Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
by georgiecasey on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @06:14PM
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Big difference is you weren't being paid! I had a free and ad-free app on Android and I got some abuse about missing features. I took it down after a while. The sense of entitlement was unreal. Now if I was making $50k a day, I'd take all the abuse that could have been thrown at me!
Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
by grey-area on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @06:45PM
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Imagine that abuse and entitlement scaled up by 10000, would you still want the money?
Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
by sergiotapia on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @07:28PM
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Yes. I can stuff my ears with wads of $100 bills to cancel the noise from peasants.
Or just hire someone to sort your mail.
Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
by georgiecasey on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @06:49PM
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yes. it's only the internet, not like people roaring it in the street.
Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
by NamTaf on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @01:04AM
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Actually it was the media and others showing up at his house, as per the article.
Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
by NPC82 on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @07:25PM
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Pidgin/gaim fan here - thank you. I think I started using it just before the time of the name change and it's had an enormously positive impact on my life. That might sound silly but it was one of the few Linux programs I knew how to install and configure at the time.
Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
by robflynn on Thursday March 13, 2014 @07:43PM
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That makes me happy. Sounds like you came into it just as I was stepping away. I pretty much stayed through the name change and then split. :)
Thanks for doing more than your share. Pidgin/Gaim were great. Pidgin still is.
Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
by robflynn on Thursday March 13, 2014 @07:42PM
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Thanks! :)
Sure, there was plenty of praise, too. But the harassment eventually became annoying. It hit it's breaking point when someone folks managed to figure out my cell phone number and would call me at all sorts of hours (3am once!) to "tell me about their ideas."
I changed my cell number but it eventually happened again.
Most of my interactions with users were positive, though. But, the various legal issues, hateful folks, and my day job suddenly taking more time I decided to give it up and pass it on to someone else. I had already become mostly observational/maintenance on the project in my last year there anyways.
Slight digressions aside, I was fairly young when I got with the project and it was surprisingly to me how angry some people could be for no reason at all.