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Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
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#132I really wish RethinkDB the company with all founders and engineers would have survived. Their documentation, polish, and web admin interface was heads and shoulders above.
The concept of changefeeds at the database level was super powerful. ReQL was nice to work with and using a ORM such as thinky[1] was a pleasure.
If only (I know it's not easy) they could have inked some enterprise deals and focused on the business and generating revenue.
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#133Canv.as by m00t from 4chan, it was really fun remixing stuff and a lot of it was very wholesome and light hearted.
MP3.com, as there was a lot of strange unsigned music on there. I lost my archive when CD backups failed, such a shame. I had so much good stuff.
Geocities, but I think I miss more the web as it was before it got mainstream, back when it was weird and you had to hack up some HTML to make a 'personal website', and kids would put comments in saying I WORKED REALLY HARD ON THIS PLZ DO NOT COPY :)
Though there's a lot of great stuff now, Youtube is amazing.
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#134Google Reader. Now I have a mix of HN, Reddit and GMail, and none of them work really how I like.
Google Reader without a doubt. In my opinion, the demise of RSS started the day Google Reader was killed.
> demise of RSS started the day Google Reader was killed
Maybe killing Reader was a means to an ends.
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#135Altavista. I miss it every single day. Searching for technical (unix, programming, etc.) content is so much easier when you can use nested parens and proper boolean language. This is in contrast to google where searches return things that don't even contain your keywords. This is in contrast to google where the modifiers like allinsite: and '+' and "quotes" are not respected or change their behavior over time. Man I…
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#136I miss the social features of the original del.icio.us. Pinboard is okay, but it's much harder to find other people to follow.
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#137The original Motorola RAZR flip phone. And in general, phones with actual buttons you can feel.
I had one of those, they were very satisfying. I've been considering trying out a Blackberry that has Android at some point...
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#138Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#139Altavista. I miss it every single day. Searching for technical (unix, programming, etc.) content is so much easier when you can use nested parens and proper boolean language. This is in contrast to google where searches return things that don't even contain your keywords. This is in contrast to google where the modifiers like allinsite: and '+' and "quotes" are not respected or change their behavior over time. Man I…
I also do not recall Altavista ever banning me with a CAPTCHA for "searching too hard".
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#140Rdio. No other streaming service has come close to the UX perfection of Rdio.