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Wow the same shitty step as Kavita… Kavita has an annoying floating donate button, can only disabled with Kavita+

A few features are only available with Kavita+… I am waiting for the point that new features are only available with subscription…

This is like cancer imho and the reason why I switched to Komga. I like to support via donation, but I want to choose when and how much I donate.

Maybe someone will fork GameVault and keep it opensource.

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Thanks for the Komga recommendation, will have to try it out.

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First of all GameVault was never Open Source. Secondly this is not anything like that and I’m sad you didn’t even read the full blog post. It even says it’s not a shitty enterprise move.

It is just a way to give something back to people who would donate anyway. The plus features are designed to be bypassable with minimal effort if you don’t want to pay for it. The extra features are not important to use the app as usual. Please read before you judge.

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It is just a way to give something back to people who would donate anyway.

Now they need to donate monthly or yearly…

The plus features are designed to be bypassable with minimal effort if you don’t want to pay for it.

Same for Photoprism, just build it yourself 🙄

The extra features are not important to use the app as usual.

Not at the moment. I am very sceptical. Same for Kavita. Time will show where the journey goes.

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Could you clarify your specific issue then?

We dedicate our free time to improving and maintaining this software. While yes, we encourage monthly donations, to have some MRR to calculate with and run a business, it’s still optional.

As you say, if you can’t donate, you can still self-compile.

Is your issue with us seeking financial support of 5€ a month to maintain servers and justify our time investment towards our families?

We’re a small indie team of two balancing multiple jobs, and a small monthly contribution helps sustain our efforts in delivering quality features for our free software.

Honestly, go bash some triple a enterprise studios for running loot boxes and shit even though you pay 70€ for their games instead.

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Not sure if it makes sense a €60/year subscription for visualizing via web a collection of pirated/cracked games (this is the old crackpipe, right?)

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It makes sense for the devs :)

Yes this was Crackpipe. They renamed it

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It is the old crack pipe but it already features way more than just visualizing your game collection and there are a bunch more features in the oven.

The 49€ a year have been selected very carefully and when comparing it to other subscriptions today, are actually pretty reasonably priced.

You don’t need the subscription or it’s features to use GameVault. It’s designed to be totally optional and bypassable. If you enjoyed using it until now, nothing will change for you. See plus more like a “thank you” for a 5€ donation monthly instead of a real subscription service. You can compare it to stuff like patreon.

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makes software for pirates

please avoid pirated versions

Good luck with that.

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you do you, its just a warning because of potential malware, i’d personally rather self-compile than pirate something when i have the damn source-code.

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