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Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by dspillett »

kzrdude wrote: post #120
OskarS wrote: post #21

It's a little beside the point of the post, but I just want to fly a flag for Nebula: I subscribed solely to get early versions of Jet Lag: The Game, but I'm finding myself watching it more and more! It has many of the channels I would go to YouTube for, but I've also discovered several really good ones that I had never heard of. And it has a similar feel to Kagi, in the sense of "freeing" yourself from the algorithm…

I guess Nebula is better for video watching, but without recommendations and video comments, it feels dead. I did pay for it for a year and then gave up. Is the problem me?

Yes, but no.

Different tools work better for different people, if you want/need yt features that aren't found in the alternative then it is the right choice for you.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by suprjami »

lirolero wrote: post #89
bearjaws wrote: post #46

Swear whenever your company decides to invent its own font its like a version of "The Headquarters Curse". You had nothing else better to spend your teams time on so might as well make a new font that 10% of your customers will notice if you are lucky. They could have just picked any other font and used it. It's a video streaming website, how much text content is there vs video content? Headquarter Curse: A theory su…

from https://nebula.tv/nebulasans : > When Nebula found itself facing exorbitant fees to license the font it relied on for all of its branding, the company decided to find a new font that would work just as well.

This is even more baffling because Source Sans is open under SIL which permits free commercial use without restriction.

So if the goal was to save money, wouldn't the smart move be to use Source Sans for $0, instead of paying the designer of Source Sans to make some very minor tweaks to end up with another SIL font?

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by tmtvl »

OskarS wrote: post #21

It's a little beside the point of the post, but I just want to fly a flag for Nebula: I subscribed solely to get early versions of Jet Lag: The Game, but I'm finding myself watching it more and more! It has many of the channels I would go to YouTube for, but I've also discovered several really good ones that I had never heard of. And it has a similar feel to Kagi, in the sense of "freeing" yourself from the algorithm…

I bought a lifetime subscription originally for Legal Eagle videos (both for the Nebula-exclusive videos and the Nebula-exclusive extras at the end of the videos), but I've also enjoyed Not Just Bikes and Tom Scott's England series.

Re: Nebula Sans

#125

Post by y1n0 »

I must be the only person in the world that thinks so many of these fonts are casually indistinguishable.

I feel like I’m reading reviews of wines. This font has chocolatey overtones that bring the reader to a meditative state of hyperflow.

Re: Nebula Sans

#126

Post by eichin »

varispeed wrote: post #4

I wonder when we reach the state of having a perfect font.

I've just been collecting monospace fonts, and have a bit of elisp to cycle through the collection when I'm bored with the current one. (Sometimes that's enough to conclude that no, really, the original was fine and I go back to it :-)

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by dcow »

OskarS wrote: post #21

It's a little beside the point of the post, but I just want to fly a flag for Nebula: I subscribed solely to get early versions of Jet Lag: The Game, but I'm finding myself watching it more and more! It has many of the channels I would go to YouTube for, but I've also discovered several really good ones that I had never heard of. And it has a similar feel to Kagi, in the sense of "freeing" yourself from the algorithm…

Unfortunately for me it went the other way. I was an early Nebula subscriber but in my experience the content got super stale and I found myself struggling to find anything interesting to watch after a few months. After a few years of using it maybe once a quarter, I pulled the plug. I hope it's temporary and I am an avid Kagi user so I am 100% willing to pay for add free content. I wish Nebula had a pay-per-view option so I could pay for the content I use.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by magarnicle »

kzrdude wrote: post #120
OskarS wrote: post #21

It's a little beside the point of the post, but I just want to fly a flag for Nebula: I subscribed solely to get early versions of Jet Lag: The Game, but I'm finding myself watching it more and more! It has many of the channels I would go to YouTube for, but I've also discovered several really good ones that I had never heard of. And it has a similar feel to Kagi, in the sense of "freeing" yourself from the algorithm…

I guess Nebula is better for video watching, but without recommendations and video comments, it feels dead. I did pay for it for a year and then gave up. Is the problem me?

I log on once a day and can see everything that was uploaded in less than two minutes. No need for recommendations. Considering how cheap it is I'm happy if I only find one or two videos a week worth watching.

Re: Nebula Sans

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Post by Humphrey »

pbronez wrote: post #88
WarmWash wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that ad-blocking makes youtube the best value proposition for users. You get almost all the content of nebula, plus tons more, for free, no ads. Don't get me wrong, Nebula is great (although yt actually has a better profit share believe it or not), but the internet needs to look in the mirror before services like it can actually compete with yt.

This surprised me, so I looked it up. Basically YouTube pays ~55% and Nebula pays 50%. This is complicated by Nebula's "creator owned" situation. Which is complicated [0]. It's something like: - Nebula's assets live in Watch Nebula LLC - Watch Nebula LLC is owned by 83% Standard Broadcast and 16% Curiosity Stream (CURI) - Standard Broadcast "is owned by 44 total people, all of whom are creators" So it's fair to say t…

Of cause, I assume it's difficult to compare 50% of paid subscriptions to 55% of ad revenue. I have heard that YouTubers earn per view from premium subscribers than from ad supported views.
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