Solo devs burning themselves out on their hobby projects is basically how the entire Internet used to work, and we’re currently living in the consequences of that.
The “Buy them out and monetize their shit”-phase
Threadiverse would be the first to cite you Pareto distribution’s without proposing ways to inverse it. Damn leeches!
NexusMods has been enshittifying for a while now.
Useless website design that only serves the purpose of making you scroll past more unwanted content, annoying ads, a “We value your privacy” popup that doesn’t value your privacy (1072 partners in the cookie popup) and the gall to ask for premium subscriptions after tracking and selling your data.
a “We value your privacy” popup that doesn’t value your privacy (1072 partners in the cookie popup)
You misunderstand, they value your privacy monetarily, as in invading it makes them money.
They also can’t build a mod manager to save their lives.
God help you if you think they understand anything about how to write any OS agnostic code.
In other news: ModDB still exists. Same with GameBanana.
don’t worry, it’s even worse than that:
they already built one, and then abandoned it!
the NexusModsApp (terrible name) WAS OS-agnostic and already in beta.
they killed it because it was “splitting their resources”, and “confusing users”… bullshit, their new onwers forced them to cut costs.
they’re effectively dead, just a matter of time until their new owners slaughter the golden goose because it isn’t laying eggs fast enough…
I’m a fan of thunderstore, having been there when it was made for RoR2. Not sure how I feel about the UI redesign, but it’s simple and as of yet unenshittified.
Please don’t browse the web without ad blockers (which also block trackers and cookie banners). It’s unsafe and not good for you.
Given Chrome’s changes, this should also read: use Firefox or a non-chromium based browser, with an ad blocker.
This goes without saying, but yes. The ad blocker should also be uBlock Origin.
LibreWolf + uBlock Origin here. I only got ads on NexusMods once, when I opened the wrong browser on accident.
Community built assets sold to venture capital by website admins.
It’s a tale as old as the Internet, and still incredibly shitty.
One Person built it and he asked for help several times
So the headline is wrong and it’s not actually a community-run database?
The point is all of these sites, be it reddit or imbd or steamdb are only valuable because of the user content, and for some reason we’ve decided it’s completely acceptable that the people that administrate the website can claim ownership of the data and sell it off to the highest bider.
That doesn’t mean running a website isn’t hard work, it is, but that we’re making people rich on the basis of work other people did for free.
Fuck they’re going to break steamcharts and IsThereAnyDeal aren’t they. They’re going to put an API Paywall up
Steamcharts has been an absolute thorn in publisher’s sides for years
A kind reminder that the internet, the world wide web, and TCP/IP were all invented by a public-civic partnership, not the private sector.
[quote][i]“Now we stand outcast and starving 'midst the wonders we have made…”[/i][/quote]
Welp, let the enshittification begin. Nexus has degraded significantly these past few years.
