Why? Blizzard seems to have taken a game that many people grew up with and made it easier for casual players (some of those same people who grew up with it who now have jobs/kids/fuller life) to still be involved. I find it great that I can just click a button to find a raid group for the few hours I have a night to play. I can still experience the end game content without the time consuming grind to get the right gear and people to do it. Even if I still want to do that, I can with the heroic/mythic difficulties. Convenience has made the game way more accessible to way more people.
You can still have social encounters and camaraderie. That wasn't taken away. Before, you were forced into social interactions which isn't always everybody's cup of tea.
>Difficulty made it so that people felt pride in what they had achieved.
There are still plenty of difficult tasks still in the game mixed with achievements/mounts that can give you the same level of pride and satisfaction.
I actually have a question here, why would they re-release BC? Isn't the point of Classic to keep it in a certain period of time? When many people started the game and thought it was at its "peak"?
On a side-note: would it be interesting to have a second branch of the game, maybe not called Classic, that would follow the main-line of the game, but would be a large chunk of expansions behind? That way people could relive those old expansions as if they were the latest one released. Personally, I think I would be much more on board with that since the game would actually change over time.
My personal opinion, as soon as they forced the merge into the Twitch client, the quality went down greatly. The old Curse client was much simpler, easier to understand, and didn't have all of Twitch crammed into it all. It really didn't make sense to have an "all-in-one" application since both parts seemed very different in terms of audience.
To be fair, the amount of cheaters has gone down a lot in my games. There has to be some middle ground. I paid for a game that I want to be fair and fun for everyone. Fall Guys with cheaters takes away 100% of the fun.
>First of all, one common statistic is that 90% of trash in the ocean that comes from people dumping it (in rivers) comes from just 10 rivers, all in China/Asia.
>So while still very clever, I sadly don't think this could ever make a difference.
I get what you mean by this, but why can't these solutions be used in places that are willing to make a difference? Anywhere this is deployed is making a difference locally. In the grand scheme of the world, yes we do need some big solutions to get some places up to speed but if a bubble wall cleans up some of the 10% other plastic in the water, then I am all for it. We can't keep our heads in the sand over the 90%, but we need to be happy about the small victories we can get.
I remember hearing about the machine that picks up trash in Baltimore at the Inner Harbor. It would take the current and push the trash into the machines conveyor belt. It was probably pick up a percent of a percent of the total world trash, but it made the harbor area much cleaner.
>I get what you mean by this, but why can't these solutions be used in places that are willing to make a difference?
Our efforts (and resources) might be better allocated in an area that has a bigger impact. This is basically the idea behind cap and trade. Why spend $10 to pick up 1 ton of plastic waste in the first world (made up numbers), when you can spend $10 to pick up 5 tons of plastic waste in asia? A more concrete example would be the water conservation measures in calfiornia a few years ago. The vast majority of the water usage is by agriculture, but residents were asked to engage in water saving practices (not watering laws, short showers, opt-in water at restaurants) at great inconvenience to them, even though any savings would be a drop in the bucket overall.
I see what you mean, but at the same point, the $10 to pick up 5 tons of plastic in Asia doesn't seem to be happening for whatever reason. My reasoning is that $10 to pick up 1 ton of plastic is still a good option since the $10 to pick up 5 tons is not a guarantee.
>Another important thing is that I take long breaks (several weeks) whenever I feel I need to — which is probably harder to do if I’m a full time employee at a company.
A "Patreon-funded full-time job position" and the ability to take weeks off at a time? What an amazing career path Evan has taken. He sounds so passionate about Vue and he is fully funded to be able to do it. And what a good project to fund, always moving forward but at the same time pushing for the features that users want.
It sounds lucrative and leisurely, sure, but it's not a career path I'd personally be interested in, because (caveat: I don't know the guy, I'm not involved in Vue, etc; generalizations ahead) he's very much a community manager, possibly moreso than a developer. He's got huge responsibilities and accountability, whereas I prefer to be (proverbially) holed up in a basement with my work laid out for me.
