Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator
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This is a Lemmy Community for perchance.org, a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.
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I believe @Randomize@lemmy.world is saying the same thing you are...only a bit more passionately 😁
Uhm, yes, got a little carried away. But, well, I think everyone knows why by now 😅 Thanks!
Disclaimer: I think Dev has all rights to do anything with his project. Even things that he was promised not to do (it's not this case, it's just I'm saying about rights).
I wonder, though, why not roll model back if it failed (never seen anyone say that new model is good)? As he was written early, new model cost MORE to run, so he can both save money and keep those who liked old model happy (and I'm not only about complainers. Silent people who agree about Dev's rights, who liked previous model, will be happy too.). And secondly, it would be even better to give option to switch between models. So if someone like old model, that cost less, use less resources of the Dev.
Maybe I don't understand something, maybe I'm stupid (lmao. Stupidity is in my nick), but I see this as win-win.
Also he can use more ads and start accepting donations. And with more satisfied users, it will be more profitable/less expensive, to run the service.
Because it didn't fail yet, it's still a work in progress. And there were a LOT of people who complained about the old model. I suggest you take a look at the perchance commutinty on reddit, there are a lot more people than here, but even on lemmy you can see it when you take a closer look, for example: https://lemmy.world/post/36459439 atm, 3 up votes, 7 down votes. People do like the new model when it doesn't have hiccups due to finetuning the settings.
About letting people switch, I already mentioned it in a much older post: dev would have to set up the infrastructure first, which would probably take a lot of time. Maybe dev rather use this extra time to work on the new model. After all, it's already almost 2 months and you can see how people get impatient bc they don't understand how much workload this is for a single person.
As for the ads, dev deliberately chose to make them as minimal as possible to make it as user-friendly as possible. If ads get more invasive, people start to use adblock, too. IMO, perchance is a gift by dev to us, and maybe dev even takes pride in giving it completely free. That's the only explanation I can imagine why dev doesn't take donations, bc many people mentioned they'd love to. But even with such a big heart, dev faces limits in resources as time and money (and probably energy), that's why we don't get the old model.
Oh, also, to put it very simple: new model takes space, and space costs money. But the old model takes space, too, even when it's less. So running both takes much, much more space and much, much more money.