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Re: Orion Browser

#11

Post by roughly »

I really like Kagi, but I'm starting to get that same sense of anticipatory melancholy I used to get when I found a really good drug dealer back in the day - this product or service is fantastic, and I'm very happy to be able to give it money, but I recognize this is a short term affair and some day I'll be back to having to search for it again.

I would continue to pay Kagi $10 a month forever for exactly the product I signed up for - I have zero additional product wants or needs, zero additional ambitions for the service, zero things I'd like my money to be going to other than sustaining a high-quality service that solves a need for me. I don't need or want the AI features, I sure don't need a browser, and I'd really like all of this manic product energy to be going towards the core product so I can continue to enjoy it for the foreseeable future.

Re: Orion Browser

#12

Post by gtirloni »

catlikesshrimp wrote: post #7

Why is going open source more difficult than not? isn't it enough to make sure all the code is legal and dump it as is? The community might even help cleaning it. Documentation might or could come at some point in the future.

Once it's fully open source, there are certain expectations and a lot of overhead involved in maintaining the community, governance, etc. I can understand if they delay it while they are still figuring out the initial vision and want to stay focused. There are many examples of open source maintainers burning out due to that overhead, and it seems Kagi might be stretched too thin right now.

Re: Orion Browser

#15

Post by gtirloni »

roughly wrote: post #11

I really like Kagi, but I'm starting to get that same sense of anticipatory melancholy I used to get when I found a really good drug dealer back in the day - this product or service is fantastic, and I'm very happy to be able to give it money, but I recognize this is a short term affair and some day I'll be back to having to search for it again. I would continue to pay Kagi $10 a month forever for exactly the product…

Kagi offers Orion+ for those who want to support the browser development specifically.

Re: Orion Browser

#16

Post by orbsa »

I've been a Kagi subscriber for over a year now because I love the product and think they do a great job working on it and improving it. That being said, I've tried using Orion on my Macbook Pro and it always seems to get full of memory leaks. Freezing at times and making it troublesome to use the developer tools. I prefer Zen browser currently and don't see myself switching until Ladybird is stable

Re: Orion Browser

#17

Post by PcChip »

roughly wrote: post #11

I really like Kagi, but I'm starting to get that same sense of anticipatory melancholy I used to get when I found a really good drug dealer back in the day - this product or service is fantastic, and I'm very happy to be able to give it money, but I recognize this is a short term affair and some day I'll be back to having to search for it again. I would continue to pay Kagi $10 a month forever for exactly the product…

100% agree with every word you said

Re: Orion Browser

#18

Post by drcongo »

I'm an Orion+ paid user though I still don't use it for my daily driver. there's still a long way to go, especially around password manager integrations - iCloud passwords is pretty much unusable and 1Password is extremely flaky (though 1Password is a thoroughbred shitshow these days so probably not Kagi's fault). I pay for it because I hope it succeeds and because I love Kagi search.

Posted from Orion RC.

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