181–190 of 623 posts
I literally dont understand why they did this. Their product was fine as is so didn't need more features, maintenance burden minimal. Isn't google domains just a UI for their GCP domains product? Will that get shut down? Will all my domains suddenly have a pointless premium on them? Cloudflare, please gain tld parity asap!
It wasn't a "google scale" product. That's how FANG thinks
The problem is not leadership or management. It is the owners. It is Larry and Sergey.
Does this mark a new transition for google leadership? Will google start to sell their unwanted businesses instead of just killing them?
Another headstone in the google graveyard. This one doesn't make any sense to me, either, unless there are weird regulatory issues they want to avoid since it seemed like a very popular registrar. Or maybe they just didn't want to staff any limited customer support team.
> This one doesn't make any sense to me I'm also confused, it's a paid product! If it wasn't making enough money, why didn't they just raise the price? It already wasn't the cheapest name registrar, so I don't think people were selecting it solely based on cost (I went with it because of the free 100 email aliases included, but others liked the clean layout and simplicity compared to some other options.) I get why th…
It wasn't "the cheapest registrar" because they didn't offer "signup deals", just like cloudflare. Other cheaper registrar offer a signup deal for $1 or $2 a domain (subtext: renews for $24 dollars the next year)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft has also set more products in solid granite than Google.
Good old Windows Cement. https://external-preview.redd.it/1WN9Vrz1gjERiGjyfJ8kUZEANRB...
Windows XP incorporated more user-centric elements from 9x, which culminated with ME, into NT.
Windows 8 incorporated more mobile-centric elements from CE into NT.
Windows is still rock solid at running programs from almost 30 years ago.
Does anyone have an ELI5 for how to proceed? I have several websites that use this. What's the course of action required here, if any?
I've been using Google Domains for a few years (previously used Namecheap); but, a few months ago, I took a domain I don't actively use and transferred it to Porkbun after reading so many positive comments on HN about that registrar. I was thinking, "Well, you never know about Google, so I may as well see how it goes, just in case." Have, indeed, been very pleased with Porkbun. The article says it'll be some months b…
When you transfer a domain to Porkbun, do any pre-paid years of registration travel across with the domain transfer, or are you starting "from scratch" in that regard?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of them still run, though. Either directly on modern Windows or with something like ReactOS. You can't keep using Inbox once it's shut down.
>Most of them still run specifically, how are those audio files bought from the M$ mu$ic store when they pulled the plug on the licensing server for their DRM? your claim of still running on modern Windows would be impressive if it is actually true, but saying to use a completely different OS is not something the vast majority of people not typically reading HN are going to do.
Windows and Microsoft are the legendary backwards compatibility outlier in the software industry where essentially everyone else moves fast and breaks shit.
I was a Google die hard, everything except Reader that they killed made sense. At this point it seems like the CFO is in charge and no good product is safe.
Reader probably made “sense” too for the axe-wielding CFO, in that I can’t imagine it generated any meaningful revenue. But I also can’t imagine it consumed much in the way of resources either… I still use Gmail, but that’s it for me among Google’s offerings. (I can’t easily transition away from that due to using my email address for several hundred login credentials, though I suppose I really should begin that proje…
How long until the "don't trust Google to not kill a product" feeling becomes so widespread it begins to hurt them? I don't know any historical precedents...
After being an enthusastic early advocate for Google (Gmail since invite in 2004), I've been slowly migrating away from Google for years. The turning point for me was when they killed Google Music, which I had been using for a decade, forcing me to move my large catalog of songs elsewhere. I self host via Plex now. Strike 1. Then they killed the "free domain email", which became freeish (grandfathered) "google workgr…