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630 points sendilkumarn | 5 comments | 24 Mar 22 16:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.654s | source
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jefftk ◴[24 Mar 22 17:12 UTC] No.30792694[source]▶
Everyone who's been saying "I wish they would just charge money for this", here's your chance to put your money where your mouth is!
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reitanqild ◴[24 Mar 22 17:48 UTC] No.30793192[source]▶
I didn't say that I think but I am tempted to pay anyway.

The big question is:

Does the money go to Firefox or to funny projects and (what I consider) insane exec salaries?

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1. danShumway ◴[24 Mar 22 18:01 UTC] No.30793379[source]▶
Hopefully it goes to MDN. I do wish there was a way to fund Firefox directly, but I hope that MDN plus resources are for MDN, not Firefox.
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2. sirwitti ◴[24 Mar 22 19:05 UTC] No.30794091[source]▶
Same for me, I'd love to get a subscription for Firefox!
3. ankit70 ◴[24 Mar 22 19:06 UTC] No.30794095[source]▶
I pay for pocket subscription just for this.
4. nialv7 ◴[24 Mar 22 19:29 UTC] No.30794327[source]▶
Mozilla laid off most of the MDN team in 2020 [1], then shifted the responsibility of updating MDN from Mozilla to the community [2], then created the Open Web Docs organization to take over the job of funding MDN [3].

And _now_ they come asking us to pay for MDN? I am not optimistic about this.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132494 [2]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/12/welcome-yari-mdn-web-docs-... [3]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/01/welcoming-open-web-docs-to...

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5. danShumway ◴[24 Mar 22 19:47 UTC] No.30794523[source]▶
I already replied to this kind of logic elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30793257), but I don't see the logic of looking at Mozilla cutting support for a program then introducing a way to fund that program, and responding to that by saying, "why should I fund something that's seeing cuts?"

Hopefully it goes to MDN. Nothing about the scenario you describe would be improved by funneling money from MDN to Firefox, that would make the problem worse. What I'd like is for Mozilla to introduce ways to fund Firefox directly, not for the money to come from a different critical web resource.