Once I reach the $5000 per month goal across all funding platforms, features currently exclusive to the private fork of Anubis for corpos (including changing the images and soon HTML templating support: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper) will be merged into the open source repo.
Thanks for the answer. To be clear, although I'm not a huge anime person, I don't have any issue with the mascot itself. I meant my question as "why is the Anubis mascot an anime girl [instead of an Anubis]", but it seems my intention was misread over the internet.
I love the idea of Anubis, but in practice, it has turned more than a few sites that I visit into sites that don't work without javascript. So instead of being happy to see it, I find myself disappointed and frustrated, often deciding not to bother with the site after all.
It's off by default while the false positive, true positive, true negative, and false negative rates are being evaluated. This is how you make changes like that without breaking user expectations.
That's good news. That'll make me consider using Anubis.
Thanks for fighting the AI bots.
You get some hate for this anime girl image but this paid white label thing is a good idea I think. It's nice we have alternative ways of funding free software that doesn't involve ads and tracking and thank you for choosing this path.
There's a solid strategy behind it: give people what they want with a flaw that makes it unviable for corpos. Then sell the cure. I remember being told that monetization model as a joke and figured this would be one way to test it. The horrifying part in my book is that Anubis is a relative success story as far as open source funding goes, and it's barely a third of what a junior level software developer makes. It's maddening.
Interesting. I suppose I need to try this if I ever happen to build something to which it could apply. Thanks for the inspiration.
A third of a junior salary is not much but I guess it could help with at least turning a full time position into part time.
> I remember being told that monetization model as a joke and figured this would be one way to test it
Ah ah. Awesome.
It has happened to me once or twice that I jokingly share an idea, and it gets picked up seriously (in a professional setting). "But it was a joke! Too late. Oh no." - I guess it's not too bad in the end and shouldn't be fighted too hard. I guess I'll just make sure that if the idea is horrible, I don't make the joke if I think people around could seriously pick it up.
Once I reach the $5000 per month goal across all funding platforms, features currently exclusive to the private fork of Anubis for corpos (including changing the images and soon HTML templating support: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper) will be merged into the open source repo.