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I'm genuinely confused why there is so much backlash against the Commons Clause. Ignoring for a second the confusion around RedisLabs and its relationship with Redis core, the Commons Clause is setting out to solve the following problem with open source:

  - A person or company creates an open-source library, at great cost of time and effort.
  - A big company adds that library to their cloud offerings, at arguably far lesser cost, and monetizes it.
  - The library author receives no compensation.

This article seems to argue against the Commons Clause because it's not 'true open source,' but this seems like a purely ideological argument that sidesteps the true problem that CC is trying to solve: open source creators not getting a cut of the profit they are generating for big companies. Am I missing something here?

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Thanks for the feedback! All good points. I definitely need to add some sharing capabilities in there. In the future I'll give users the option to switch between grid and list views, but for now I just want the site out there for people to use and give me feedback on.

Anti-repost functionality is another thing I'm working on and will add in a future release.

Yeah, I agree. I removed the 'pick your sites' copy altogether - I didn't really need it anyway.

True. Perhaps 'services' or 'social networks' might be better words?

Thank you freshfey! Glad you like it!

I used the online Stanford CS139P class and some PeepCode screencasts to get started. I come from a web dev background so it was difficult for me at first to wrap my head around Objective-C, but after using those two resources I was able to understand the syntax (and the SDK) much more clearly.