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Watch people unironically celebrate FOSS developers running into financial issues from bot traffic, because they don’t like Gnome shell.
Wait a second. Is this just Lunduke gaslighting people again, like the last time all the idiots were saying that Gnome was going to go bankrupt within a year?
What happened to gnome?
The GNOME Foundation has been going downhill for a while, they keep having to cut spending, and cut, and cut. The latest is:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GitHub-GitLab-Redirect
(Forgive the Phoronix link.)
I’m out of the loop. What’s the issue with phoronix?
It’s really, really, really bad reportage. 90% of what they post is just rewording emails from mailing lists with nothing added at all. They’re clearly just regurgitating words they don’t understand.
They focus a lot on drama and it’s like a twelve year old decided to write about all the most superficial drama without any technical understanding of what they’re writing about.
Their “benchmarks” have been heavily criticised too and it’s clear they basically have no idea what they’re doing and the numbers aren’t to be trusted.
Their English prose is terrible. “For this …” wut?
All in all, just a sorry excuse for a website. If it were a newspaper, the appropriate term for it would be a “rag”.
Thanks for your insights!
I imagine AI scrapers have a lot to do with the massively increased hosting costs. I’m assuming Anubis et al didnt fix all their bot traffic issues
the massively increased hosting costs.
Eh? What increased hosting costs?
Bots aggressively scrapping everything they can.
That’s not GNOME-specific. klangcola@reddthat.com is saying GNOME have experienced “massively increased hosting costs” but there’s no mention of increased hosting costs in the article I linked to, massive or otherwise, and as far as I know, nobody has mentioned any increase in the context of GNOME, hence my question.
Given that hosting costs have objectively increased across the board due to AI scraping, and the GNOME project just introduced these changes, it is obviously sensible to assume that GNOMEs hosting costs have increased too.
it is obviously sensible to assume
I disagree. There’s no need to make assumptions. And even if there were, this does not seem like a sensible assumption to make.
Their hubris may have finally caught up with them.
which is surprising as there are A LOT of GNOME fanboys. I personally don’t get it, I’ve tried several times to give it a shot but it just constantly annoys the piss out of me.
“No, fuck you. You’ll use your computer how we tell you to, and you’ll like it!” just isn’t very compatible with “Please give us more money!”
The only reason I use desktop Linux is because of GNOME and the UX of the GTK ecosystem. Not everyone care about 5 billion points of customization, they care about simplicity & consistency. 😄
Works for Apple, but I don’t expect much overlap with Linux users.
Even Apple allows more user customization and choice than Gnome does these days.
