As has already been said, this is not news, nor is it a change, it is not news. It is not even something, that can be reprehensible to the people who maintain the Filezilla project. Funny to see people who have been using the software for half their lives, criticizing this. This can only surprise someone who installed filezilla for the first time, or had not installed it for half a lifetime..
Some of the software the adware installer requires an opt out to not install can be harmful or hard to remove, like the "Search Offer powered by Bing" in the article linked elsewhere in this site. Even the free AVs will often start you as a trial for the paid version or have incredibly easy ways to convert your install to such a trial and nag the user to pay up once the trial expires, arguably reducing their computer security.
I know HN has a strong libertarian bent, and uou could argue this is a free market, buyer beware situation, but in that case, wouldn't the criticism posted be part of that and how buyers know that they should beware?
So the people who dont know better pay for stuff they dont need? Sounds like literally everything else. Most people who buys cars dont know anything about cars and thus they likely overpay.
This sucks but its in fact a "free market" thing.
All the infos about cars are easily available. It chances nothing, most buyers of car simply dont care enough to get fundamental knowledge about cars. If you would value the time it takes for an average car buyer to get fundamental knowledge it would cost way more than what they overpay so unless you already have above average knowledge it makes no sense to dig into it. You are better off asking someone who has the knowledge and no incentive to fool you aka a friend not the sale person.
Google is a siren server. Read Who Owns the Future? by Lanier Jaron..
About the seo spam. It has always been like this.
The difference. Is that today. Google also wants to take over all the content you're interested in, be even more powerful, and steal the business from content creators through the short information at the top.
Basically. Yes.
Google is completely plagiarizing the entire web to improve your business returns, and yes.
Google is the one who penalizes you for creating plagiarized or copied content.
Although today. They. They are taking advantage of that very thing.
The only difference is that they give as real the content of the web pages that pay them the most.
Despite the fact that this content is stolen from another side or from your blog.
For Google it is more true / real / authentic / original, the content that offers more and more benefits to your own company.
So the internet is screwed up today. Even if you have a personal website and do not write on third party sites...
you have been asked about scalability, and you have not answered. I do not know if it really is a serious project, or a project with which you wish to self-promote.
In as much as, take care of your https, you expire next month.
And the numerous cookies that are implanted, including those of a counter that you have hidden somewhere, those of tumblr, those of doubleclick, yahoo ..
Adblock blocks an item Which apparently is also hidden somewhere. Because when I deactivate it, I can not reach what it is.
This is a tumblr? Turned? Too much for a site with 19 songs.
Likewise, it is appreciated as something that is free.
I'm sorry for my English. Good luck with the project.
hi. I'm not sure if I understood everything but I will try to answer:
Regarding scalability: I think in the far future scaling will be possible through implementing AI, optimized and automated processes and a bigger team working together on that project.
But honestly I am much more focused on quality than quantity for now and things like "understanding all legal aspects" etc. But of course in future I will work on having more different artists from different genres on the platform with growth capacity.
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Regarding "self-promotion": As I stated in other reply, I just started giving my own music for free as I realized that this is the only way to start assuring copyright restrictions.
It should not be about me primarly.
I also consider changing the Domain-URL from ".me" to a ".com"
to support this.
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Regarding all technical issues you mention - wow really helpful thoughts but I am not a pro by far. None you mentioned is in any way with bad intention - the opposite, I tried eliminate all unnecessary stuff from a tumblr template to get a clean website. If you have concrete improvement ideas please contact me directly via mail - really appreciate your thoughts!
For now I'm already starting to work with some of you who offered to support the project technically and to build it on a more scalable solution. stay tuned (newsletter)
Thankyou!
Medium pays? I just found out about that. And how exactly does it pay you? Because they have never paid me a cent. On the other hand. Medium. It is a specific platform for the English language. It would be impossible to make a blog in Spanish inside of Medium, And earn some money, really? I think I'm right.. Mmmm
YOUTUBE STOP PAYING MILLIONS OF CREATORS WITH SMALL INCOME BY THE FACE, BY THE FACE. WITH YOUR CHANGES NOW ADD METHODS OF PAYMENT, AND NOW YOU WANT TO REDUCE CHARGES.
Well if that is not to take advantage of the user. What is it?
Codegiant I like me for small personal repositories without much importance, like mine. Is it based on gitlab? Tell me more about them. It looks nicer than gitlab.
So crazy.