Originally Posted by Sharlikran
Cyxui created a site that is used by tens of thousands of users for over 7 years. Thousands of user a day. How many people have thanked him?
Some players are members of smaller guilds in small out of the way locations. Guilds that aren't in major cities or guilds in Outlaws Refuges. These people depend on visitors using TTC to find what they are selling.
Make a TTC website and see how you will finance it with the traffic that it gets for people searching for items to purchase. Then you can have an opinion.
I worked on TES5Edit with Zilav and Hlp back in 2012 and brought a tool that was directly responsible other then the fact mod authors had to use it that directly impacted the modding community for the last decade. I can empathize with doing thankless work for the benefit of others not once asking for anything in return.
Besides that he may find a way to fund the site differently. He may also have others help him host the search capabilities on another site. Which could also have adds and they may have a better way to still show adds even with adblocker. Now that the author has asked for help there are people trying to come up with alternatives to help him.
People trying to resolve the issue. That is constructive and has a meaningful purpose.
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Ok but why does any of that give him the right to pull shady practices like forced ads and data selling?
I appreciate the free work. I appreciate everything a lot of you have done for the community.
Even if I disagree with you strongly right now Sharlikran, you're absolutely prolific in the ESO community and you've done some great work.
Regardless, none of you are free from criticism.
I'm not the only person who disagrees very strongly with what is going with the TTC website. I'm just the only person who managed to find this thread.
And I have given constructive feedback, the ESOUI moderators deleted it.
I literally asked him to create a Patreon. There's no way the community wouldn't rally around that.
But it wasn't even a option and cyx won't even respond to it.
So it's kind of hard to give him any benefit of the doubt in this situation.