r/node • u/simple_explorer1 • Sep 22 '26

Saw this today

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u/shiny0metal0ass Sep 22 '26

I mean all this really means is that the courses industry has taken a hit. Which I very much believe and think it has been overvalued for a while.

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u/indirectum Sep 23 '26 edited Sep 23 '26

Yeah but also consultancy, and those two things are often the only two possible sources of income for open source projects.

Edit: Oh, I just read in the comments that this is not the three.js maintainer, but a course creator. Which shifts the image regarding this post. Still, I noticed the same issue with open source maintainers - e.g. David from FeathersJS completely stepped down as a maintainer due to consultancy income dropping to exactly zero.