Vid.me has announced that they are shutting down on December 15th 2017, saying that they could not find a path to sustainability.
This news should be of concern as content creators have been getting increasingly frustrated with Youtube's algorithms that demonetize their videos and this means they have one less alternative to turn towards.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday December 06 2017, @10:25PM (7 children)
I wish I had a magic answer to that, I don't. But I'm pretty sure that when you find yourself in a hole the first step is to stop digging.
As to compatibility, again, obviously this relies on using standards. Code that's written directly to a proprietary platform using proprietary libraries won't be out of the box portable, which is just one more good reason not to do that!
Ansi C is remarkably portable, and will do just about anything you might need to do. Make does an excellent job covering any cracks. And even if you decide you simply MUST have a fancy GUI that you can't do in ANSI, the meat of the program can still be done portably with well-defined interfaces so the next user can drop his own GUI into place with little effort.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday December 07 2017, @01:23AM (6 children)
Non-technical users will have no idea how to do that. Web applications avoid having to write the GUI six times.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday December 07 2017, @01:34AM (5 children)
But you only need one user who does.
UIs aren't hard to do, unless of course you're a 'professional designer' in which case you're going to make something atrocious anyway.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday December 07 2017, @04:56AM (4 children)
Non-technical users will probably have no idea how to find such a "user who does."
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday December 07 2017, @05:13AM (3 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday December 07 2017, @04:14PM (2 children)
Distros don't do the hard work of creating a new GUI from scratch. As I understand it, a request for package to the effect "Please package this application which already compiles and runs on your distro" is a lot more likely to get acted on than "Please write a new GUI from scratch for this application that has a GUI compatible with a competing operating system but not with your distro".
(Score: 1) by Arik on Thursday December 07 2017, @07:37PM (1 child)
You lost the context there, you clearly think you're contradicting me but you're not.
The distro picks up the UI, the users that wouldn't otherwise know how to find it get it from their repository.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday December 08 2017, @01:44PM
If a UI has even been created for the application which is compatible with that operating system. My point is that often one has not.