If you enter a bookshop and you ask for a book that does not exist then it's definitely your mistake.
If you ask for a book they don't have it's a different matter.
In any case, when you ask for a book in a library you are using their "search" endpoint. The equivalent to opening a books/1 url would be asking for a specific instance of a book by serial number or so. Then it's clear that you made a mistake uf you do that for an unexistent serial number...
You have to ask to the appropriate forum though, and that's what he got completely wrong. Getting npm to scream for help when a developer installs your package is equivalent to asking your peer for a raise.
I'd say that over 99.999% of the people who saw that message, created memes about it, etc.. did not have a corporate credit card and the power to use it at their discretion. If you want money from corps, THOSE are the guys you need to find and ask money from.
> Has it accidentally become a halfway useful site?
It has. It is nowhere near the quality of MDN, but also nowhere nearly as bad as it used to be.
W3Schools has less information than MDN. This is bad for the experienced, but a relief for people who are entering the trade.
As an example, consider an inexperienced web developer that wants to do something when a button is clicked. They google for it and find these two pages:
- https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_onclick.asp . Right there in the middle of the page is an example snippet that will get the job done. If I scroll down I see other ways to do it, all of them fully contained (i.e.: I can copy-paste it to some website and they will work).
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/cli... . There's a table of things I don't understand (Bubbles? Cancellable?), two lengthy discussions about weird edge cases in some browsers, and (finally!) a single not-so-simple example that is not even enclosed in <script> tags.
The new pricing model where I got banned from using Opus entirely and half a day of work (with weaker models) consumed the 10$ plan was.
I'm now using a Claude Max subscription and I can get close to the daily limits but I'm fairly happy with the overall plan consumption.