I would pay for Gmail if their IMAP support wasn't awful.
Do you actually have problems with Gmail's IMAP support in practice? I've heard similar comments about issues with Gmail's IMAP support, but it's working fine for me.
What sites would you pay to use?
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#52I pay for a Safari subscription. The quality of content there is so much better for some things than just randomly searching Google for programming problems. Right now, I have the $15 a month, but I'll go back to the $40 a month unlimited account after school's done and I'm in startup mode.
I also pay for a Rhapsody subscription. It's just so much nicer to have most any song available to me whenever I want it. Besides, I have a primordial dislike for I-Tunes. I did have a Yahoo Unlimited music subscription, but their customer service was awful.
I'd pay a bit for Gmail. I'd also pay a bit for Hacker News if it meant keeping Hacker News small and focused.
Re: What sites would you pay to use?
#53I would pay for Gmail if their IMAP support wasn't awful.
Do you actually have problems with Gmail's IMAP support in practice? I've heard similar comments about issues with Gmail's IMAP support, but it's working fine for me.
The biggest problem I have is the way they map IMAP "folders" to Gmail "tags". I guess my complaint is more with Gmail itself. Tags are nice, but I'd really like real folders too.
Also, you end up with basically two different inboxes: your real inbox, and the "All Mail" folder. You have to delete or mark messages in both places (I think there's supposed to be some sort of synchronization, but it's not obvious)
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#55I would pay for twitter. Definitely.
Re: What sites would you pay to use?
#56As to paying for Hacker News, there are several community sites that have a low one-time (non-reimbursable) fee for joining. MetaFilter ( http://www.metafilter.com/ ) costs $5 to join, for example. I feel like it makes the community a little more invested in the content, and is worth it overall. I think that paying for community membership will become more popular in the very near future.
i'm a member at the MeFi too, and agree that even that little fee helps keep the morons out (the odd misguided marketing twit notwithstanding).
Want proof? Check this out: http://www.thatsaspicymeatball.com/comments/
Compares the latest MeFi comments with the latest Youtube comments :)
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A good alternative to Google Reader is simply visiting the sites you want to :-) I'm being sarcastic, but I honestly don't get the point of using a web-based RSS reader, I've always just bookmarked and visited the sites I desire to check.
Have you tried using Google Reader or other? I used to bookmark and revisit, but there were two problems - too much time visiting sites when there were no updates and it was too much hassle to visit sites with rare updates (like pg essays or Yegge novels). Now I follow ~150 feeds and it takes less time than I spent following 10-15 with bookmarks.
I've solved that problem for me by configuring rawdog RSS reader. Now, it checks for update and generates a static HTML page. (if you are interested, here is the link: http://anton.kovalyov.net/tools/feeds/)
So I don't have to visit a website just to make sure that there are no updates and I also don't have to use some big RSS reader with a lot of unnecessary things (ajax, tags, stars, share with friend, etc.)
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried using Google Reader or other? I used to bookmark and revisit, but there were two problems - too much time visiting sites when there were no updates and it was too much hassle to visit sites with rare updates (like pg essays or Yegge novels). Now I follow ~150 feeds and it takes less time than I spent following 10-15 with bookmarks.
I've solved that problem for me by configuring rawdog RSS reader. Now, it checks for update and generates a static HTML page. (if you are interested, here is the link: http://anton.kovalyov.net/tools/feeds/ ) So I don't have to visit a website just to make sure that there are no updates and I also don't have to use some big RSS reader with a lot of unnecessary things (ajax, tags, stars, share with friend, etc.)
That's really nice! I like the fact that you control the output and that it's web accessible. Does it include a way to mark items as read or do they just drop off the bottom?
Re: What sites would you pay to use?
#60As to paying for Hacker News, there are several community sites that have a low one-time (non-reimbursable) fee for joining. MetaFilter ( http://www.metafilter.com/ ) costs $5 to join, for example. I feel like it makes the community a little more invested in the content, and is worth it overall. I think that paying for community membership will become more popular in the very near future.
I hope reddit starts charging people to post. The "joke accounts" are ruining the site. $5 would kill those in 20 seconds. Then we would just have to delete the non-programming parts of reddit. :)
Science, Gadgets & Cogsci are not bad either.