In May 2024, we did an intentional 180 on many foundational theses underpinning Kiwi News. The most major being that we had allowed the website to be 100% usable by any user, paying or non-paying, logged in or not logged in. As a method of discovering more information, since I found that allowing anyone to use the site enabled free riding, we hence pay-walled the site, disabled our Warpcast and Twitter bots, and forced users to add an application key and an active wallet connection. We actually didn’t do this because we thought this was the better way forward but because we had learned that how we had done things prior hadn’t worked out for us.
Hardly any changes matter
Hardly any changes matter
Hardly any changes matter
In May 2024, we did an intentional 180 on many foundational theses underpinning Kiwi News. The most major being that we had allowed the website to be 100% usable by any user, paying or non-paying, logged in or not logged in. As a method of discovering more information, since I found that allowing anyone to use the site enabled free riding, we hence pay-walled the site, disabled our Warpcast and Twitter bots, and forced users to add an application key and an active wallet connection. We actually didn’t do this because we thought this was the better way forward but because we had learned that how we had done things prior hadn’t worked out for us.