How about this, then: It fills a niche, but it is full of bad decisions (and fragmentation), and survives mainly by its existing momentum. It's crap in the same sense that Unix is crap: the founder effect has made its flaws impossible to dislodge or rethink.
A popular solution to a problem is not necessarily a good solution to that problem.
There's nothing much to doubt. The evidence is always the same: "our web server logs show scrapers originating from IP addresses owned by someone who didn't pay us."
The Verge article is a little clearer. 100,000 threads pilfered over the past year with scraping! Oh no!
(See also: the actual legal filing. I have to admit the headings sound a little unstable.)
Just you wait—they're way more over-represented they are in subreddit moderators... and in the accelerationist movement.
"Actually" read them? Are there a lot of people running around purporting to have read TSR novels, or to have credentials that require doing so?
There are no real downsides to saying the 2026 version is 26 and the 2126 version is 126. It's just [year - 2000]; you can even imagine this is release 026 rather than 26. Personally I'd worry more about what happens in the year 3000 when they have to release version 1000.
Moreover—these are just version numbers, imitative of dates, rather than actual date fields. It's not like someone is going to be charged for unpaid bills because their iOS version number was accidentally parsed as being in the past. Take your damn pills, grandma!
You may call me by my name, Wirth, or by my value, Worth. - Nicklaus Wirth