Recently, I’ve more and more come to the conclusion that Grav is dead - substantial development from the Project Lead has not been seen for months now, so the obvious fact that development has stalled can IMHO no longer be disregarded. I cannot speculate about the reasons here - anyone who knows so…

That’s true, and it was just an example (not suitable for Grav, as a software should clearly be ad free to be taken seriously). For a huge quality website like Wikipedia, contextual ads could make a lot of sense for income, though (and ad blockers can be detected and forbidden).

You’re describing what huge greedy corporations do

Is unfriendliness your way of saying thanks for the feedback? I tried to cheer up the chief developer and contribute some practical ideas! And I don’t know what’s “greedy” about advertisement? Neither the many who need ads to finance themselves, nor advertisers, are bad. Somehow you need to cover yo…

[image] Mulder: And I don’t know what’s “greedy” about advertisement? This: [image] Mulder: ad blockers can be detected and forbidden You’re suggesting to prevent users from page access if they use ad blockers. Your suggestions makes no sense in Grav case Grav already has ads for pro…

First you insinuated that I’m promoting “greedy” methods, and now you’re insinuating that I can’t handle other opinions. Isn’t that unfriendly? You were also unfriendly to another user in another thread that was just trying to give constructive feedback, so maybe you should reconsider your behavior.…

First of all - I don’t know you or most of the other members, so I’m trying to keep neutral Second - you just admitted, that ads for Grav is not an option, but still suggested them (even if as an example) Third - any monetisation option, which users are forced into, is intrusive. Probably the only…

Okay, I’ll forgive you, and it was all my fault - to stop our mutual accusations :wink: I agree on the “forced into is intrusive”, but this speaks against the “freemium” approach of Grav and for my skeptical view of “freemium”. A concrete example: within the discussions on the Grav comments plugin…

@Mulder There are people who donate simply because they choose to (for example me) and believe in a different busness model. You can argue about the effectiveness, but you can’t just ignore them. @Karmalakas Even if I have read more than one (hyper) sensitive reaction to your comments, you don’t …

I use Grav for my website, i would like to earn money by building websites for others too but i couldnt till now. When i earn enough for myself i am planning buying services from devs of Grav and that is how i am planing to help Grav (for myself, not for devs). At some fields of trade, sometimes own…

[image] hoernerfranz: Recently, I’ve more and more come to the conclusion that Grav is dead - substantial development from the Project Lead has not been seen for months now, so the obvious fact that development has stalled can IMHO no longer be disregarded. I cannot speculate about the reasons …

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