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About 50% of their sponsors are gambling websites. So sad.


I hate gambling ads and casinos.

But I reckon in this case, if I had to guess, I think maybe it's an external or internal developer that's making lots of Casino websites. Maybe they work for a group that owns all those brands?

Surely it can't be individual casinos, where Bullma is big in the Casino website development space and has grown in that sector by word of mouth!? LOL


I've seen other open source projects with tons of gambling sponsors, it's not just Bulma. My guess is that it's a relatively cheap way to get links for SEO.


It’s rather common for mid-sized OSS projects to have a lot of gambling sponsors for the links. Cheaper than ads.


Do they sponsor just for the SEO (getting your website mentioned on a frequently-visited website) or is there more to it?


Usually it’s because the company uses the software in question and wants to ensure it sticks around.

In this instance it feels a little weird. No good reason why a CSS framework would be particularly suited for gambling site operations, you may be right that it’s an SEO play.


the answer is performance

css is the most performant way to create interactive experiences

if gaming (gambling in this genre) sponsored react, their customers would use a more performant poker app. react can barely handle being reddit.


Highly unlikely. HTTP latency is going to matter 1000x more than React. If anything you'd expect to see them sponsoring WebSocket libraries or something.


i’m talking layout, paint, composite

you’re talking network

javascript, which i write every day and love, fundamentally can do what i’m talking about through shaders in webgl or webgpu but people generally reach for react, which is the performance bottleneck in the rendering loop i’m describing because javascript is fundamentally inefficient at graphics and why the technologies i’m referencing were implemented with javascript bindings in the first place.

i agree the network is important, but it is generally the last bit in a call stack for any given user interaction.


> i’m talking layout, paint, composite

> you’re talking network

I'm talking overall page performance. A gambling site using React vs not is going to have an absolutely tiny impact compared to network latency. They're sponsoring this framework as an SEO play.


Most common are that multiple gambling sites are own by one company. So if the company sponsors, you can put multiple brands on (and for SEO purposes).


No. There's sadder.

Some of those are sellers of fake likes/follows on social media.


Don't discount Bulma because of this though. It's quite a joy to use.


because it has follow links im there. It's a SEO spam.


Why is it sad?


Hard to see how casinos are much more exploitative than Silicon Valley social media companies. And they sponsor lots of tech.




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