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630 points sendilkumarn | 1 comments | 24 Mar 22 16:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.298s | 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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qbasic_forever ◴[24 Mar 22 17:24 UTC] No.30792864[source]▶
Are they going to rehire all the dedicated editors and staff they laid off?

Or is this really just charging money for all their now open source contributed content...

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rndgermandude ◴[24 Mar 22 17:45 UTC] No.30793150[source]▶
Neither. As the article specifically mentions, they will not be charging for the existing open content, or any future changes or additions to it. Why you would try to suggest they might do this is beyond me.

They will be selling additional "premium features" at launch time, as described in this article, and plan to sell specifically created additional content, like in-depth articles, in the longer run, as described in previous articles.

Maybe this will enable them to hire back some of the people they let go (assuming these people are willing). But the main goal is to put mdn on a level of funding where little or no funding from mozilla is required anymore.

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1. pc86 ◴[24 Mar 22 18:10 UTC] No.30793473[source]▶
> Why you would try to suggest they might do this is beyond me.

Cynical take: because reading is hard so people just don't do it, and see "MDN" in the title so take this as their chance to scream into the void about whatever tangentially related nonsense they care about today.