As others said, the logo thing is solvable, for the domain you can explain that it's cheaper than com or net.

Thank you, I appreciate that.

Jeeeze I do not even begin to know how to respond to what you just wrote.

You completely misread the situation. Nowhere did I ever say I came across as a creep, I've never had that in my life.

It's also OP's problem though, clearly.

Then reply to the entire rest of their message where they said they're assuming you being a creep isn't the case..?

I dunno, that was more of a joke to me?

The joke being GIMP is not a work friendly name.

I need to convince others to want to use the tool.

Why? They asked for options, you gave them the best one, they dismissed it. Let them pay through the nose for the big corporate system if that's what they want to do.

Doing bad decisions is part of simple sabotage, comrade.

You have ignored the other suggested project in that comment.

I use to go to my old company's owner with Open Source tools and everytime he saw a website that was like web 1.0/Basic WordPress he was like how I am supposed to trust this. I responded that if the dev was actually trying to trick us it would be some React single page site that looks pretty, this guy just wants to make software.

My point is that you are trying to sell this to the wrong people. They expect the average corporate React site with gradients on cards, like what an Ai would make, because that was what their training data was. Anything that does not fit that will be shutdown.

The Anubus girl is pretty good branding because it is an expressive character and not some hollow corporate design. higher ups hate that, they want the simple bland buttehole designs that the Ai company's use.

Hey that's not a real strawman! That's Old Man Harris!

And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you damn kids

Yes they do solve your issue, just not in the way you wanted.

Sounds like you need to do some growing up, too. Most of the time in the real world, imperfect answers are your only viable answers.

Mods, I'm gonna argue rule 3 here. This is not related to self-hosting rather enterprise level sysadmin services and does not belong.

This is a popular self hosted tool.

I am asking for a alternative open source self hosted tool, and elaborate why I'm asking it.

Oh my bad, I thought it was just another person pointing me to Anubis's post about how to remove the logo.

Thanks I will look at that alternative

Step 2: CNAME it to techaro.lol

Wouldn't that just resolve to IP of techaro, thus providing a "wrong" TLS certificate?

Why the fuck is the AuDHD drive by audience taking potshot in a sentence equating it with creepiness and unwashed-ness?

Did one of us touch you in a bad spot or something else wrong with you?

Well, only if you assume the end goal is to make profit from the various businesses out there.

Either you are a creep or otherwise come off as creepy due to Audhd things

That is one hell of a leap. Maybe don't try to diagnose people on the internet?

The reaction you are describing is not reasonable

No, it is. Anubis being unprofessional is by design. It's run by one person, as a hobby, as of last year. When you aren't reliant on profit in order to run a project you are able to adjust your priorities away from 'money at any cost'.

Yeah, but Xe Xaio also has a full time job that is funding things right now. There's room for priorities other than profit, such as cute furry art. Not everything has to be about money.

All these comments about the URL being unprofessional or whatever, and I am just now realizing what they mean by that. I saw anubis.techaro.lol and didn't get what about that was unprofessional. Professional tools can be named after mythological beings, etc. It wasn't until seeing your comment here that I realized lol may seem unprofessional or something.

I think a lot of people in this thread have missed the point a little. Money isn't everything, and the branding is absolutely doing its job correctly here.

When advertising, you don't just tailor your branding to the customers, but to the customers you want to have.

If you want to have lots of locals visit your restaurant, you post your ad in the local newspaper. This specifically excludes out of towners, and makes sure that everyone that visits is very likely a local, or someone who actually pays attention to local events.

If you want your scam to only reach stupid or mentally incapable people, you make sure to have several typos in your scam email. This filters out most everyone who might catch on halfway through if you had used a better formatted and written scam email.

If you want to exclude people who hate furries, might be transphobic, or otherwise problematic, you add a furry logo to your hobby project and make it very obvious what it is.

Having your branding and advertising filter out the idiots who hate furries is a feature, not a bug.

Getting mad is kinda just what social media does. If you just take a chill pill its a fun problem!

