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I mean, just don't use it?
Mm yes the old "criticism isn't valid unless it's positive" approach.
"TLDs", not "extensions". I wince when I see the latter, similar (but not the same) as when people say "backslash" when referring to ordinary solidus. The great domainsfortherestofus.com used to exist, but seems to have gone offline in the last couple of months.
> solidus Ooooh, very nice. A welcome addition to my anti-personnel vocabularly. Let me put it right next to the tittle and somewhat more pedestrian compartmentalization .
People who refer to domain "extensions" share something in common with people who misapply the term "backslash". Nerdy enough to have heard of (file name) "extensions" and "backslashes", not nerdy enough to care whether the term is actually appropriate for what they're trying to refer to in the present. TLDs are not "extensions".
The occasional domain registrar that refers to them this way in marketing copy make me wince the hardest. They don't have the excuse of co-opting technically incorrect but extremely popular misnomers. It's more like, if anything, they're most likely to be the cause of people using the wrong term, if ever it were to become a trend.
To the people complaining about this being an app instead of a tool in a browser: This is a Show HN and someone made something for free and shared it. Maybe they just wanted to play around with Electron, they don't owe you anything.
I don't see it's as complaining. OP's project is literally the reverse of taking a traditional desktop software, e.g. a graphic editor, and making it into a web app. Here, it's something that naturally belongs to a web site, but instead packed up into an installable desktop app. I'd be really curious to see the rationale behind this.
It's much easier to install spyware via an actual desktop app than via a web app.
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Mm yes the old "criticism isn't valid unless it's positive" approach.
No, you're simply not the target market, which is the reason why your criticism is discounted. The target market appears to be people who want an app that will still work if OP decides at some point he no longer wants to build/operate the service. They can still fire up the electron app. It's a valid choice that you needn't agree with.
The whole concept of "discounting criticism" based on... what, exactly? is preposterous.
I like the idea, and would use the service, as the domain is short and memorable. But, this is a low hanging fruit for HN critics, the argument of: "is an app so I dont have to worry about a website being down" is pretty poor, you can host your website assets on Netlify/aws amplify/firebase/.... many more.... , with close to 99.99 % availability. And also provide an electron app for those who prefer to use an app. I…
Have you use impossibly, domainsfortherestofus, or namemesh? They're great tools, but all went offline for sometime now. And that's why I build a desktop app
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Have you use impossibly, domainsfortherestofus, or namemesh? They're great tools, but all went offline for sometime now. And that's why I build a desktop app
Yeah, the server hosting their assets went down (probably), the same problem you could (I hope not) face serving requests from your client, right?
To the people complaining about this being an app instead of a tool in a browser: This is a Show HN and someone made something for free and shared it. Maybe they just wanted to play around with Electron, they don't owe you anything.
Hate to dogpile on this but why the app? Not trying to hate on you, genuinely curious why you chose this route. Sometimes using the tools you are most comfortable with at the time is the path to the highest short term productivity.
If you mean why I choose ElectronJS: I wanted it be cross-platform, and ElectronJS was the easiest (partly because I already built and been using the main feature). If you mean why a desktop app: I've been using some web-based tools. Somehow, they don't last (ie. namemesh, or domainsfortherestofus that @pwdisswordfish8 mention went offline for sometimes). Then I thought having a desktop app would be great. For long t…
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This still 100% relies on their servers being up, which is no different than a website. So you absolutely still have to worry about their servers being down, which makes it pointless.
The whois servers down? It doesn't make sense
You concern as stated does not apply.
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How would you meaningfully use this tool in offline mode?
Not using it offline, definitely need the internet. What I meant was, you don't have to worry if the tool you're using suddenly disappears.