Safari has pulled into a great position these days among browsers in my opinion, I'm in a transitioning period from Firefox myself and I've heard a lot of people saying the same, and not just on /r/apple.

But where it's always lacked and what has driven me away in the past has been extensions, the same extensions I enjoyed on other browsers were turds on Safari, barely functioning crap that you can almost feel lurching and chugging away around the edges of an otherwise smooth and snappy experience.

So honestly I don't have a problem if they're going to steer a little tighter towards a walled garden for Safari extensions to establish some consistency. Maybe they realized that extensions won't remain some fringe power user thing and are here to stay as a vital part of the browser.

And if that involves some increased barriers and fees towards the review process I don't really see anything wrong with that. Sure it's a nice ideal that it might be an open playing field but looking back at Firefox, it was performance issues that are driving me away, and I have no idea whether it was the browser itself or the few extensions I use, nor do I really care because the two go hand in hand as far as I'm concerned.

I never used RES, felt too committal to me, and I found the RES tag shit so annoying to hear about, an artificial assist to take what would be short lived community jokes into years long beatings of the ground where a dead horse once lay.

Anyways, all of that aside, I came here to say god damn is this post is whiny. I just don't fucking believe that RES hasn't pulled in healthy sums of donations in spurts when there's large thread publicity or appreciation.

Oh jesus, and I hadn't even noticed until now that you're in the middle of launching a paid service.

This $100 entry fee may be a sad story for someone somewhere, but not for a player like you.