Thank you. Just bought it as it looks one and partially because my initials were available. Kind of a sign :D. Otherwise it will be one of many domains I’ll have to manage for a year ;)
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I skimmed OPs post, and then read yours, and I'm still a bit confused as to how it's different than just hosting a mishmash of different but related services yourself. If you could not, yes that's fine. But if you could, what really are the advantages?
I argue with computers for my day job, I don’t want to do that after work hours too. I’m happy to pay somebody else (especially Adam who is just so active with the community) a fairly paltry sum to do it for me.
To be entirely fair (in my situation), what I do at work and what I find fun to do with computers are two different things :P
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#43Sorry, why would I pay 20/year bucks for this when I have my own website/infra?
I happily pay $20/year so I don't need to worry about it. Not everyone can or wants to run their own infra.
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#44Sorry, why would I pay 20/year bucks for this when I have my own website/infra?
So that you don't have to worry about outages, updates, bugfixes, certs, permissions, vulnerabilities, ... like you do on your own website/infra?
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well assuming for the sake of discussion that this isn’t a paid advertisement, it’s still clearly a glowing endorsement of the service, no? Is a glowing endorsement not allowed?
Is an endorsement just running the homepage through ChatGPT and wording everything slightly differently?
It's odd how, "I don't like the writing" somehow seems to mean that people are totally fine assuming ChatGPT wrote something. Feels like a dismissal almost as low effort as the point you're trying to make.
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#46> I don’t know why; probably a curious desire to see how bad Elon Musk would screw it up
It’s been interesting to watch people go from nerd-crushing on Elon (omg rockets! omg electric vehicles yay climate!) to loathing him in the blink of an eye. Goes to show what’s really important to some people…
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#47I've been using Omg.lol for around a year now (Cian.lol) and am really enjoying it. It's just so simple - it feels like travelling back in time to when we wrote blog posts and made websites to share with our friends, not to Create Content.
That internet is not dead, you know? It’s just the the other part grew so massively.
There are still people writing blog posts and websites that don’t require you to dismiss 5 popups before you can interact with it. It can be done.
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#48“omg.lol is unabashedly built with PHP” PHP is on my mental list of forever-security-challenged tech, but it got on that list a long time ago. It’s 2023, is that still a reasonable concern?
It was wrongly added to that list I the first place.
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#49“omg.lol is unabashedly built with PHP”
I already like you
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#50Seems a bit like Github pages but with more of a social angle to it. I kinda expected Github to go in this direction eventually - but keeping social elements out of Github might have been a smart move