[spiral90210]

SpaceGremlin (mac alternative to WinDirStat) has a similar thing, where some features only work in the independent "SpaceGremlinPro" version downloaded from their site. However, they do some cool stuff with licensing - you can point it to the app store paid/installed version, and it detects the license and unlocks.

If you're worried about people not trusting payment to you, might be worth seeing if you could implement this, so anyone who bought on the app store can still access the full feature set. Cuts you out 30% like, but better than nothing maybe.

[jchw]

There is something amusing about the fact that WinDirStat, as far as I know, was based on KDirStat (now QDirStat), yet this doesn't even get mentioned on their Wikipedia page, and by and large a lot of people don't even know QDirStat exists. One time someone even asked me if they knew of a good alternative for Linux; good news!

[squigz]

It is actually mentioned on the Wikipedia page [1] - and of course, you could add it yourself if that's not enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDirStat#Version_history[10]

[jchw]

Okay, I stand corrected, but I also stand by that it is interesting that it is pointed out that "The project was inspired by SequoiaView" in the lead section, but not that it was a direct port of KDirStat. It feels odd but also intentional, so I never bothered to change it. I'll leave it up to if anyone else feels similarly enough to do so, because then at least that means there are two of us.

[analog8374]

Everything I ever added to Wikipedia was removed, within the day, by a very diligent and hard-working Wikipedia person.

[realitylabs]

Same. My experience with the “concept” of Wikipedia was very high until I had the “direct experience” of Wikipedia, and I realized that the encyclopedia of the commons may not have planned for me to be in the commons.

[LorenPechtel]

I'm sort of in the middle on this.

Some pages have somebody guarding the party line, anything that goes against that gets reverted. (How can putting an accurate link behind a piece of text be wrong??)

Pages without such guardians I've never had an issue.

[squigz]

Everything I've ever added was kept.

[jchw]

Not absolutely everything I've ever contributed was kept, but definitely a lot of it. I genuinely get the feeling that the modern Wikipedia hatred comes from somewhere other than a few unfortunate edit wars, but I'm not in-tune enough to know.

[dd8601fn]

I’ve seen the nit-pick reversions and I’ve seen clear ones.

But when I hear people really complain somewhere I do tend to assume they were trying to smuggle in some specific messaging and got caught.

[chris_wot]

Good for you I guess.

Everything I ever added was kept, and I was permanently banned. I created [ciation needed], started the admins noticeboard, reworked the USA Patriot Act article, wrote numerous articles for WiR with extensive referencing, contributed to peer review and good article reviews, and a shitload more, but nope. Not good enough.

Why anyone would contribute to that cesspool is anyone’s guess.

[squigz]

This comment is a little light on the reasoning for why you were permabanned.

[HoldOnAMinute]

Same. Even a single sentence with an easily verifiable fact. Reverted in seconds.

[Sophira]

To my knowledge, SequoiaView[0] predates even KDirStat - it just didn't have the tree view paired with it.

[0] https://sequoiaview.win.tue.nl/

[jchw]

No doubt KDirStat was based on SequoiaView, but WinDirStat was based directly on KDirStat, as in it was a port of it to Windows. I don't think it is incorrect to mention SequoiaView as the original, but it nonetheless feels weird to skip a hop too. It got not just the tree view but even the name from KDirStat.

[burnte]

SpaceSniffer is an even better version of WinDirStat but I rarely see people talk about it, too.

[LoganDark]

Space Gremlin isn't even available on the App Store anymore, presumably because it hasn't been updated to newer versions of macOS. Meanwhile, GrandPerspective is free and uses the exact same visualization as WinDirStat (although the UX is a bit weird for me)

[esperent]

Sounds like something that would instantly get you banned from the app store if it got noticed.

[lapcat]

No, it isn't. A number of developers have done this.

[ryandrake]

Good thing Apple is well-known for consistently and fairly applying its own App Store rules across multiple, similar apps...

[lapcat]

You're missing the point. We know that countless developers, including the author of the blog post, have received App Store rejections of submissions. On the other hand, to my knowledge, exactly zero developers have ever been banned from the App Store for doing what the commenter claimed would instantly get you banned.

[BrtByte]

Interesting idea. It would basically turn the App Store version into both a discoverability channel and a license anchor for the direct version

[thisislife2]

Offer a "trial" version on App Store, and ask them to download the "pro" version and buy the license directly from you. (Offer a "30%" discount and point out that's the "Apple Tax" savings they get for not paying through the App Store).

[saghm]

> If you're worried about people not trusting payment to you, might be worth seeing if you could implement this, so anyone who bought on the app store can still access the full feature set. Cuts you out 30% like, but better than nothing maybe.

In other words, Apple is abusing their position by defining overly broad permissions so that they can deny them and pressure people to fork over more cash to them.

[SV_BubbleTime]

Isn’t it like 15% up to the first or second million in sales?