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> but I would not use Anubis unless I could disable the imagery, and every time I see it on another site, I think: "hm. weird. whose branding is this?"

They do offer an unbranded version, botstopper. It is part of their commercial offering [0] and intended for "professional" environments

[0]: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

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IMO this makes it even worse - not only are FOSS projects now happily putting DRM on their websites, they also add ads for a commercial service.

Can't fault the logic. Will never use it if that's part of what they've chosen to paywall.

Once the project is sustainable (where I define sustainable as monthly recurring revenue--not one time donations--to be at $5000 USD per month as that is the point where my bank account stays flatlined not accounting for tax), an option to remove it will be added to the version you don't have to pay for.

Otherwise, it's MIT licensed software. You can remove it all you want, but I will use that as a signal to focus my time and energy as I see fit.

I appreciate the response, and your point is valid. FWIW there's no sarcasm in what I said up top; I'm not here to yuck anyone's yum.

I have been reading your stuff for a while, and if anything disproves my original point, it's your published output. cheers -

Thank you. I'm sorry if I was overly abrasive or rude, but it's getting really old. People have sent me horrible things because of this. I've had to start withdrawing from joining new places under my main identity. Just please take one femtoiota of care that the other side is also a human being with thoughts, feelings, and that they may just be incredibly tired of hearing people complain about something.

I legit didn't read any rudeness, it was a graceful retort.

> People have sent me horrible things because of this.

That sucks, and I see how it makes my (somewhat) measured reaction scan differently.

> Just please take one femtoiota of care that the other side is also a human being with thoughts, feelings, and that they may just be incredibly tired of hearing people complain about something.

Your shit rocks, your stuff on Tailscale in particular inspired me greatly, and I'm sorry you caught me seeing orange.

> Can't fault the logic. Will never use it if that's part of what they've chosen to paywall.

Is pretty damn rude. It's the kind of thing you say online but would never say face-to-face.

I'm not sure we agree on what constitutes "pretty damn rude". It was an inelegant, hastily expressed opinion.

Yes, inelegant, hasty, and with no regard to the person across the wire you're communicating with. Self serving and rude.

You are incorrectly implying that I made the comment after the author joined the thread. This is not true.

Hastiness and inelegance tends to happen when you want to trip over yourself to make a point on this site, which we're now both guilty of.

Hey, thanks for working on the software, you made something really cool!

It's kind of an ingenious way to weed out people who are engaging in bad faith. Like if you're choosing not to use a very useful piece of software because of some aesthetic sensibility, maybe I want to be able to identify you more easily.

Fwiw I like the mascot but I also don't associate this username with my actual identity because I draw anime style pixel art, so I get it.

Thank you for what you do. I have zero use for Anubis nor have I personally encountered the problem it's meant to solve, but I'll readily support the girl, she is very cute. Never listen to the blisteringly lukewarm takes of the corpo venturecapitariat.

Thank you. I swear some people here have had their innate sense of whimsy surgically removed, or it's some kind of transphobia. Either way, it's frustrating to hear the people here bitch so much about something so minor.

My head might actually explode from irony wtf.

I can't wait for it to be sustainable so I can send a PR to let people use gratuitously furry characters instead. :3

Like... imagine Anubis, but with the "anubis is overdrawn" meme.

https://imgur.com/a/RubDWrR

So on one hand you wouldn't use it as-is for anything professional, because of the artwork, but on the other, you'd be unwilling to pay to use it -- for something professional -- because removing the artwork is the paid feature?

Unbelievable.

Yeah this is a very weird logic. I would love some kind explanation of mpalmer.

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