That's what people don't get about why so much Nostr software is buggy and websites are broken and stuff. Someone got paid to build that or built it in the expectation that they would get paid retroactively, and soon.
They don't worry about the quality because that isn't a prerequisite of getting the money, and they can actually charge the donors additional money to fix it. But the fix needs to be couched as an "improvement" or a "complete rewrite" because donors hate paying for maintenance. So, you let it rot and become unusable, so that everyone complains, and then you demand cash from the donors to fix it. Someone running a paid service collects money in real time, in exchange for maintenance and steady, incremental improvements. It's a completely different financing model, but it's why Highlighter's website is always half-broken and Nostr.Wine's never is.
Same way Deutsche Bahn lets the trains slowly rot away into disuse, so that they can get money to buy new ones, rather than maintaining the current ones at their own cost. But, as with Nostr software, there's a lag in getting the new ones, and everything just stays broken until then and your train stations become train graveyards and people wander off to cars and planes and buses, even though they actually preferred the whole train concept.
I guess the vibe-coding trend is the equivalent of the Bahn being like, yes, the train is broken. Woops LOL Sorry. There will eventually be a new, glorious, totally-revamped train. Until that Grand Day, here is an e-bike in a box. You can build it yourself and peddle from Berlin to Frankfurt.
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2025-05-06 07:35:54
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