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I wish they'd ease up on the whole "don't change the logo without paying us" thing. The furry anime character is a turnoff for anyone with a brand or personal i

I wish they'd ease up on the whole "don't change the logo without paying us" thing. The furry anime character is a turnoff for anyone with a brand or personal image that doesn't mesh with those subcultures.

gfaster 2mo ago
I think that's partly why they do it? If you care about that, you should pay?
- smolder 2mo ago
  Or just have an LLM write the same thing for next to nothing...
- youaremidwit 2mo ago
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inigyou 2mo ago
They're not stopping you. They're asking you politely not to.
teddyh 2mo ago
If you have a brand or personal image that you are investing in, you can surely afford to invest in paying for a branded version of Anubis.
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righthand 2mo ago
You wish they'd give your preferable imagery for free and not make you feel bad for using their free software for personal gain. Your subculture is irrelevant and not special.
1bpp 2mo ago
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- tsunamifury 2mo ago
  I hope I’m missing the sarcasm here…
pc86 2mo ago
It's MIT licensed, you are free to do whatever you want to it, including removing the logo. They're basically just saying "we'd prefer you didn't do this, but we're not preventing you from doing it."
altairprime 2mo ago
> is a turnoff for anyone with a brand or personal image that doesn't mesh with those subcultures. Most people either don’t know or don’t care about “those subcultures”. I bet a lot of older people think it’s a cartoon figure of Betty Boop (nurse) and miss the furry bit since it appears and disappears quickly. Most people also don’t have a brand. So it seems like you’re describing a concern that only affects a tiny fraction of people: - Not interested in paying for custom branding, so obviously not a corporation or influencer - Dislikes cartoons - Aware of, and hostile towards, “furry” subculture That has to be an exceedingly small fraction of potential users of Anubis, and given how much businesses and branders will pay to custom-brand something, I’d counsel them to stay the course. Sure, a few never-payers will never pay, but they wouldn’t have anyways, so they can cope with Nurse Betty or look elsewhere for a competing free product. If you think about this in physical market square terms — in other words, a bazaar — it seems horrendously rude to complain about a shop logo sticker on a free product handed out to anyone that walks up and asks for it. If you want it white-labeled so you can write your own name/logo on it, you pay for the privilege of displacing their name with yours. But you don’t stand there and loudly complain that their shop mascot has dog ears while holding a freebie bag of product, without losing the respect of everyone who hears you doing so.
vablings 2mo ago
It's actually a genius idea. If you are someone who the professional presentation of not having an anime girl on the loading page is required, then you can afford to fork over the cash to fund development.
- zuzululu 2mo ago
  I guess the disconnect here is a bunch of HN'ers believing professional companies and websites want to attach their branding to a sexualized anime character and that they are willing to pay to remove it. Which one then wonders why they would install it in the first place.
  - snailmailman 2mo ago
    Sexualized? It’s just a cartoon/anime character holding a magnifying glass
    - cromka 2mo ago
      In any case, if you run a professional website, this immediately comes off as juvenile and/or amateurish. And am y people just assume it's part of your website.
      - xena 2mo ago
        Money can be used to purchase goods or services, such as an unbranded version.
        zuzululu 2mo ago
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        krapp 2mo ago
        There is absolutely nothing sexualized about the Anubis mascot.
ryan_n 2mo ago
You just discovered their business model congrats.
RobotToaster 2mo ago
haproxy-protection is an alternative.
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peter_stokes 2mo ago
you really revved the weebs with this one
- duskdozer 2mo ago
  Nah, I don't especially like the logo myself when I come across those sites, but I do like that "brand" people who want to make money off it and not pay dislike it even more.
- RattlesnakeJake 2mo ago
  It seems to come up every time this complaint arises. "I want to use an open source project without being associated with furries" isn't that unreasonable of a request.
  - Rebelgecko 2mo ago
    My understanding is that it's nigh-impossible to run a website without having a dependency on furry-maintained infra (even just basic stuff like BGP)
    - account42 2mo ago
      There is a difference between some maintainer somewhere being involved in a subculture and graphics from it being the first thing you see when you visit an unrelated website.
  - pritambaral 2mo ago
    > open source project So, one can put in the minimal effort of removing one div. > being associated There's no requirement of association of any kind. See above and below. > request Cool. Pay for your own branding. Request fulfilled. No? Then it's a demand, not a request.
  - account42 2mo ago
    My problem is more that I don't want open source infrastructure I don't control to be infected by this. For my own website I can just make it efficient enough not to need hacks like this.
bakugo 2mo ago
It's open source, just ask your AI agent to change the logo.
- xena 2mo ago
  Just keep in mind that changing the logo is a great way to move yourself down the priority list for bug reports and support.
  - bakugo 2mo ago
    Someone willing to take the 2 minutes to ask Claude to change the logo can probably also ask it to fix any bugs they find, or add any new features they might want.
xena 2mo ago
I wish my rent would stop going up year over year.
miladyincontrol 2mo ago
I'd argue its rather functioning exactly as intended with regards to obtaining paid users. Also this view seems a bit elderly. For most towards the end of the millennial curve and younger, anime is no longer subculture, its just general culture at this point. Although I would agree it isnt necessarily what you'd want for every platform and web presence.
brazukadev 2mo ago
that's really smart of them. Just pay to use the service you need.
- account42 2mo ago
  It's really smart of them to manufacture a negative sentiment about the project because the sexual fetish icon gets injected into all kinds of places where it is absolutely inappropriate?
  - TaLiTr 2mo ago
    Ah yes, all of anime is a "fetish thing." People like you are the reason every single communication, logo, and document is overly formal corpo-slop that reads like a LinkedIn post.
ivanjermakov 2mo ago
Pay to change logo??? Just fork Anubis and remove one div... It's not SaaS first software, you're expected to deploy it on your web server.
pibaker 2mo ago
How hard is it to maintain a fork that changes nothing except the logo? If you can't be bothered to maintain a trivial fork, then why should the author of anubis be bothered to serve your branding needs? It's not like you have a service contract or anything do you?

