personally it creeps me out.
- _vqpz 1y agoI'm not repulsed by it but I do wish the people that forced this stuff into their software/hardware realized how juvenile it makes their product look. There's a decent cheap Chinese pair of Bluetooth earbuds on Amazon that's been very popular among audiophiles but the feedback sounds are an anime girl making noises and there's no way to turn it off so I lost interest in purchasing them.
- makemake_kbo 1y agowell for the bluetooth headphones i dont think you were the target demographic. but open source generally isnt treated as a product. its just a bunch of volunteers having fun writing code. its natural that they will include their other interests in it in some way because it makes working on a project more fun. first impressions matter a lot, but i dont think foss projects should optimize for that instead of having fun.
- thoroughburro 1y ago> inappropriately dressed How do you think Anubis should dress?
- andsoitis 1y ago
- 1718627440 1y agoI wouldn't have known that this is anime, if not for all the HN comments pointing that out.
- falcor84 1y agoSee also discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962529
- dmix 1y agoSo some sort of viral marketing by using weird images
- tr45872267 1y agoMany people have said they don't like it, and all that did is make its supporters even happier that it's there, because it makes them feel special is some strange way.
- MangoToupe 1y agoWho cares tbh
- wyldfire 1y agoRecently, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962529
- superkuh 1y agoAnubis is significantly less jarring than cloudflare blocks preventing any access at all. At least Anubis lets me read the content of pages. Cloudflare is so bleeding edge and commercial they do not care about broad brower support (because it doesn't matter for commercial/sales). But for websites you actually want everyone to be able to load anubis is by far the best. That said, more on topic, I am really glad that C++ actually considers the implications of switching default targets and only does this every 5 years. That's a decent amount of time and longer than most distros release cycles. When a language changes significantly faster than release cycles (ie, rustc being a different compiler every 3 months) it means that distros cannot self-host if they use rust code in their software. ie, with Apt now having rust code, and Debian's release cycle being 4 years for LTS, debian's shipped rustc won't be able to compile Apt.