BartyDeCanter

Oh I agree. My guess is that the powers that be at Paizo are pretty desperate right now, so they’re reviewing and cutting anything that doesn’t contribute revenue. AoN doesn’t cost them anything directly, and has definitely helped spread a lot of goodwill and probably contributed to the Paizo bottom line, but I would bet that they’re hoping to get a bump from people who want release day digital rules but aren’t buying the PDFs. It’s a gamble on getting some more short term revenue vs how much long term goodwill they lose.

The other possibility that comes to mind is that they are trying to get some financing and the lenders/investors/new owners are looking at the AoN agreement as a liability, which on the books it is. I can hear an auditor, “Let me get this straight, you have an agreement to provide another company with your IP, let them put it on the internet, and even provide it to them before your paying customers, and in return they have paid you $0 over the last eight years? That’s gotta go.” This is pure speculation though.

That is disappointing, but having read the statement by AoN I kinda understand why.

Paizo is having financial troubles, mostly due to things not their fault. The AoN partnership has brought them zero dollars over the last eight years of the partnership.

If I were Paizo, I’d now be looking at either partnering with somebody who could bring in some money, or setting up my own version that I had a plan to monetize.

Since Paizo is encouraging AoN to continue what they are doing under the community use policy, this isn’t something that will break AoN. My guess is that Paizo is going to announce a paid something or other that offers what AoN is losing out on, namely release day rules updates.

Immich is great. I run a small friends and family instance on a NAS and I’ve never had a hiccup that took more than ten minutes to fix. My backup system is borg to a Hetzner storage box nightly with a healthchecks.io check set to email me if it goes more than 48 hours without a success. Cheap, reliable, and fast enough for me.

That still doesn’t mean that it’s not a shitty design language that looks like somebody just discovered the circle tool in gimp.

I seem to be solidly in a grumpy old man mood tonight.

You know what was good UI design language? Mid-late 90s Windows/MacOS/BeOS. Buttons looked like buttons and you could see if they were pressed or disabled. Same with sliders, radio button, and every other UI widget. The slight 3D look meant that it was obvious at a glance what was going on. Window corners has little grabbers to show where to grab. Scroll bars showed how much you could scroll, with obvious buttons to do so.

Everything about flat UI design is bullshit.

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Two main reasons: history and network effects.

GitHub was an independent company for a decade that provided a vastly superior service to what it replaced, primarily SourceForge. And it was free for FOSS projects, while charging for closed ones.

The improvements paid for by the closed source customers trickled out to everyone. So, it became the best place for FOSS developers, large and small. And as more people moved to GH, the more reason there was to move to it.

Of course, it was constantly bleeding money and eventually had to do something. That ended up being selling to MS.

There was a lot of trepidation about this, but for the first few years they not only kept their promise about supporting FOSS, but actually made it better by allowing small private repos to get many of the services that were previously gated for open FOSS or paid repos.

And the alternatives were stil not as good, and just as importantly didn’t have the user networking that GH does.

Now, some FOSS people are starting to look elsewhere, Codeberg, self-hosted Forgejo, and others. They have come a long way and are nearing feature parity, particularly for smallish projects. But the network effects of discovery and reputation are strong, and GH still provides a few more useful features.

I’ve moved my private repos to self hosted Forgejo, but my public ones are still on GH as push mirrors. I’m not ready to give up the discoverability and Mac/Windows CI runners that I can get from GH for free. I hope to be able to some day, but not yet.

Updated!

I’m not certain, but I wish you the best of luck in finding it. 😅

Bisexual - You’re over 35

Pansexual - You’re under 35

Omnisexual - You’ve spent way more time thinking about your sexuality than getting laid

Demisexual - You’re way more queer than you’re ready to admit.

Sapiosexual - You’re a straight guy trying to impress the cute barista by seeming cool and intellectual. You are failing. Or you are a woman on a dating app trying to stop the endless flood of low-effort “sup” introductions. You are also failing.

Edit: Forgot one!

Heteroflexible - Willing to touch someone of the same gender sorta sexually for an audience if you think it means you’ll get a threesome later.

Be was the best desktop OS of all time. It’s not even close.