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Too harsh on itch.io
2 months ago
Those of you who know me know me to be a very angry man. I tend to consider righteous indignation a sacrament. But let it never be said that I'm too proud to admit when I've been wrong. Being angry with itch.io was a knee jerk reaction, but in the few hours since this news broke, I've learned the situation. Itch.io is very small and cannot stand up to the combined legal might of payment processors or the shrill nagging of childless feminist karens.
I still am not returning to them until I see the real enemies in this whole thing broken, but I'm not mad at itch.io anymore. The other parties however (and discord, just because, y'know 'delenda est') I hope they drown in the combined shit of the internet. Today I think I'm seeing even SWORN ENEMIES uniting against this bitter coven of manhating harpies and the greasy payment processors behind them, and I think we're all going to love how it ends!
That is all
Discord Delenda Est
I still am not returning to them until I see the real enemies in this whole thing broken, but I'm not mad at itch.io anymore. The other parties however (and discord, just because, y'know 'delenda est') I hope they drown in the combined shit of the internet. Today I think I'm seeing even SWORN ENEMIES uniting against this bitter coven of manhating harpies and the greasy payment processors behind them, and I think we're all going to love how it ends!
That is all
Discord Delenda Est
Xaldon
~xaldon
Glad to hear you've cooled off a bit. hopefully Itch can salvage their reputation after this savaging but really a lot of folks are getting absolutely boned by the Payment Processors thinking they are parents guiding children. They are a platform not a content producer, otherwise The government can tax them like a regular company and My Goodness would their entire infrastructure collapse overnight if that were to happen.
Legokid
~legokid
How about a little malicious compliance? Whenever I go shopping, I call the payment processor I intend to use and ask if they approve of the purchase. "Hey Visa, can I buy groceries today or will that make you sad?" If enough people do it often enough and clog their phone lines maybe they will figure out how badly they f*cked up.
