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#122This is a great idea and I absolutely love it. The only thing I don't like is the branding. It seems to have some political undertones to it. I think combining this with a product like crypt pad is a great start towards creating a more independent Google workspace competitor. (and I'm flagged lol, way to prove my point)
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is this different from putting a blog on Blogger, or Substack?
It isn't. So why pay $20/year for it?
For the same reason people have been paying for services like this for over 2 decades? This is such a strange thread. If you don't want an omg.lol site, don't buy one! I'm not!
This might be a super interesting case study, because if I had to bet, it's that 80%+ of the hate on this thread comes from the DNS feature omg.lol added --- a feature not common among other content hosting services, and that probably doesn't need to be there at all for omg.lol's market. They made a feature for nerds, not realizing that you have to be super careful about nerds or they'll bite your head off for trying to appeal to them the wrong way. Third-level domains! The gall!
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#124I would kill to know how many people converted despite these comments.
I suspect much like reddit the ratio of link lurkers to commenters on HN is about 19:1 like reddit.
I think that’s way too high (for commenter count).
Lurkers are 90%, 10% have accounts, and 10% of those with accounts comment. This was the breakdown of some major subreddits maybe 6 years ago.
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#125gives me the tripod/myspace feels (in a good way) :)
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for reminding me that SDF still exists. I just logged into my account there for the first time since 2005, and it still works.
Wow, and I was embarrassed to log in again after ~3Y. Awesome that it still works. I have been meaning to check in again, so this thread is a great reminder.
I still use SDF all the time, and it is amazing. Great for when you need to test "does this work not from my network."
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#127This is a great idea and I absolutely love it. The only thing I don't like is the branding. It seems to have some political undertones to it. I think combining this with a product like crypt pad is a great start towards creating a more independent Google workspace competitor. (and I'm flagged lol, way to prove my point)
Where do you pick up political undertones? I'm genuinely curious. I read the whole landing page and it is all lighthearted and friendly, and I pick up on nothing that makes me think otherwise.
The example profile includes pronouns.
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#128If this was positioned as "20usd/year mastodon account on our cool instance and - BTW - you get free webpage and email forwarding" would get much closer to the audience. I sense the point of this funny domain is the community, and community is centered on mastodon instance which btw, is not cheap to run as soon as it grows beyond a few hundred people. (I'm including potential moderation costs)
I think you are overestimating how many people care about Mastodon
I think you're probably underestimating how many people are going to care about Mastodon.
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#129I've been a happy omg.lol subscriber for years, originally as a fun little joke but it's actually pretty useful and I use my profile as my "link in bio" for twitter and other social sites. The founder, Adam, is a genuinely good dude. He just keeps adding more features and the service gets better and better.
It seems like a very nice service. It is great to hear that they are already around for quite some time. And remember: if you’re not paying, you are the product. This seams both very reasonably priced and also priced high enough that if you take a little care at running things well it can be sustainable
> if you’re not paying, you are the product
I guess you could also be both though, no?
Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
#130The negativity here is bizarre. This looks just about exactly like the first steps we need to create good spaces for social networking and publishing online. The guy is already taking feedback about subdomains and looking at selling domains, which obviously would give people a little more control and assurance they can own their stuff.
The readership of this site is for some reason primed to immediately surface negative feedback for almost anything creative that gets posted. It happens for basically every “Show HN.”
Which is why we have special rules for "Show HN" threads (this thread isn't one of those) that forbid that behavior.