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You're right. I apologize, I didn't want to come across as arrogant or defensive.

YouTube creators get paid if there are enough people watching them. People watching videos, discussing on comment threads, and paying for YouTube Red don't get paid for their effort.

I take it you don't use YouTube then. All their content is user generated, you get ads, they capitalize on your "efforts", and you have premium features that you can access only by paying (ie. YouTube Red).

I'm not familiar with Vue, but from the source of that link it seems a similar approach.

You wouldn't contribute even if the locked features were unrelated to what you'd be contributing to?

It's not about locking features to paying users only. It's about making new features that have enough value to you that you want to pay to use them.

Take the example from the white paper (paid help from experts), I don't get how you'd feel exploited that way, since it's not even related to contributions.

I'm really sad you feel that way. Wikipedia also asks for contributions and donations, does that feel like exploitation to you?

No it doesn't, cause there's a massive amount of work that goes in projects like these and there's costs too. Costs that donations don't always pay.

Would you prefer a huge banner while you're browsing asking you to donate and telling you that if we don't meet a certain quota we're shutting down the website, or would you prefer having an additional feature that you may or may not want to pay for? I don't know you, but I'd definitely go for the second one.

Yeah we were partly inspired by it and the idea is similar. Although, they seem to focus on ML and Math, while we hope to cover as many topics as possible. Another difference is that we don't host any content, but just links to resources.

For rendering the maps we're using React and D3. D3 is used for calculating the position of elements on the page and, React for rendering and manipulating those elements. Before we had a ref and let D3 manage everything on that ref, but it got unmanageable quite fast.

EDIT: if you're interested here's an article that explains what I'm talking about https://medium.com/@Elijah_Meeks/interactive-applications-wi...

If you know any good resources feel free to add them, so next time someone searches for "existentialism" they will find something more beside the link to wiki.