gfaster 2mo ago

I think that's partly why they do it? If you care about that, you should pay?

smolder 2mo ago
Or just have an LLM write the same thing for next to nothing...
youaremidwit 2mo ago
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inigyou 2mo ago

They're not stopping you. They're asking you politely not to.

teddyh 2mo ago

If you have a brand or personal image that you are investing in, you can surely afford to invest in paying for a branded version of Anubis.

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righthand 2mo ago

You wish they'd give your preferable imagery for free and not make you feel bad for using their free software for personal gain. Your subculture is irrelevant and not special.

1bpp 2mo ago

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tsunamifury 2mo ago
I hope I’m missing the sarcasm here…

pc86 2mo ago

It's MIT licensed, you are free to do whatever you want to it, including removing the logo. They're basically just saying "we'd prefer you didn't do this, but we're not preventing you from doing it."

altairprime 2mo ago

> is a turnoff for anyone with a brand or personal image that doesn't mesh with those subcultures. Most people either don’t know or don’t care about “those subcultures”. I bet a lot of older people think it’s a cartoon figure of Betty Boop (nurse) and miss the furry bit since it appears and disappears quickly. Most people also don’t have a brand. So it seems like you’re describing a concern that only affects a tiny fraction of people: - Not interested in paying for custom branding, so obviously not a corporation or influencer - Dislikes cartoons - Aware of, and hostile towards, “furry” subculture That has to be an exceedingly small fraction of potential users of Anubis, and given how much businesses and branders will pay to custom-brand something, I’d counsel them to stay the course. Sure, a few never-payers will never pay, but they wouldn’t have anyways, so they can cope with Nurse Betty or look elsewhere for a competing free product. If you think about this in physical market square terms — in other words, a bazaar — it seems horrendously rude to complain about a shop logo sticker on a free product handed out to anyone that walks up and asks for it. If you want it white-labeled so you can write your own name/logo on it, you pay for the privilege of displacing their name with yours. But you don’t stand there and loudly complain that their shop mascot has dog ears while holding a freebie bag of product, without losing the respect of everyone who hears you doing so.

