And I don’t care what else Jimmy Wales has done, for profit or otherwise — Wikipedia is a goddamn gift and the world would be hurt tremendously if it ever shut down. It’s probably the only non-profit I donate to regularly.
Right now, fandom.com is basically unusable. Unfortunately, as some info that is there is nowhere else.
For me it is mjg59 and maybe Miguel de Icaza, also maybe Linus Torvalds
Even legendary names are just humans. TBL and his support for DRM. LT's notorious personality. Page & Schmidt and completely losing sight of the helpfulness they started from.
Worship / revere / appreciate no one. Filter their good, acknowledge their bad, find a path past them to something better, and know you'll probably be corrupted by something along the way unless you somehow transcend your own DNA.
It is cheap. Plenty of us left at the time Wikia became garbage and went independent. It just requires technical know how that most people don't have.
For me - no problem. I have a few side projects and I shell out around 15 - 25 Euros each month.
But I know a lot of people who would love to do stuff like that and have no way of at least being easily reimbursed by the community for their efforts.
A community of 50 people could be financing this with 20 cents each per month.
But as privacy intrusive advertising became the norm no solution ever grew enough to become feasible for the masses.
I remember the flattr button. I used flattr for a while. But in the end I stopped.
tl;dr 10 bucks are not cheap to anybody. I wish easy micropayments were a thing.
I'm aware of this, but you need to keep in mind that we were one of the largest wikis on Wikia (in the top 30 iirc). That's the only reason it cost $10/month.
Most of the wikis on Wikia were tiny, got small traffic, and could have probably been hosted with mine on my VM without even affecting mine.
Sometimes I have this crazy thought that we maybe, just maybe, should undo all the JS performance optimizations in browsers. So JS again becomes the macro language for hypertext documents it's meant to be, not an "application platform".
90+% of web pages shouldn't need it for anything.
Developers who do things like that probably aren't checking whether their code works well on any machines besides their own.
https://therecord.media/microsoft-silently-enables-super-dup...
Although I guess this isn't the answer you're looking for.
Is that actually a bad thing?
I have no idea about video playback controls, but in every other instance I've noticed where sites implement their own custom versions of browser controls, it's been absolutely terrible.
Custom scrollbars, or lack thereof. Custom drop-down lists, which never support keyboard input properly. And so on.
And even if I'm wrong, and custom video playback controls are somehow desirable, why should they be supported for any event except onclick?
obvious example would be articles with scrolling effects (eg. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-...), and need to autoplay videos when they scroll into view. That said, even if you restricted it to onclick, I don't imagine it's too hard for a page to receive a stray click (eg. if you're randomly selecting stuff) to trigger playback.
That is not a legitimate example of a good thing. That's a legitimate example of something that shouldn't be a thing
It is imho very valid to experiment with new forms of multimedia mixed stories.
And just because some people abuse features that enable this we should not try to stifle innovative ideas as a whole imho.
I just don't use sites that do this anymore. I mean the abusal part.
As I am a contributor to some of the Fandom Wiki, I have to log in in order to make the promoted video goes away, which it did. But logging in in order to get rid of it is not a solution to this. Video shouldn't be popped up like this, let alone played automatically. I would tolerate a static ad to some degree, but this is not what I'm willing to.
Forking the content itself is easy but good luck beating Fandom on a search page.
Although checking the AO3 wiki page, man I didn't expect them to have hosting costs that high.
Do you have a project site? I might be interested in contributing.
The site in question is https://www.poewiki.net
Still sucks to have to add "overwiki" or "uesp" to search terms all the time.
The worst part is that uBlock Origin's element picker doesn't work on Firefox for Android (or if it does, I haven't figured out how to use it), so on the one platform where it's maximally annoying I can't do anything to block it.