RIP SteamDB.
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Oh god please no ! Noooo !
is it bad or very bad or fucking bad?
If NexusMods is anything to go by, SteamDB will soon require an account to use, with strict limits unless you pay for premium access.
And then proceed to leak your username, e-mail and password.
Plus they're going to allow developers to hide whenever they make changes so we can track minor changes anymore
Fuck they're going to break/API Paywall IsThereAnyDeal aren't they
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In it they note SteamDB might finally gain a proper API for people to use, and there's no plans to put adverts on it.
Cool. 😃
But, they will be looking to commercialise it somehow - as they said, "SteamDB needs to make money".
Oh... Aaaaaaaand it's fucked.
Yes it's fucked because running servers costs a lot of money and SteamDB runs on donations. So I hope you did donate at some point when you used their services and disapprove of this development.
Being financial able to contribute is required to validate an opinion. Just like only the wealthy should vote.
Well if the opinion is „they shouldn’t be bought to sustain themselves financially“, yes.
Right, did you look up if they sold because of financial hardship? Pretty sure everything I've read has been about its owner personally suffering burnout and disillusionment with the current tech and internet landscape.
The owner can do whatever they want with their platform. I don’t feel entitled to an opinion because I never donated one cent to them.
Dude...it isn't an "opinion."
https://80.lv/articles/nexus-mods-owner-acquires-steamdb-after-co-founder-struggled-with-burnout
https://kotaku.com/nexus-mods-steamdb-steam-2000730486
https://www.techspot.com/news/113712-steamdb-acquired-nexus-mods-after-13-years-independent.html
Guy was even apparently looking for a replacement for himself for years before deciding to sell after burnout. So yes, saying it is because people did not donate isn't really consistent with the evidence and explicit reasoning the owner gave. You are not only expressing an opinion, but an unsubstantiated one.
Also, yes, it is hardly fair to say that people don't have a right to feel upset that a free service has the potential to no longer be free. In fact, what you've described, the need to spend money to do so, is antithetical to the philosophy behind that model. Chill out and adopt a more understanding perspective, it is seriously less work and more effective.
I meant the opinion to feel upset about the owner selling if I didn’t invest any resources, time nor money, into the provided service. I wasn’t talking about usage of said service which shouldn’t be gatekept if one opts out of donations of course.
You're still wrong even if it made sense to suggest those aren't interrelated. They're of course free to have that opinion because they're just taking the creator's own words as honest.
Why shouldn’t the owner sell if they are burned out?
What the fuck do you think you're saying rn?
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The same NexusMods that was bought up by a shady investment agency a while ago?
Yep, and we all knew it was as a good sign when at the initial announcement they didn’t announce who
Well, it was good while it lasted.
The theme of this millennium.
Is there an alternative to steamdb?
RIP
But... Why?
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Ough. Bad.
Great. Can't wait to have to pay to use that site.
that is so unfortunate /gen
eww
Well that sucks
The enshittification of the internet continues. This comes after a whole year of journalists and others sperging out about how steam charts were being weaponized by the chuds. Which I'm sure is just a coincidence!
Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well shit... i guess it's time to get as much out of it as possible and start looking for an alternative.
What's special about SteamDB that no real, fully fledged alternatives showed up yet? What would prevent someone from "forking" it?
They've been working on collecting data for a long time. They have a lot of established methods and data that a newcomer would have to do the work to replicate.
I'm not aware of anything they do being open source, so you couldn't just fork it. You'd have to start from scratch.
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you know, couldn't someone make a sort of decentralized git of game art assets and just have a client fetch the missing assets, dumping them into the steam library when it finds entries that dont have populated metadata? we dont actually need a centralized web page for this
Uh oh
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