Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by joe_the_user on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:21PM
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Not really, because I saw too many software companies go out of business because not enough people wound up upgrading to the next major version
Aside from the other point, the idea that someone continuing to pay money for software is going to keep the company from going out of business seems misguided.
I still subscribe, pay fucking money, to Meetup.com but over the years, despite a large subscriber base, the site become a buggy moribund piece of junk (but still the only thing in it's area). Such drift into worthless is typical for just about all subscriber software because software needs maintenance and because once a subscriber model reaches saturation point, the primary approach of management is simply milk it for all the money possible by reducing labor costs to the minimum (look what Musk's doing to Twitter, it's not weird it's typical).
Aside from the other point, the idea that someone continuing to pay money for software is going to keep the company from going out of business seems misguided.
I still subscribe, pay fucking money, to Meetup.com but over the years, despite a large subscriber base, the site become a buggy moribund piece of junk (but still the only thing in it's area). Such drift into worthless is typical for just about all subscriber software because software needs maintenance and because once a subscriber model reaches saturation point, the primary approach of management is simply milk it for all the money possible by reducing labor costs to the minimum (look what Musk's doing to Twitter, it's not weird it's typical).