The Fate of Tyrlon and other Dubious Things

So right after I quit Entrecard (well still trying to quit actually), they made a host of changes including allowing people to buy ECs and paying you 25 ECs for new blog posts (but only once every three days).

It is interesting that they are trying to maintain high value for entrecard credits but creating new ways to generate credits more easily is only going to result in ECs being worth less and less.  The changes won’t convince me to come back because the widget did slow down my site load time some and I just don’t want to ever feel obligated to do drops.

I still don’t miss it although i’ll miss the readers that may have dropped by and commented.  I enjoy writing mainly so that people will read it, but i’ll write to the internet with nobody reading if I have to just so I can put my thoughts “out there” into the void.

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In other news, the demo for DeedCAD is coming along well and working on making a demo allowed my fellow coder and I to come up with various ways to try to restrict the application to a limited number of uses to make it time-based etc.  One thing we figured out is that at some point you have to maintain the principles of KISS - keep it simple stupid.  Whenever you try to get overly complex to you make it slightly harder for the pirates to steal your software but you also inconvenience your users, make things more prone to failure and don’t really help yourselves sell more software anyway.

In the end, our motto for software we create is going to be: if someone is willing to go to the effort to get past our security efforts, they weren’t going to buy the software anyway so it isn’t a lost sale.  Perhaps this is slightly unconventional wisdom, but like StarDock we like to think that treating your customers like criminals to start with is a bad way of doing business.  Hopefully this model of doing business will work out for us and our software won’t get pirated to kingdom-come.  However, if it does at least i’ll know that what we’ve created is valued by someone because they want to use it enough to crack it!  That is a little piece of gratification by itself, even if i’m not getting anything out of it more than pride in my own work.

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