The consequences of forcing users to log in before they can access content: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/login-walls/
It makes sense for very personalised services like email, but I wonder how much stores could increase their sales by offering 'checkout as guest'.
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I'm delighted that so many people are getting value in difftastic, but there has been a significant increase in new issues recently! Hopefully this is a temporary bump from HN.
It's a genuine risk from creating a generic tool: if 1% of devs use it, that's a huge userbase.
Reading about Oberon on RISC-V, and I'm surprised to learn that adding a USB stack would probably be a major increase in total lines of code! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25501944
Plotting TODOs over time for different OSS projects is a really interesting way to look at project development: https://schleiss.io/plotting-source-code-todos-for-open-source-projects
There's often a bump before a major release. Most projects increase over time (perhaps it's proportional to LOC?).
