I think the word doesn't have a good analogue, so I support it. I wish it sounded a bit less sophomoric, but the concept is sound, because it's the intentional worsening of a product to extract more revenue, not just by charging more, but by being worse for the intended purpose.
I don't think degradation or decay capture this...those are more associated with a process in nature, or due to the laws of physics, but especially something unintentional (like "bit rot").
I like Cory Doctorow, so I might be a bit biased here. Would be interested in alternatives that capture the intentional aspect.
I don't know, I like that it somehow implies it is caused by humans. Decay is a natural process, sometimes unavoidable. Degredation is often used in the same sense. But human and organisational decisions are driving this.
A proper single-pane WYSIWYG editor that uses Typst under the hood would be able to stop the MSWord train by matching the features end users need.
- Small caps, no problem.
- Multilevel heading numbering, no problem
- Table of Authority, no problem
- Line numbers, no problem.
- Paragraph numbers, no problem.
- For missing features the community is more than capable of providing extensions to fill the gap. Redlining would be an example.
Your Calibri font is Microsoft proprietary and is not open source. It exists so that MS Office documents won't look right on non-Microsoft systems. It's a dirty aspect of Microsoft's Embrace-Extend-Extinguish stategy meant to further its monopoly. It's disgusting that you cite all of these wonder benefits of Calibri without admitting the true underlying reason it exists.
I came to this conclusion as well. The README gives off some vibes but the sheer volume and writing style of the code comments is what really sells it for me. For example:
// Enhanced styling with column-specific classes and alignment
This sort of marketing-speak isn't what people typically put in their code, LLMs love buzzwords. It's not just this, it's everything, but hopefully you get what I mean.
The mindless code comments are a dead giveaway. It's always the same pattern of:
"a thing" <--- here is a thing
Generally a dev would clean these up, but when they don't it's a major red flag to me that it's just unreviewed vibe coded slop.
No privacy loving person will comply with Discord on this matter.
Discord is doomed to only have weak compliant users on its platform.
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