Anki's Growing Up
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Hi all, Anki’s 19th birthday was about 4 months ago. It would have been a good time to pause and reflect on what Anki has become, and how it will grow in the future. But I ended up letting the moment come and go, as I didn’t feel like I had the free time. It’s a feeling that’s been regrettably common of late, and I’ve come to realise that something has to change. For a number of years, I’ve reached out to some of the most prolific contributors and offered them payment in exchange for them cont...
  • sirdorius@programming.dev
    271·
    14 hours ago

    Excuse my skepticism (it comes with experience), but after reading through AnkiHub’s PR-speak AI slop, I doubt that a company with 40 employees that already uses a monthly subscription and AI is not going to enshittify this project. Did their team contribute anything to the OSS project while they were building a for profit company on top of it?

    • carrotfox@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      12 hours ago

      My guess is they’ll charge for data storage in their servers. It’s the lowest hanging fruit.

  • baguette@piefed.socialEnglish
    281·
    16 hours ago

    Time will tell. The words of AnkiHub are quite comforting, as it seems they are a small organisation focused on med students. It also seems they were surprised themselves with the offer they received when asking for collaboration.

    They also say they will keep it open source 🤞