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Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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I used to work there. People complain that they use deceptive practices, like a low intro rate and then very high cost automatic renewals. About 3-4 years ago they were bought by some private equity firms and they have been in the process of basically rewriting all their products. I was involved in a one year full rewrite which was later scrapped in favor of reselling Office 365 instead.

Interesting. As someone from the industry, which other companies would you recommend?

I regularly see Name.com, Namecheap, and Gandi as answers here.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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I used to work there. People complain that they use deceptive practices, like a low intro rate and then very high cost automatic renewals. About 3-4 years ago they were bought by some private equity firms and they have been in the process of basically rewriting all their products. I was involved in a one year full rewrite which was later scrapped in favor of reselling Office 365 instead.

Interesting. As someone from the industry, which other companies would you recommend?

internet.bs

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Especially because you cannot even read them without JavaScript or signing up.

Does this work for you? https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=forum/tm... It works here with Firefox+noscript, but in w3m it messes up when you read an article and forces you to a "need JS" page. I might have added some other hack somewhere in FFx ages ago to get groups working that I've forgotten about.

Oh, wow. Works for me. Confirmed that Noscript is required or any link you click redirects you back to the "rich" site.

This is awesome. Thank you for sharing. It's ugly, but who cares? Finally I can have more than one google groups window tab open and still have smooth scrolling without the javascript flailing around so hard my fans kick in.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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I see SourceForge as being to code hosting platforms as GoDaddy is to domain registrars. They both started in the late 90s, exploded, and suffered from their success. They became infested with bad management, became bloated and difficult to use, and employed skeezy money-making tactics. GoDaddy doesn't seem to be in trouble the way SourceForge is, though.

As a customer of both GoDaddy and Namecheap, I have to say that GoDaddy offers a much better, more full-featured DNS control panel. Frankly, I can't see staying with Namecheap. I really don't get the hate for GoDaddy. SourceForge, OTOH, are reprehensible.

> I really don't get the hate for GoDaddy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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What are the specific concerns with GoDaddy? I've been using them only as a domain registrar, and, well, they do register my domains.. I didn't know there were issues of the same magnitude as with SourceForge. What registrar do you use?

I used to work there. People complain that they use deceptive practices, like a low intro rate and then very high cost automatic renewals. About 3-4 years ago they were bought by some private equity firms and they have been in the process of basically rewriting all their products. I was involved in a one year full rewrite which was later scrapped in favor of reselling Office 365 instead.

>>> People complain that they use deceptive practices,

The last company I worked for had all of their public domains registered through them. The funny thing they figured out was if they registered for a domain or a service, they would get all the way through the order, then wait a day before processing.

Like clockwork, the next day the sys admins would get a 30% off coupon for the stuff they had just started to sign up for the previous day.

It was an easy way to game the system, and made you wonder how over priced their stuff really was.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Interesting. As someone from the industry, which other companies would you recommend?

https://dnsimple.com/ I'm a happy customer, and I also used to work with the founder, Anthony Eden. He's a great guy, and so is the product.

DNSimple is amazing, and we do our reselling on SimplyBuilt.com through them.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Especially because you cannot even read them without JavaScript or signing up.

Does this work for you? https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=forum/tm... It works here with Firefox+noscript, but in w3m it messes up when you read an article and forces you to a "need JS" page. I might have added some other hack somewhere in FFx ages ago to get groups working that I've forgotten about.

Thats fantastic, thanks!

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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post #156

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I used to work there. People complain that they use deceptive practices, like a low intro rate and then very high cost automatic renewals. About 3-4 years ago they were bought by some private equity firms and they have been in the process of basically rewriting all their products. I was involved in a one year full rewrite which was later scrapped in favor of reselling Office 365 instead.

>>> People complain that they use deceptive practices, The last company I worked for had all of their public domains registered through them. The funny thing they figured out was if they registered for a domain or a service, they would get all the way through the order, then wait a day before processing. Like clockwork, the next day the sys admins would get a 30% off coupon for the stuff they had just started to sign…

GoDaddy doesn't make money on domains. They make money on the auxiliary services like email, hosting, etc.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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>>> People complain that they use deceptive practices, The last company I worked for had all of their public domains registered through them. The funny thing they figured out was if they registered for a domain or a service, they would get all the way through the order, then wait a day before processing. Like clockwork, the next day the sys admins would get a 30% off coupon for the stuff they had just started to sign…

GoDaddy doesn't make money on domains. They make money on the auxiliary services like email, hosting, etc.

Actually, it sounds like GoDaddy simply doesn't make money.

"The company lost $143 million last year. Granted that's less than the $200 million it lost in 2013, and the $279 million lost in 2012 -- but GoDaddy admits it hasn't turned a profit since 2009..."[1]

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/godaddy-ipo-to-value-company-at...

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