Habitica: a role-playing game for self improvement

Posted Mar 4, 2018 1:59 UTC (Sun) by sampablokuper (guest, #53150)
In reply to: Habitica: a role-playing game for self improvement by gerdesj
Parent article: Habitica: a role-playing game for self improvement

> I read this article as an exploratory piece about something I might be interested in. I think we call that journalism. I don't expect that every article is "my thing" but I do expect decent journalism and I get that here.

LWN is great. Glad to have it. Not complaining about LWN in general.

This was a pretty thorough write-up of *some* aspects of an entity that is, in part, a free software codebase. But the write-up was *much* less thorough in relation to some issues that are of core concern to a number of LWN readers. These issues include licensing; privacy; and the merits or disadvantages of SaaSS, especially in relation to such personal and private data as a habit tracker is likely to store.

Factor in that Habitica is a for-profit effort, and I think it becomes clear why what in more conventional computer-orientated publications would have seemed like a perfectly ordinary article, looks in this (LWN's) context rather out of place and indeed feels uncomfortably close to being undeclared advertising.