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About 50% of their sponsors are gambling websites. So sad.
by justmedep 2y ago
About 50% of their sponsors are gambling websites. So sad.
- chimen 2y agobecause it has follow links im there. It's a SEO spam.
- creata 2y agoDo they sponsor just for the SEO (getting your website mentioned on a frequently-visited website) or is there more to it?
- afavour 2y agoUsually it’s because the company uses the software in question and wants to ensure it sticks around. In this instance it feels a little weird. No good reason why a CSS framework would be particularly suited for gambling site operations, you may be right that it’s an SEO play.
- tylerchilds 2y agothe answer is performance css is the most performant way to create interactive experiences if gaming (gambling in this genre) sponsored react, their customers would use a more performant poker app. react can barely handle being reddit.
- afavour 2y agoHighly unlikely. HTTP latency is going to matter 1000x more than React. If anything you'd expect to see them sponsoring WebSocket libraries or something.
- tylerchilds 2y agoi’m talking layout, paint, composite you’re talking network javascript, which i write every day and love, fundamentally can do what i’m talking about through shaders in webgl or webgpu but people generally reach for react, which is the performance bottleneck in the rendering loop i’m describing because javascript is fundamentally inefficient at graphics and why the technologies i’m referencing were implemented with javascript bindings in the first place. i agree the network is important, but it is generally the last bit in a call stack for any given user interaction.
- afavour 2y ago> i’m talking layout, paint, composite > you’re talking network I'm talking overall page performance. A gambling site using React vs not is going to have an absolutely tiny impact compared to network latency. They're sponsoring this framework as an SEO play.
- xaerise 2y agoMost common are that multiple gambling sites are own by one company. So if the company sponsors, you can put multiple brands on (and for SEO purposes).
- thunderbong 2y agoWhy is it sad?
- iwontberude 2y agoHard to see how casinos are much more exploitative than Silicon Valley social media companies. And they sponsor lots of tech.
- theressadder 2y agoNo. There's sadder. Some of those are sellers of fake likes/follows on social media.
- firecall 2y agoI hate gambling ads and casinos. But I reckon in this case, if I had to guess, I think maybe it's an external or internal developer that's making lots of Casino websites. Maybe they work for a group that owns all those brands? Surely it can't be individual casinos, where Bullma is big in the Casino website development space and has grown in that sector by word of mouth!? LOL
- Semaphor 2y agoIt’s rather common for mid-sized OSS projects to have a lot of gambling sponsors for the links. Cheaper than ads.
- Averave 2y agoI've seen other open source projects with tons of gambling sponsors, it's not just Bulma. My guess is that it's a relatively cheap way to get links for SEO.
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- sumnole 2y agoDon't discount Bulma because of this though. It's quite a joy to use.