pmhobson

$5,000 on the MTB. The rest on airfare (or gas), lodging and meals for MTB trips.

It sounds like he went on sabbatical, and during said sabbatical he came to the conclusion that he didn’t want to return. This isn’t a rare thing in the scheme if demanding careers (especially at bike industry + journalist wages)

@elyari: hey that last response wasn’t directed at you. Sorry.

@elyari: hey I contribute to open source code bases almost weekly. So of those contributions are to libraries that were used to generate content on this very website. I also use those same open source libraries to make money with code and data that I don’t share with the world. And a lot of that data I compiled from free sources. But that doesn’t mean that my time with clients is free. But the open source mode doesn’t apply here. Paying good software developers to develop good software doesn’t run on hopes and dreams and wishes. It costs money. I don’t care how big your pile of data is. It’s worthless without a good and reliably available interface. All of the freely-shared data is still freely available on the website. Only access via the mobile app costs money. I paid for the app, because I *really* want Trailforks to continue. But I rarely use the app. I’d guess 90% of my usage is browsing on the web, planning a route, and then sending that to my GPS head unit. That’s free for everyone. But if you can make a mobile app for free, tell me where to email my data and I’ll send it to you.

Want me to email you a pile of GPX files and then you can make a globally-available mobile app concurrently used by 1000s of people daily for free, in your spare time?

@pinkbert: my point is that canadaka is a huge Trailforks user. He’s posted so many photos of so many trails. He’s contributed an enormous amount of content himsefn And I’m hardly bent out of shape if I’m making Hair Club for Men references