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minus-squarerefalo@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-29 hours agoI don’t understand how/why this got so popular out of nowhere… the same solution has already existed for years in the form of haproxy-protection and a couple others… but nobody seems to care about those.
minus-squareFlipper@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up28·8 hours agoProbably because the creator had a blog post that got shared around at a point in time where this exact problem was resonating with users. It’s not always about being first but about marketing.
minus-squareJohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-22 hours ago It’s not always about being first but about marketing. And one has a cute catgirl mascot, the other a website that looks like a blockchain techbro startup. I’m even willing to bet the amount of people that set up Anubis just to get the cute splash screen isn’t insignificant.
I don’t understand how/why this got so popular out of nowhere… the same solution has already existed for years in the form of haproxy-protection and a couple others… but nobody seems to care about those.
Probably because the creator had a blog post that got shared around at a point in time where this exact problem was resonating with users.
It’s not always about being first but about marketing.
And one has a cute catgirl mascot, the other a website that looks like a blockchain techbro startup.
I’m even willing to bet the amount of people that set up Anubis just to get the cute splash screen isn’t insignificant.