This doesn't seem right at all, a critic's job is to drive page views and nothing more. What you are describing is how critic's like to perceive themselves.
I would have made this be /about or something like that and had the landing page be something more traditional. I don't think repeat visitors are going to want to scroll through a presentation like that all of the time. But that could be what they ultimately do, I wouldn't be surprised if they moved it.
I've ran into a similar problem but not a quota error, sometimes large Blobs simply fail to save for no reason in Chrome. It's only certain blobs and not others. Never tracked down why, but it rendered idb unusable for me in that application.
You're concentrating on the time period when IE was the only game in town and ignoring the 10 or so years post Firefox/Chrome (until basically they switched to Chromium) when it was behind the times and was a tremendous drain on web development.
Any attempt to say that otherwise is just wildly incorrect.
I'm an artist that doesn't like photorealism. I can appreciate the skill without wanting to spend much time looking at it. The imperfections and accidents are what make art pieces interesting to me.
Typical security engineer opinion. This "feature" is costing the industry tens, perhaps hundreds of million of dollars in wasted salary hours but it's worth it to you in the off-chance .1% are even potentially affected. Because only your job matters.
Sanctions are almost always too weak. Any sanction that the government can withstand is too weak and will have the affect you describe. A strong sanction that says "release the prisoner immediately" will be short and not affect citizens long enough to create such a sentiment.
I think it comes down to viewing habits. If you like to browse and watch anything interesting then recommendations are probably good enough and you'll like YouTube. But if you're looking for something specific (which I tend to do) then recommendations don't help. As great as a video might be, that's not the subject I want to watch right now.
I searched for lawn care videos 2 years ago and still get suggestions in my feed. The videos might be great, but it's not a subject I want to watch. This is pretty common from what I see.
How do you find this stuff? YouTube is so full of absolute garbage that's it's a struggle to find something worth watching. I watch painting videos on YouTube but spend way too much time digging.
It's like having a startup with 1 full-time salesperson and 3 part-time engineers. It would never work unless you already have a product (which Babel does).
I sort of get the idea of spending your money trying to sale an existing product but it doesn't seem to have worked in this case. That doesn't mean allocating the money differently would have worked either (arguably it would have been better for current patrons though).
I don't understand what an "ecosystem project" even means. Every language has an ecosystem. There isn't a separate name for the ecosystem. Why is there here?