Been using https://docs.new for the past 2-3 months.
It's absolutely game-changing as I'm writing a bunch of stories and need to iterate fast and recompile my thoughts just by typing in 8 characters.
Google Announces .new Domain Availability
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Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability
#32I use a .io domain and I get why .com isn't sufficient, but I really fail to see the value that this, along with most of the other cute new tld's, bring to the world.
More than anything, I fear that it will teach my parents that domains can look like anything, so that link in the email is probably fine.
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#33The only super useful version of this idea is a privacy law that requires services that collect data to offer a “facebook.delete” link to temporarily and permanently remove personal data.
Please, please, please let this become a thing. I hate how many sites force you to jump through hoops to remove your data and/or close your account.
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#34As mentioned on the linked page, http://docs.new , http://sheets.new , and http://slides.new exist as shortcuts to get to a new google doc, but it doesn't play well with Chrome's address bar - using them makes getting to existing docs and sheets take an extra step. Not the worst, but still, kind of annoying.
If you have a both a personal gmail account and a for-work "google for business" account - the shortcut will take you to whatever account you signed into first.
If you attempt to switch to a different account after accessing https://docs.new/, that will trigger an "ask for permission to access document" dialog.
Not awesome.
(AFAIK, the only way to fix this is to sign out and then log back in, in the "correct" order.)
(This is on a Windows desktop running Chrome.)
Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability
#35There's a requirements list, by the way: "That means that all .new domains registrations must: - Be used for action generation or online content creation; - Take the user directly into the action generation or content creation flow; - Resolve to the action within 100 days of registration;* and - Allow Google Registry to verify compliance at no cost."
checked link.new which is owned by bitly, it goes to bitly sign up page instead of link shortener. This is bad
That is an exception in the reqs
"An exception is provided for services that require a user to be logged in, navigation to a .new domain may bring a logged-out user to a sign up or sign in page"
Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability
#36lets just go back to IP addresses at this point
Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability
#37Been using https://docs.new for the past 2-3 months. It's absolutely game-changing as I'm writing a bunch of stories and need to iterate fast and recompile my thoughts just by typing in 8 characters.
The singular version works, too. https://doc.new
Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Other way around: repo.new would redirect to github.com/repositories/new. Imagine a webapp whose landing view page is very heavy-to-load because it’s a view of your library of documents. Like, say, Google Docs. Now imagine there’s a thing you can type instead of docs.google.com (i.e. https://docs.new ) that’ll let you skip past that library view, straight to a blank new document view, so you can immediately start typ…
> Other way around: repo.new would redirect to github.com/repositories/new. Look at that!, it does redirect to github.com/new/ I guess that will be useful for some people? It feels a little bit like mystery meat though; how do I discover these super useful shortcuts? If I am someone who would benefit from learning a quick-to-type shortcut for performing an action, say because I create these things all the time, what…
You can type it on arbitrary people’s computers, not just your own. Same reason text-editor default shortcuts are important.
Not sure about discoverability. Probably they’d just mention the shortcut on the canonical page.
Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability
#39So the stated use case is for 'performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it.' So it's expecting users to go to a different website to perform one specific action, and then return to the original website? If I'm on github.com, click the new repo button, and get redirected to 'repo.new' I'm assuming the website has been hacked. If I want t…
I wonder if CLI commands is a valid use case, e.g: curl -L https://myapp.new | bash
But we already have .sh [1]!
Re: Google Announces .new Domain Availability
#40As mentioned on the linked page, http://docs.new , http://sheets.new , and http://slides.new exist as shortcuts to get to a new google doc, but it doesn't play well with Chrome's address bar - using them makes getting to existing docs and sheets take an extra step. Not the worst, but still, kind of annoying.
oooh neat! this is something i can see myself using quite often.
i've got google drive bookmarked, but i do also type in drive.google.com or docs.google.com etc into the url bar quite a lot, often times to make a new document.
now i can just do ctrl+t->docs.new->start typing words on a page