> Are developers supposed to pay to develop? ridiculous
No. Developers are supposed to pay to access the hard work of the technical writers and developers who maintain MDN. I don't understand why you think it's self-evident that this work should be free.
The W3C has many wealthy companies as participants, they should support it more too given that each and everyone benefits from MDN being the central place for all browser API reference.
I lead of Chrome DevRel team and we contribute with tech writer support and work on the PAB, it appears too little still but there are many web standards aligned companies that could provide more support because they directly benefit from MDNs existence.
Exactly... I think that each browser should be responsible for offering its own documentation on its web APIs (after all, documentation is what allows developers to develop on your platform)... This is not the case, And although some browsers offer technical help (like your team), I think that all browsers should offer both technical and monetary help to MDN, or else, each browser finances its own documentation repository.
No. Developers are supposed to pay to access the hard work of the technical writers and developers who maintain MDN. I don't understand why you think it's self-evident that this work should be free.
Here is a longer explanation by the person who created the precursor to MDN: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2020/08/i_love_mdn_...
Here is the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24159244