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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Neither is it “your problem” if you steal apples from an old lady who grows them in her garden and sells them for dirt cheap in front of her house. Yet it is disrespectful and sort of inhumane (though the latter doesn’t totally carry over to an appname).

    Just because you can doesn’t mean you should, and if you wanted to run the new project under the exact same name, you should at least get a green light of the original dev, the person who had the idea. Respecting intellectual property (not sure if the legal term applies here) is always good behaviour.





  • Eh, kinda. It’s comparatively easy to set up an instance, as in “renting a VPS, figuring out how to use docker, installing docker, installing and configuring a reverse proxy, getting an SSL certificate, getting a domain, linking it all together, figuring out docker compose, and finally getting the instance connected to the open web”.

    But the upkeep of an instance is a whole other story. Constantly keeping an eye on user numbers, server and client performance, storage usage, needing to scale the machine up with a growing userbase while also managing the cost and somehow finding the cash to run it, plus the dread of being responsible for the data of users on that instance, requires a strong mind and a lot of time.

    While the technicalities are somewhat “easy”, expecting anyone to spin up an instance and manage the influx of hundreds to thousands of users in a short time seems unrealistic.