WashedOver

WashedOver, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

This seems to be the model I’ve witnessed with many apps over the years. Free at first to get traction and users, then ads, then pay one time fee to get rid of ads, then subscription to keep using the app.

Then there are those that wouldn’t even pay a single fee and get upset at the thought as everything should be free.

The part that is upsetting is the contributions the early community made is monetized when they were they there for the benefit of the community.

I do see there are costs to maintaining and updating these apps so I can understand a need to keep revenue flowing for these future costs. The one time payment is a hell of a deal for years with updates to accommodate the revisions needed for each system update let alone functionality improvements.

In the old days we would buy software for our PC and that was it. There wasn’t really any updates or further support for newer versions of Windows. The software would become very insecure or just stop functioning altogether with enough changes to windows.

It’s hard to find the right balance. I know I only want to pay once, or heck never, but I want these upgrades and updates too.

WashedOver, 9 months ago

That’s what I thought but it says I’m not logged in to message him and I can’t access the thread.

WashedOver, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

If it was the first one no, same for the second and third, but this one is off as it seems to be about their agenda not a bunch of stupid masturbation jokes

WashedOver, 9 months ago

I guess the same as it was at the old place too. Hopefully it doesn’t get too crazy here with that crap.

WashedOver, 9 months ago

Thank you for the info. I can’t log into Lemmy. World from a web browser or my Sync app. According to profile he’s in Ireland and probably asleep or at his age hopefully partying.

I’m just trying to understand these hidden rules. It’s not the first time I’ve bumped up against them and I didn’t think of the abortion angle. I’ll keep this in mind as it’s usually not top of mind for me.

WashedOver, 9 months ago

Ahh that makes more sense. I’m usually browsing via Hot so I missed the others

WashedOver, 9 months ago

Ok this works now.

I was about to say I believe you 100% but my browser would like to have a word.

I see that you have manually changed the link to the profile with my instance instead of the one I was sent.

Here’s where I got hung up. I couldn’t log into Lemmy.world either.

Thanks again!

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/e52c4255-a68b-4973-9064-1894d5c1f59c.png

WashedOver, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Thanks. I just figured that out. The original link kept taking me to a lemmy.world instance that I couldn’t log into. With the manually altered one from above I could message him for the hidden rules that aren’t posted in the side bar for Shitposting. Hopefully we can get those added to the side bar too.

This was the error I first received :

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/30474967-32de-48bc-997c-68458fee11d1.png

WashedOver, 9 months ago

Might actually been more damaging to his reputation if they were… 😂

WashedOver, 9 months ago

I now understand why mommy couldn’t wait for Santa to show up!

WashedOver, 9 months ago

I thought this was going to end with the same never washed sock, not the actual carpet…

WashedOver, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

The very first sound I thought of!

WashedOver, 9 months ago

Excellent, yes it was a company that spent multiple millions on SAP and everything went back to multiple versions of these excel spreadsheets the accountants maintained that contained all the costing, time, and labour rates. They also generated code to inject new SKUs into SAP. It seemed pretty fragile to me.

WashedOver, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I had been a servant leader for a number of years in a big corporation in a remote location where I could break away from their older 50’s style management structure. I had a great crew that was able to do wonderful things. The company took notice and wanted me to move to other locations. I wasn’t interested in moving so far away. I would be sent to train and show other locations how we streamlined so well. We eventually closed down our location as the largest customer *we served closed after 90 years.

I was going to walk away from it all then one of my old customers wanted me to come and help them grow, move, and re-invent themselves. I was able to bring in some of the old crew and it was a lot of heavy lifting. Having the ownership in the location didn’t make it easy as they were into the old 50s style mentality so it was a constant fight to implement all the great things they loved about my old location that served them. I was pretty burnt out by the end with being left to navigate Rona on my own with the crews when ownership went and hid in their homes. They didn’t take it seriously at first and then when they flipped it was left in my hands to deal with while they freaked out about the end of the world.

Eventually they sold to a larger company and I was excited for this change. Turns out the new company spouted everything that sounded good but they were so disfunctional and full of themselves it was tough. I was glad to go when they folded our location into another existing one.

I miss working with the people daily and helping them grow and remove those road blocks but I was tired out by the latest ownership disfunction especially when they drank their own Kool aid so much they couldn’t see how badly they were making it for the staff.

The only saving grace for this last ownership group was the previous ownership was so terrible, the new owners seemed like a good upgrade. They were in some ways. It wasn’t for those of us that had worked for structured and properly run companies. It’s been rough on the staff that remain and the steps backwards they had to endure in the process. The new owners are fairly certain they are doing great things. I wish them all luck and I’m glad to be out.

WashedOver, 9 months ago

Yes this exactly. If you need to do this you have hired the wrong people and/or the mission is not clear.

I decided I wasn’t going to be a prison warden early on in my career after trying to be one for the company.

We got so much further as a team when I use to make sure they had their birthday cakes and whatever other supplies or tools and got the hell out of their way.

Not a lot of people can trust others this much. It also takes initiative to weed out those that are not going to fit into the team quickly. 1 bad Apple can make the bunch go bad quickly.