They’ve been working on collecting data for a long time. They have a lot of established methods and data that a newcomer would have to do the work to replicate.
I’m not aware of anything they do being open source, so you couldn’t just fork it. You’d have to start from scratch.
That’s kinda what I was trying to point to. Yes it is a lot of work to replicate the functionality, but apparently Valve has no intention of “plugging the hole” this data is coming from, and I’m not sure NexusMods would have any ability to torpedo any potential alternatives as they also depend on a third party. So if/when the original enshitifies it would be possible to move on to a new platform.
What’s special about SteamDB that no real, fully fledged alternatives showed up yet? What would prevent someone from “forking” it?
They’ve been working on collecting data for a long time. They have a lot of established methods and data that a newcomer would have to do the work to replicate.
I’m not aware of anything they do being open source, so you couldn’t just fork it. You’d have to start from scratch.
That’s kinda what I was trying to point to. Yes it is a lot of work to replicate the functionality, but apparently Valve has no intention of “plugging the hole” this data is coming from, and I’m not sure NexusMods would have any ability to torpedo any potential alternatives as they also depend on a third party. So if/when the original enshitifies it would be possible to move on to a new platform.
literally nothing