vablings 2mo ago

It's actually a genius idea. If you are someone who the professional presentation of not having an anime girl on the loading page is required, then you can afford to fork over the cash to fund development.

zuzululu 2mo ago
I guess the disconnect here is a bunch of HN'ers believing professional companies and websites want to attach their branding to a sexualized anime character and that they are willing to pay to remove it. Which one then wonders why they would install it in the first place.
- snailmailman 2mo ago
  Sexualized? It’s just a cartoon/anime character holding a magnifying glass
  - cromka 2mo ago
    In any case, if you run a professional website, this immediately comes off as juvenile and/or amateurish. And am y people just assume it's part of your website.
    - xena 2mo ago
      Money can be used to purchase goods or services, such as an unbranded version.
      - zuzululu 2mo ago
        [flagged]
        krapp 2mo ago
        There is absolutely nothing sexualized about the Anubis mascot.

ryan_n 2mo ago

You just discovered their business model congrats.

RobotToaster 2mo ago

haproxy-protection is an alternative.

deleted 2mo ago

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peter_stokes 2mo ago

you really revved the weebs with this one

duskdozer 2mo ago
Nah, I don't especially like the logo myself when I come across those sites, but I do like that "brand" people who want to make money off it and not pay dislike it even more.
RattlesnakeJake 2mo ago
It seems to come up every time this complaint arises. "I want to use an open source project without being associated with furries" isn't that unreasonable of a request.
- Rebelgecko 2mo ago
  My understanding is that it's nigh-impossible to run a website without having a dependency on furry-maintained infra (even just basic stuff like BGP)
  - account42 2mo ago
    There is a difference between some maintainer somewhere being involved in a subculture and graphics from it being the first thing you see when you visit an unrelated website.
- pritambaral 2mo ago
  > open source project So, one can put in the minimal effort of removing one div. > being associated There's no requirement of association of any kind. See above and below. > request Cool. Pay for your own branding. Request fulfilled. No? Then it's a demand, not a request.
- account42 2mo ago
  My problem is more that I don't want open source infrastructure I don't control to be infected by this. For my own website I can just make it efficient enough not to need hacks like this.

bakugo 2mo ago

It's open source, just ask your AI agent to change the logo.

xena 2mo ago
Just keep in mind that changing the logo is a great way to move yourself down the priority list for bug reports and support.
- bakugo 2mo ago
  Someone willing to take the 2 minutes to ask Claude to change the logo can probably also ask it to fix any bugs they find, or add any new features they might want.

xena 2mo ago

I wish my rent would stop going up year over year.

miladyincontrol 2mo ago

I'd argue its rather functioning exactly as intended with regards to obtaining paid users. Also this view seems a bit elderly. For most towards the end of the millennial curve and younger, anime is no longer subculture, its just general culture at this point. Although I would agree it isnt necessarily what you'd want for every platform and web presence.

brazukadev 2mo ago

that's really smart of them. Just pay to use the service you need.

account42 2mo ago
It's really smart of them to manufacture a negative sentiment about the project because the sexual fetish icon gets injected into all kinds of places where it is absolutely inappropriate?
- TaLiTr 2mo ago
  Ah yes, all of anime is a "fetish thing." People like you are the reason every single communication, logo, and document is overly formal corpo-slop that reads like a LinkedIn post.

ivanjermakov 2mo ago

Pay to change logo??? Just fork Anubis and remove one div... It's not SaaS first software, you're expected to deploy it on your web server.

pibaker 2mo ago

How hard is it to maintain a fork that changes nothing except the logo? If you can't be bothered to maintain a trivial fork, then why should the author of anubis be bothered to serve your branding needs? It's not like you have a service contract or anything do you?