Maps.me got sold to a series of subsequent owners. It was those subsequent owners who enshittified the app, not the original developers mentioned in your quotation. The original developers only later returned to the codebase, because it was freely licensed, and forked it in a different direction.
Re:Organic Maps
by gedankenstuecke on Sunday July 05, 2026 @05:15PM
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the original developers of MM then just started to do the same to OM by equally aggressively ask for money :p
>do the same to OM by equally aggressively ask for money
I use OM for a lot of years and never saw any aggressive money ask, could you point me what I am missing?
Re:Organic Maps
by gedankenstuecke on Monday July 06, 2026 @09:02AM
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when opening the page for a place, the bottom for me regularly displays the "donation" ask which in good big tech fashion gives you the "ask again later" option.
Is that on iOS? Never saw such thing on android
Re:Organic Maps
by gedankenstuecke on Monday July 06, 2026 @05:24PM
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nope, that's on Android, installed via Accrescent
Re:Organic Maps
by bluebarbet on Monday July 06, 2026 @02:11AM
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Why do people inflict this on themselves? OsmAnd has all the features of Organic Maps and CoMaps and MapsMe (in fact three times more features) and in 15 years of using it I have not any of these problems.
We’re on a nerd forum, so of course some of us love OSMAnd. But the general public finds that app too confusing. I know this firsthand because I’m in a travel subculture where OSMAnd provides a very useful tool that Maps.me/Organic Maps/CoMaps does not, but whenever I recommend OSMAnd people react very badly to the app and get angry at me for directing them to something so unpleasant.
Re:Organic Maps
by bluebarbet on Monday July 06, 2026 @04:15PM
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You're right, of course. Whenever I evangelize for OsmAnd, what always surprises me is that nobody has even heard of it. Must be for a reason.
The developers seem a serious bunch, the issue tracker has been actively curated for years (although it's snowed under). They have a subscription business model, which is a bit opaque but seems to be functional. And yet everyone always has the same complaint about the app: terrible UX.
If only the Organic Maps people had contributed their undoubted skills to improving OsmAnd.
Re:Organic Maps
by AmblingAvocado on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:44AM
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I see - so they got my money, then they sold the company/app and got paid twice, and I'm left holding the enshittified bag. How can I trust they won't do the same thing here?
Ah, the same people who I bought Maps.Me from in 2012 - that when I went to use it recently now bombards me with "sale ending in 4 hours!" pro subscription ad popovers in order to restore functionality (more than 10 offline map areas) that existed at the time I bought the app? No thanks.