AMO just approved a Skipscreen release in only 2 hours. We’re impressed.
Thanks and congratulations to the Mozilla folks for slaying the addon moderation queue!
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Self-hosted Skipscreen: Why it happened and why it will rule.
Posted by Skipscreen
on December 2, 2009
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So yeah, we’re now offering a self-hosted version of Skipscreen on skipscreen.com. Here are some of the reasons why:
- There were some important features Mozilla wouldn’t let us include (including captcha skipping).
- Mediafire is detecting Skipscreen and showing our users fake-friendly “tsk tsk” messages instead of just giving them the file they want. As daffy duck said, “thith meanth war”, so we need uber-fast update capability.
- AMO has made a great effort to get the download queue under control, and lately it’s been very fast. But around the Firefox 3.5 release things got ridiculous and we were waiting months for an update. We can’t afford to be depending on that again, especially if our growing popularity means that download sites are taking notice and breaking us
Advantages to you, the user, will include faster updates (especially for Mediafire) and some too-hot-for-Mozilla features like anti-captcha. So get the self-hosted version today!
Skipscreen safe, for now!
Posted by Skipscreen
on October 10, 2009
1 comment
Mozilla has said they won’t cave to Mediafire’s takedown request. This is so the right answer, and it’s what we expected from an organization as dedicated to defending the web as Mozilla (we just got a bit of a fright for a second there )
It’s also comforting that a second group of lawyers from an established organization (one with a lot more on the line than us) have looked into Mediafire’s cease and desist and consider it toothless.
Mediafire still could come after us directly. But I think with the press they’ve already generated, they’re realizing that the more they come after us, the more people will hear about Skipscreen, and love it. (Which also suggests a plan: the best way to defend Skipscreen is for all our supporters to spread the word in as many places as they can).
It’s a good day for Firefox extensions that push hard to put you in control of the web.
P.S. Thanks Jennifer Granick, Fred von Lohmann, Eva Galperin and everybody at EFF. You all are stars.
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