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Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

#161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how's the water? https://youtu.be/eC7xzavzEKY

Odd that you reply to me with a bitterly ironic link, yet not to the other commenter. Have a nice day, you need it.

The other comment was not posted in good faith.

it's bait

by the way, I posted that link sincerely.

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

#162
Anyone remember hey.com from a couple of years ago? Offered a chance to get a email at a 3-letter domain dot com....yeah and how many people are still using their hey.com email today?

This is also similar to about.me links people were posting from a couple of years ago.

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

#163

This 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)

This says more about you than the branding.

It's hard to notice anything these days without getting in trouble.

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

#165

Anyone remember hey.com from a couple of years ago? Offered a chance to get a email at a 3-letter domain dot com....yeah and how many people are still using their hey.com email today? This is also similar to about.me links people were posting from a couple of years ago.

A difference I think is that this site has a kind of personality to it. The others seem quite generic. I think it is actually quite a differentiator

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

#167

You get a surprising amount of functionality for $20. I just got an account and I've been poking around for about an hour. I'm seriously impressed. You get: - a webpage - DNS - email forwarding - a statuslog - url shortener - a pastebin - a weblog - an optional Mastodon account - optional IRC/Discord - and probably some more stuff I missed And all of this stuff is much more configurable than it would typically be on…

It's not $20. It's $20 per year . I know that might be semantic for some people, but for much of these services, I wouldn't want it going away after 1 year if I'm unable to pay that cost again. And for that reason, I think it's worth noting.

Domain registration has to be renewed, either per year or per years if you buy a bunch of licenses up front. So what's the alternative to this then? A lot of domains can cost around $20 per year.

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

#169
post #166

Am I dreaming? There seems to be something weird about this post and its comments.

Are you implying AI-generated astroturfing? We’re rapidly approaching the scenario depicted in XKCD 810 [1].

Edit: OK, on actually reading the comments I agree. Something weird. Hmm.

[1] https://xkcd.com/810/

Re: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

#170

I'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.

> I've been a happy omg.lol subscriber for years

Interesting, how many years would you estimate it's been around?

I see their Mastodon server is pretty new (since last July) and wayback doesn't have the homepage archived at all. Can't think of another way of checking.

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