I wish they'd ease up on the whole "don't change the logo without paying us" thing. The furry anime character is a turnoff for anyone with a brand or personal image that doesn't mesh with those subcultures.

It's actually a genius idea. If you are someone who the professional presentation of not having an anime girl on the loading page is required, then you can afford to fork over the cash to fund development.

> is a turnoff for anyone with a brand or personal image that doesn't mesh with those subcultures.

Most people either don’t know or don’t care about “those subcultures”. I bet a lot of older people think it’s a cartoon figure of Betty Boop (nurse) and miss the furry bit since it appears and disappears quickly. Most people also don’t have a brand.

So it seems like you’re describing a concern that only affects a tiny fraction of people:

- Not interested in paying for custom branding, so obviously not a corporation or influencer

- Dislikes cartoons

- Aware of, and hostile towards, “furry” subculture

That has to be an exceedingly small fraction of potential users of Anubis, and given how much businesses and branders will pay to custom-brand something, I’d counsel them to stay the course. Sure, a few never-payers will never pay, but they wouldn’t have anyways, so they can cope with Nurse Betty or look elsewhere for a competing free product.

If you think about this in physical market square terms — in other words, a bazaar — it seems horrendously rude to complain about a shop logo sticker on a free product handed out to anyone that walks up and asks for it. If you want it white-labeled so you can write your own name/logo on it, you pay for the privilege of displacing their name with yours. But you don’t stand there and loudly complain that their shop mascot has dog ears while holding a freebie bag of product, without losing the respect of everyone who hears you doing so.

If you have a brand or personal image that you are investing in, you can surely afford to invest in paying for a branded version of Anubis.

I'd argue its rather functioning exactly as intended with regards to obtaining paid users.

Also this view seems a bit elderly. For most towards the end of the millennial curve and younger, anime is no longer subculture, its just general culture at this point. Although I would agree it isnt necessarily what you'd want for every platform and web presence.

How hard is it to maintain a fork that changes nothing except the logo?

If you can't be bothered to maintain a trivial fork, then why should the author of anubis be bothered to serve your branding needs? It's not like you have a service contract or anything do you?

I think that's partly why they do it? If you care about that, you should pay?

Pay to change logo??? Just fork Anubis and remove one div... It's not SaaS first software, you're expected to deploy it on your web server.

I wish my rent would stop going up year over year.

They're not stopping you. They're asking you politely not to.

You just discovered their business model congrats.

haproxy-protection is an alternative.

It's MIT licensed, you are free to do whatever you want to it, including removing the logo. They're basically just saying "we'd prefer you didn't do this, but we're not preventing you from doing it."

It's open source, just ask your AI agent to change the logo.

that's really smart of them. Just pay to use the service you need.

you really revved the weebs with this one

You wish they'd give your preferable imagery for free and not make you feel bad for using their free software for personal gain. Your subculture is irrelevant and not special.

If you 'don't mesh' with that then you are not worth protecting anyway :)