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

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Post by layer8 »

mushufasa wrote: post #283
bmitc wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What if they offered a 'lifetime' rate which is the NPV of $20 over 20 years, so like $1000 or something? You pay once and get it forever. Of course, only as long as they can operate the service forever...

That’s the main issue I see, they can stop the service at any time and then you’ll have no chance to get the subdomain back. You’re in a much better position with an actual second-level domain, because you can move the domain between service providers and registrars, and depending on locality you may also have actual legal rights to keep owning the domain.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

blakewatson wrote: post #90

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…

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

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Post by george_probably »

627467 wrote: post #45

If 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)

The service has been around for years, the real die-hards are actually on the IRC (which recently got a tie-in with a Discord server for those who want to chat on there without having the technical knowhow to use IRC).

I personally got it for the webpage, to use as an online business card, and have been loving all of the other stuff that surrounds it like the new Weblog feature

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

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Post by b1gtuna »

freddyym wrote: post #213

Have been using this for 7/8 months and its honestly great. The community is really wholesome, the admin is very helpful and the product is far more than just a silly webpage. Glad to see it getting attention on HN!

Signed up last night. Where / how do I find this community..?

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

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Post by layer8 »

lucasyvas wrote: post #71

I expected to hate this and walked away thinking it was a pretty ok idea. Good job! The idea of curating alternate services together and offering it as a product feels novel - does anyone else do this? I'd love to see hosting offered for curated open source services that are interoperable. Sort of like all those WordPress hosts of yore (and today!). Edit: omg.lol, is it AOL?? :D Edit 2: The price is even the same! $1…

aol.omg.lol is still available.

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

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Post by sphars »

SpencerOMG wrote: post #267

Felt like making an account here just to say how much I've been enjoying this service. I got a lifetime license awhile back and love how it just keeps giving. The shortened email is cool enough, but all the extra goodies are just really tasty icing on the cake. The simple status social media site is fun because it's so low friction, you don't worry about anything other than just creating a stream of little updates. I…

Oh man, I just tried to see if spencer.omg.lol was available and it looks like I'm already too late! This was my first time hearing about omg.lol, so congrats on beating me to the punch :D

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

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Post by JasonFruit »

bovermyer wrote: post #266
LibertyBeta wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See, I don't get this. Last time I tried fastmail I ended up on proton because it was just slightly... Kludgy. DNS was slow. Webmail was a mess. And the mobile client scene wasn't worth it. That said, the billing side wasn't bad.

That's fascinating. My experience is exactly the opposite - Proton is slow and awful, and Fastmail is fast and clean.

Mine lines up with yours: Fastmail has been great, Proton started okay and has gotten progressively worse.

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

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Post by avree »

Dwedit wrote: post #292

When you get an email address from someone, you need assurance that they'll be around in 5+ years. Hotmail and Gmail aren't going anywhere.

When Gmail launched, people were writing this exact same comment about how Yahoo and Hotmail aren't going anywhere.
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