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Encouraging update on the status page: "The issue is related to heating/cooling complications in the data center due to a power outage . The power outage has been fixed and we are …

More assurance that it's not just us: https://downdetector.com/status/linode/ "Mal de muchos, consuela de tontos."

Some signs of life from some of our servers now. Still no word from Linode.

Is this hard downtime for anyone else? We're not sure what they mean by "emerging service issue" and they haven't replied to our support ticket yet.

My counterargument: https://agifriday.substack.com/p/jevons Short version: Jevons's paradox means that the more coding you automate away for developers (like with compilers in the …

That's our (Beeminder's) esteemed, if now somewhat moribund, competitor, StickK. See https://blog.beeminder.com/anticharity for our argument against anti-charities like that.

Hi! Beeminder cofounder here. We do have a charity option but only in our most expensive premium plan. My own feeling is that a commitment contract with a charity as a beneficiary …

Congrats on the launch! I think this is powerful and handles the use cases you've listed better than Beeminder can currently. So that's exciting for us -- we love worthy competitor…

Beeminder cofounder here! Thanks for the plug! So much to say here but maybe I'll start with a pointer to our philosophy on anti-charities: https://blog.beeminder.com/anticharity/ …

Ah, this continues to be good feedback. Thanks for continuing to hash it out with me! I see I made it sound like there were a lot of moving parts in my argument for why our incenti…

Hi! Beeminder cofounder here! I'm pretty excited to see all the positive comments but of course I've homed in on this negative one first. I think Beeminder is incentivized to make …

Thanks for the plug! See also https://blog.beeminder.com/competitors

Scott Aaronson adds the following in the comment on his blog post in response to a question about this: > the NDA is about OpenAI’s intellectual property, e.g. aspects of their mod…

> In my opinion these automated solutions seldom work in the long run Beeminder cofounder here. Can I hear more about why you think this? There are definitely people for whom Beemi…

Oh! Beeminder's not actually affiliated with TaskRatchet. We're just friends with the creator of it and have promoted it a lot and have an autodata integration with it, etc. See ht…

I'm not sure if it ends up too in-the-weeds but we had a fun debate with one of our Beeminder-but-on-the-blockchain competitors recently: https://forum.beeminder.com/t/decentraliza…

Here's our counterargument, or at least why Beeminder prefers punishment: https://blog.beeminder.com/contrapositive/ Relevant bit: This sounds good but we’re not into it. I mean, f…

Happy to answer such questions! By disputes I believe @hackandtrip means customers disputing charges with their credit card company. Aka chargebacks. Beeminder gets zero credit car…

Definitely don't be discouraged by the existence of StickK! They technically already have the referee feature (that being your key distinction from Beeminder, which has a much less…

Good point! I mean, I don't know if I'd say that makes lifetime plans themselves a dark pattern. It's demonstrating a lot of faith in the company to buy one. Hopefully Beeminder is…

We don't feel awkward about it! We're leaning into it hard. See https://blog.beeminder.com/focus and https://blog.beeminder.com/defail But it's definitely not for everyone! If your…

Good questions; I don't have good answers! Various people have taken a stab at it, suffered 90%-done syndrome, and, yeah. As for myself, I have 70 ttc pings (52.5 hours of work) pr…

To clarify, by "subsume the janky Perl version" I did not mean touching any Perl code!

Nice work! I have no idea if this could fit into your roadmap (and this is probably the kind of feature request you should absolutely say no to) but my partner and I made a thing c…

Thanks for this recommendation! If it has a commitment device aspect to it, I'll add it to our list of competitors at http://blog.beeminder.com/competitors