andrew-dc

Still in the next big thing camp myself, also. Of course, there are the noted drawbacks, but for our use case: putting a library of UI components across a handful of app stacks (.NET, asp, Angular, etc) - Svelte is the solution.

We have faced the usual wild west frontier situations where nobody really had an answer for something we wanted to do, but we have worked out solutions without a huge deal of frustration.

And it's important to mention that the development and maintenance experience of Svelte is very pleasant.

We use a couple instances of Sapper in a Design System / UI component monorepo (for documentation and a sandbox). It worked well in regard to "just working" with Svelte (as opposed to shoe-horning Svelte components into something like Storybook, which we also tested), but even so, Sapper still added more complexity that was needed in our specific case.

Before Svelte Summit, I had a 'look into Svelte + Snowpack' on my list of, "when we have some time TODOs' list.

From the looks of it, SvelteKit will dominate on the dev experience and also thin down some of the things we were doing with Sapper. I look forward to rolling our existing stuff to it.

I still don't even have the option to switch. Not sure why. Maybe Facebook noticed my epic unfollowing of nearly everyone and everything to clean up the feed... haha.

I have a growing collection of resources under the title: "My Own Platform," and this is exactly why.

As many have mentioned, there are some awesome utilities out there for simple Markdown publishing -> Push to Github pages. Sure, you won't get all the interwoven clicks and promotion, but in my book, I think shooting for a smaller quality group of readers, then a huge mass of people is more where I am at. Milage may vary, I'm sure.

Oh yeah, I get that the stores and industry are a major problem here. Devs who don't play the store ranking game, end up losing. I resent that very much. I'm not certain what would be a decent solution for this problem, cause even if games were rated by users on "quality" - then the shift would be to game that quality system, by rewarding players to rank things higher quality, etc. Just a bummer.

Father of two boys, and kinda lapsed gamer. Wanted to introduce boys to some fun games we can play together. I cannot express how maddening the entire casino/micro-transaction transformation of all games has ruined everything for kids. I would happily buy a game out-right if it disabled all up-sells, and transactional BS. Even frikkin Minecraft launches with a bazillion pay upgrades now, and that's after you already bought it.

I play a few carefully selected Steam titles with the boys in a limited fashion, because they are actually games, and not clever schemes to monetize everything.

Even so, my oldest (who's 6) hasn't even ever seen Fortnight - and yet he still asks me about it. (I guess he hears about it from friends.) That's how good their marketing and monetization strategy works... It's sickening.

Tough sell for investors.

I was going to suggest that anyone interested in quality of debate unplug from Twitter entirely and go meet up with some folks for coffee. Or Tacos. Or go on a hike together. Or have them over for board games. Bonus if these are folks you don't entirely agree with on everything.

"...part of an ever-growing class of people who have leveraged their social media clout to..."

"OK. I'm out." (splash) ~Maui

Yeah, uh hi, I'm interested in your...uh...Self-Absorbed Jackass package. What does that entail?