Readit NewsTranslations aren't even that expensive, especially relative to the cost of producing the docs in the first place. It hurts me to see MDN so starved of resources that they can't pay for even that small piece.
MDN has been key to so many people's technical education. High-quality web documentation is an essential resource for those looking to elevate themselves into a technical career these days.
Much of the world (20%, according to their own research) is set to lose access to this vital body of knowledge.
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There is nothing evil in analytics by itself - it's invaluable for improving usability.
>The concern on basing payment on length of the site visit are valid and something I think will need to be addressed at some point. People will try to game it as it gains acceptance.
Please post the name of your site so I can make sure to never visit it.
Not because you're bad or evil. Not because your content is bad or doesn't match my "biases."
But because the entire idea that just visting your site entitles you (or anyone else) to income is incredible hubris and disrespectful of the intelligence of your users.
Hey. I get it. We all need to make money to pay for the things we need to survive.
But creating an environment where the decision to visit a site (not even to access content, if I understand the spec properly) requires a calculation as to whether or not I first want to pay is so far from being reasonable (think being automatically charged, say, $10 as a minimum purchase when you enter an Amazon Go[0] store).
Please don't consider this a personal attack. It is not. Rather, I'm using strong language to express my point and encourage you to back off that road.
This is true, and indeed very strange. I use FF on mobile and it works perfectly. So Mozilla's problems aren't only technical, there's also a question of market awareness.
That said, there are also technical problems. Some bugs on the desktop linger on for years and are never fixed.
As described in the article, Mozilla spent a lot of energy into side projects that never went anywhere and were only loosely related to the browser.
This is all, obviously, a management problem.