I used to really like Habitica…
I used to really like Habitica despite the bugginess. Yes, there were things that could be improved (like the ability to import complex tasks would be very nice!), but I liked the theme, I liked supporting a small business, and even though I'm not a generally social person and didn't hang out in the social places, I felt safe with its reputation for LGBT-friendliness and no-tolerance policies for harassment.
Then they abruptly fired all the volunteer mods that kept the social spaces safe, and seem to have started banning anyone who makes their lives more difficult -- which means banning the people who complain about harassment, but ignoring the harassers. I don't feel like it's a safe space for vulnerable people anymore.
I also don't feel like it's safe to assume I'll have an account tomorrow! I have seen a staff member act very aggressively, threatening to ban someone for making a good-faith suggestion in a fairly obscure, if technically public, chat area. The person threatened wasn't me, but what if I'm the next person who says something well-intentioned, and the staff decide to go off the deep end? I'm definitely not putting any more real money into a platform this unstable.
On the topic of subscribing, though, I have to say I was honestly a bit underwhelmed by the subscriber-only benefits. One of the reasons I subscribed is that I'm a bit of a completionist, so I thought "collect everything" might make a bit of a motivating goal. However, after subscribing and seeing how many gems I got each month, I realized it would take something like 10 years of subscribing to actually collect all of the past backgrounds, not to mention all the past grand gala outfits. And the past subscriber-only outfits can only be purchased with hourglasses, which you only get 4 of per year. 12 get released each year, so for each year you *weren't* subscribed, it'll take 3 years of being subscribed to catch up. Plus there's some pets & mounts you can only get by using hourglasses.
Not to mention that the subscriber-only outfits are often of lower artistic quality than the ones the volunteers make, and frequently they're just recolors of past subscriber-only outfits.
I still like Habitica's theme, but it doesn't feel like a safe space anymore, and it *certainly* doesn't feel like a small business worth supporting. No company with venture capital should be relying as much on volunteer labor as they have been. I have to wonder how much longer the company will last -- they might have only "fired" the volunteer mods, but the ripples from that seem to be hitting the volunteer artists, wiki maintainers, and third-party-app developers pretty hard.
2. Februar 2023
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