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Vid.me to Shut Down on Dec 15th 2017

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday December 05 2017, @01:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the vid-off dept.

jonathan writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday December 07 2017, @04:14PM (2 children)

    by Pino P (4721) on Thursday December 07 2017, @04:14PM (#606847) Journal

    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".

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  • (Score: 1) by Arik on Thursday December 07 2017, @07:37PM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday December 07 2017, @07:37PM (#606959) Journal
    Yeah, exactly.

    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.
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    • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday December 08 2017, @01:44PM

      by Pino P (4721) on Friday December 08 2017, @01:44PM (#607174) Journal

      The distro picks up the UI

      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.