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

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Post by dcow »

andrecarini wrote: post #284
zupa-hu wrote: post #217

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Which in the end is true for domains as well. Someone decides to sell subdomains of X, weather X is com or omg.lol. Com could be free as well. The only real difference is choice. Or to put it differently, you say it doesnt need registration. Well, it does. They require it. So what.

I think the main difference is a proper domain from a major registrar grants you ownership rights that you don't get from leased subdomains like OP's (mainly the ability to keep the domain even if the registrar goes out of business; and moving the domain between registrars).

What do you mean “ownership rights”?

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

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Post by chaozznl »

temporary22 wrote: post #207
beebmam wrote: post #154

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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.

My domain is 26 per year. This is cheap af and I'm reconsidering ditching my domain in favour of this.

What if this service stops to exist after 2 years? Then any place you advertised/published this subdomain will need to be updated. With your own domain you won't have that issue, ever. Why would you give that up?

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

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Post by brnt »

Rudism wrote: post #264

How do these email addresses do against spam filters? In my experience trying to send an email from any domain on a non-standard TLD (regardless of properly configured SPF and DKIM) gets heavily penalized and almost always ends up going straight to the recipient's junk mail folder.

They don't. Because new TLDs are default on many blocklists, not necesarily blocked but you're one or two mistakes away (shouty title, short body) that you'll be thrown on the blocklist eventually.

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

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Post by zhynn »

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…

I love the service, I hate the name. It's got too much cute/whimsy for my taste, and it just makes me feel like the "hello fellow teenagers" guy. If they had the same everything but it was a "short and easy to spell/pronounce" domain service, I would 100% go for it.

It doesn't have to be entirely boring, but less... cute. Also I think that meme language has a high risk of drifting into the cringe zone, and then that will feel bad too. I would have the same problem with lit.lol or yeet.lol.

Am I alone in being willing to pay more for less whimsy? Give me the $30/year plan where I can pick bucket.web or tiny.star or something less of the moment.

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

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Post by jxdxbx »

zhynn wrote: post #305
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…

I love the service, I hate the name. It's got too much cute/whimsy for my taste, and it just makes me feel like the "hello fellow teenagers" guy. If they had the same everything but it was a "short and easy to spell/pronounce" domain service, I would 100% go for it. It doesn't have to be entirely boring, but less... cute. Also I think that meme language has a high risk of drifting into the cringe zone, and then that…

oh same. I'm not sure I'd want this with anything other than my own domain name anyway, but definitely I wouldn't want "omg.lol". I hate that internet-ass humor.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Duralias wrote: post #288
raziel31 wrote: post #271

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okay so whats the point of joining omg.lol's mastodon instance if i can already access contents from another server? whats the special?

Almost all instances are run by volunteers, in this case you'd be using an instance you pay for, which should mean it will be more reliable and won't suddenly disappear. But if it does then you can just migrate almost everything over (was something left behind that I cannot remember, but everything important is moved over).

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

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Post by veratwiger »

gnarbarian wrote: post #136
bobsmooth wrote: post #127

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The example profile includes pronouns.

It's more than that, it's the entire theme. It screams "you're not welcome here." It's the left wing equivalent of putting up a bunch of burning crosses and pretending they don't mean anything. I know exactly how fairly I would be treated in that community and it looks like this: (the flagged and dead comment below this) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271510

It screams "everyone is welcome here."

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

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Post by fmisle »

b1gtuna wrote: post #296
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..?

Either on the social.lol mastodon or the IRC https://home.omg.lol/info/irc

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

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Post by jxdxbx »

borski wrote: post #239
nailer wrote: post #222

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And Fastmail. Fastmail is to programmers what Superhuman is for salespeople.

What is so great about fastmail? I keep hearing people talk about it but haven’t “gotten it” yet.

Fastmail is just normal IMAP unlike Gmail, so it works with email clients without weirdness around folders and archiving. It also supports native push notifications on iOS, which Gmail does not. And it works well with your own domain names.

That said I switched to using iCloud mail with my own domain as soon as it was available.

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