Personally wouldn't be an issue for me: I'd present anubis to my boss, he'd make fun of both the mascot and me, I'd laugh it off and explain how we can get rid the awoo girl.

I'm fine with being known as a weirdo tho, but in a more cutthroat corporate environment that kind of thing weighs you down carrier-wise so I get it.

Did you read my post at all?

I dont have a solution but I get it. My company ended up using slack over discord because of the same issue. Discord is unprofessional, the brand name and gamer logo were a nonstarter and that ended the discussion without looking at the software features.

End result: Anubis loses a paying customer and big client that throws tens of millions each year at software projects.

"It's .lol for free or it's Cloudflare 💰💰"

But yeah, I wouldn't go fighting at all. I'd give 'em the options and let them pay if they want to.

What URL do I send my coworkers/management to where they don't run into that logo?

Anubis is open source under the MIT license. If the branding is an issue, fork it, change the branding, call it good.

People complained when the Tesseract dev did that. Though that response may have been emotionally charged due to what was also happening with Tesseract.

Sounds like you need to explain the difference between a serious tool and a serious looking tool. They can frump about it being weird but it is the foss option.

Idk my last workplace was full of nerds who appreciated the pedigree of anubus' creator. We used it to protect our production sites without even changing the branding. If I were in your place I would find it very hard to resist bringing up the amount of furries in tech.

Yeah buddy, you probably don't want discord for legal reasons. Discord gains perpetual copyright to reuse anything you upload to their servers. Best way is self hosted or a service like slack if you don't want to hassle with servers.

Another team asked for your input, and you gave your input. If they don't want to take your input then what does it matter?

It has been an upsetting thread to read; in frustrated on your behalf OP. I think many commenters here have not worked in the kind of environment you're describing, and "get another job" is deeply unhelpful advice.

It's not cringe :(

"You can change the logo bruh"

Working as intended. Their goal is not a payday.

the unhinged and reality-divorced types who cannot understand something so simple as normal people thinking things are weird. Half the respondents here think you should scream at your coworkers

I've recommended the ploopy knob to coworkers before. I was in government work at the time. My current employer uses and recommends software called "keep ass". This is a user problem first, and a software/branding problem a distant second. The comments here reflect that.

Yes, software developers put out things that are counterculture. Yes, that can make working with them more difficult than it might otherwise be.

No, you should not blame the software developer for this.

If the branding causes too many issues, don't use it. The branding is there because the developer wants it there, and wants to have the type of customers that enjoy it, or can at least look past it. Everybody else being filtered out is a good thing.

That's the neat part. You don't. If they can't get past the branding, that's their problem.

Trying to force the issue makes it into anubis' problem, which is a dick move for free software.

random visitor visits your website and they see a weird anime girl drawing talking about security, what is the chance of them just bouncing away afraid that it is a virus or an unsafe website?

Very high. And they'd be completely wrong in doing so.

Let's not pretend that it's the furries fault that everyone discounts their work because of how they present themselves, especially for things they are giving out for free.

You can get your point across without saying a slur you know

Associating a furry animie character as pedofilia says WAY more about your search history than anything that image is.

2026

mistrusting a firewall because of a changeable anime catgirl when there's technofascist executing and leading technofascism on IT all abroad

Your teammates are stupid (not to mention they are probably projecting their own fetishes, denialists and negationists are like that) and they deserve to be derided. Changing the logo of a program these days is, like, two lines in a script.

being cringe

There is no differentiation around "who" in self-hosting. I would even say it should be encouraged to have companies support open-source tools like Anubis, especially financially.

If you want to start a meta discussion about it go for it, but I won't remove this discussion just because a business is involved. Especially considering many of us self-host for our own personal businesses as well, it would seem pretty arbitrary to me.

If this is for work you probably should bring in a professional. There are enterprise solutions for this.

This is selfhosted after all

I don't know what is happening any more

My client wants to ditch US tech and have a Open-Source division, so they are pro self hosting and open source.

It's government, so they will frown upon that mascot, and won't choose it as a tool.