I mean I basically have online social anxiety in that I don't tend to go read my old comments and possible responses to it. I rant without standing for and defending what I say. If you run a project like Vue, you can't avoid things like that.
This is what you'd expect, but he is very hands-on trying out technical ideas. I would look through his tweets to see the things he gets involved with.
Recently he built Vite to see if it'd be possible to have a dev setup with no bundling (just using ES modules). It's evolved since then, but he picks up work a lot on new ideas and seeing how it can drive the direction of Vue.
I experience similar anxiety. For too long I kept my profiles (GitHub/Twitter/..) pseudo-anonymous. So that If I mess up somewhere I don't have to face the consequences after I shut that account down. This is primarily due to social anxiety rather than having any malicious intent.
Accountability! It can be scary, but it's also important and a driver for positive change.
I deal with all of these things as well, but have pretty much decided to not go the anonymous route, because I would rather try to build that confidence in myself and embrace the accountability that comes along with it.
That said, I still don't comment or publish much online out of this same anxiety. /shrug. It's a work in progress :)
I had that too until I ramped up my own noise signal. With twitter I hooked up a couple of RSS feeds via IFTTT. I do tweet more but send out 20 RSS tweets also. Perfectionist is a creativity killer. Nobody fact checks and remembers what you tweeted a month ago.
I do keep my hn profile low profile because it is also nice to have an outlet for fresh idea's and opinions that need refinement. I actually change my mind the most about things I comment in on HN. On my work everything is within the Overton window.
It sounds pretty good until you realise that it is the peak of open source full time job. And survivorship bias is taking place here.
Evan took a huge leap of faith when he quit his job for working full time on vue. I am happy that it has worked out well for him.
But it does not mean this path will work for other open source developers, of course they can still get corporate backing(node.js) or paid to work on it (react/angular) or make a business offering around it (laravel/tailwind)
This is new and exciting but we must understand the use case. For solo developers on projects with a huge amount of github stars this might make sense. It enables you to work on the project full time.
The tailwind project model seems like it would pay better. The profit amount might make for sense for the pretty popular project vs the extremely popular project. It's a compromise because you stop working on the core project and start building these additional businesses that take time/effort away the project.
Corporate backing would make sense but enterprise has picked react. Vue lives because it's a great framework that is easily assessible not because it started as a corporate sponsored project with a popularity boost buildin.
>$16,000/mo, enough to cover his salary along with his new hire
That's $192k, pre-tax, between two people and likely infrastructure and tooling costs. Most developers of You's skill earn nearly double that at FAANG companies.
Yes. He would more than double that by joining at the E5/L5 level at Facebook/Google, which he's almost certainly qualified to do. But given the success of Vue.js and his status in the JS community, he'd probably be a marquee hire at the E6/L6 level.
However he would be sacrificing a lot of autonomy to do so, because Vue.js would effectively be developed under the same corporate stewardship model as React and Angular. He doesn't make as much money as he could given his accomplishments, but he maintains broad control and ownership over his work.
Likewise his Patreon sponsorships can increase over time as Vue.js increases in adoption. And if he wants more income, he can take on lucrative consulting contracts for Vue.js deployments with large tech companies. A few of those per year would likely meet or exceed everything he's bringing in through Patreon.
So that’s his Patreon earnings. Looks like he’s also making money from OpenCollective, and if I’m adding it all up correctly it’s about what an E6/L6 at Facebook/Google would make?
Isn't running a project more about the outcome than putting in as much time as possible? Also taking long breaks could potentially mean being AFK but still obsessing about next steps in the project. Maybe you're imagining him being on a tropical island drinking mochito's during the long breaks?
For me it's the opposite. I dread to see a Patron cancel so I can't take any time off since I'm imagining any "slacking" will lead to cancellations. It really feels like a race against the clock with every Patron is on a thin line.
With link rot and all the lost pages of the day, I really do wonder how much information and effort is just lost to the sands of time over the years. This truly makes the Internet Archive such an important tool for everything we do on the internet. I know that is a commonly held belief here, but I really think many regular users need to come in contact with it and see the great benefit it has for us all.
