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Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by lucideer »

The Opera 12 browser, for umpteen reasons:

- UX-wise, it solved many issues browsers today are still struggling with. Vivaldi is working in a similar direction, but they've basically started from scratch again so aren't close to the point of development Opera had achieved by version 12.

- These HN posts from today's frontpage [0] [1] give some idea of why we really need Presto today. Not only would it just be good to have more competitors in the space, but also, for most of its existence Presto was ahead of its competitors in every detail (except for the one important, and very political, issue of "site compatibility", a.k.a. making badly written websites work). It also, similarly, got many UX points working at an engine level that modern browsers still get wrong, like text selection of html content and link text, responsiveness of scroll and of page links during navigation, etc.

- M2 will never be surpassed by Thunderbird, and quite possibly will never be surpassed full stop (though I really hope I'm wrong about that).

... so many other things

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18626316

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18622516

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Post by lightedman »

ilmiont wrote: post #122

Windows Phone. To this day no Android phone I've used ever as fast, reliable or plain refined as WP8 was. Unique design and many genuinely useful features, and it reflected a time when smartphones could have been vibrant and diverse, not our current two mega-platforms or nothing.

I could never get any Windows Phone to see my WiFi access points. Tossed both of them the second that happened.

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Post by modeless »

sheepybloke wrote: post #176

Is no one going to mention Pebble? It's the only smartwatch I've ever wanted, and I was so sad that it got bought and died right when I had enough money to spend some on a smart watch. It just had the perfect combo of good design, long battery life, and usability.

Over two years after Pebble shut down I am still wearing my Pebble Time Round every day and it works just as well as the day I got it. There's really good community support with Rebble.

You can still find Pebbles for sale in various places and I'd recommend getting one over any of the Android Wear watches. They're just that much better.

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Post by slartibardfast0 »

noahdesu wrote: post #184
y4mi wrote: post #20

YNAB4 (you need a budget 4) It wouldve been perfect if they'd just added an API so that users can create and share ways to get the data from various banks. And a refactor was necessary to a native library (or even electron) But this cloud native follow-up version is just not an option.

Been using the cloud native version for about a year now, and I'm debating if I should renew. What are you using now if not YNAB?

Not original commenter, but I reluctantly switched to the cloud version and have found the improved credit card logic to be more than worthy of the increased price.

I'm hoping they can add support for the EU's second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) open banking APIs when they open up to third parities sometime in 2019 too!

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Post by AsyncAwait »

bhauer wrote: post #156

* Windows Phone. We need a third viable option in the mobile space. This week we are concerned about the loss of a browser engine, recognizing this is unhealthy for the market. Windows Phone was terrific in many ways and recent concepts by fans such as @boxnwhisker (Harry Dohyun Kim) [1] show how beautiful the Metro design could be today. * Microsoft Image Composer. A little known sprite-oriented graphic arts program…

I really hope Purism's Librem5 pans out for this very reason. A third alternative. I don't want Windows Phone, since that would not buy me much more privacy than Android with today's Microsoft, so having an open 3rd party mobile platform would be the solution here, I think.

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Post by ixwt »

gegtik wrote: post #196
sheepybloke wrote: post #176

Is no one going to mention Pebble? It's the only smartwatch I've ever wanted, and I was so sad that it got bought and died right when I had enough money to spend some on a smart watch. It just had the perfect combo of good design, long battery life, and usability.

although its no pebble, the amazfit bip is the closest contender available today

Holy crap, I've been looking for something to replace my pebble... This product can't be real... 30 day battery life?!
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