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MDN Plus announcement

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    stu2b50
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    Somewhat interesting: Mozilla is doing some A/B testing on the price. At the bottom, it'll either say "$10 a month or $100 a year" OR "$5 a month or $50 a year". This is just cookie-based; you can...

    Somewhat interesting: Mozilla is doing some A/B testing on the price. At the bottom, it'll either say "$10 a month or $100 a year" OR "$5 a month or $50 a year". This is just cookie-based; you can see for yourself with incognito mode on Chrome or something like that (or, you can actually just delete the cookie in dev tools) it'll randomly pick one of the two options.

    Perhaps a little too obvious for MDN, which by its nature is mostly visited by web developers. Also quite a big price jump - the B is 2x the A.


    Overall I have mixed feelings. On one hand, it's probably best that MDN have its own revenue stream given Mozilla's struggles, and freemium isn't the worst. On the other hand, with the MDN staff recently gutted, the move to JAMStack, and other cost cutting measures, it's not hard to imagine some... incentives contrary to the MDN mission.

    The features.. I'm not super sure if they're a great value. If they pick $5/month it's not terrible assuming they keep pumping content out, but I'm surprised it's more like a webdev newsletter. I would've thought a more dev support pivot - say, a private forum to get web dev help or consulting, industry standard templates, etc. If nothing else, companies would pay way more than $5/month for that.

    Or something like the ability for companies to have "team" instances, where members can highlight, edit parts of the docs, send them over slack, etc.

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    1. teaearlgraycold
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      What I expected when first opening the link was that this would be some kind of tool to help web devs document non-standard, proprietary web technology. Like how StackOverflow offers an enterprise...

      Or something like the ability for companies to have "team" instances, where members can highlight, edit parts of the docs, send them over slack, etc.

      What I expected when first opening the link was that this would be some kind of tool to help web devs document non-standard, proprietary web technology. Like how StackOverflow offers an enterprise version that companies can use as an internal knowledge base.

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  2. [2]
    Pistos
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    I don't do as much frontend work as I used to, but I'm not seeing much value here. Even if it were priced at $1 a month. I might be more inclined to give money to a cause like "become a Supporter...

    I don't do as much frontend work as I used to, but I'm not seeing much value here. Even if it were priced at $1 a month. I might be more inclined to give money to a cause like "become a Supporter of Firefox at 2 USD per month".

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    1. rmgr
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      I'm sure there's a good reason why they don't do that but I would definitely sign up to a patreon or whatever for Firefox

      I'm sure there's a good reason why they don't do that but I would definitely sign up to a patreon or whatever for Firefox

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