Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

Post by alimov » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 11:19 PM UTC

shmatt wrote: post #282

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…

...Also your lifetime account is basically worthless if more people don't sign up and pay. As there is no reason for the owner to lose money giving you services

Post by SpencerOMG » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 11:22 PM UTC

alimov wrote: post #361

shmatt wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...Also your lifetime account is basically worthless if more people don't sign up and pay. As there is no reason for the owner to lose money giving you services

Is that not the same situation as with every other service out there?

Post by lucasyvas » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 1:22 AM UTC

collinmanderson wrote: post #321

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…

> Edit 2: The price is even the same! $19.95 vs $20 $19.95 per month vs $20 per year.

Post by robjan » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 4:10 AM UTC

avree wrote: post #300

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.

Post by kzshantonu » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 7:29 AM UTC

alberth wrote: post #350

vukky wrote: post #348

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://home.omg.lol/info/switchboard , the "external domains" section

That section reads more like you can just have another domain redirect to omg.lol profile, as opposed to be served from that external domain. Am I reading that correctly? Meaning, your profile wouldn't be served from "example.com" but instead, "example.com" would simply do a browser redirect to "omg.lol/example"