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

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Post by cddotdotslash »

aklemm wrote: post #69

The negativity here is bizarre. This looks just about exactly like the first steps we need to create good spaces for social networking and publishing online. The guy is already taking feedback about subdomains and looking at selling domains, which obviously would give people a little more control and assurance they can own their stuff.

The readership of this site is for some reason primed to immediately surface negative feedback for almost anything creative that gets posted. It happens for basically every “Show HN.”

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

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Post by ekianjo »

Gigachad wrote: post #47
tptacek wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean, like every other service anybody stands up ever? The ones that charge money are the ones that stand any chance of surviving. https://archive.is/7LxAh

The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing. Going with Gmail or a custom domain is a really safe bet. There is no way I’d use an email service that’s less than 10 years old now. My gmail account from when I was a kid is still active and working while most of the vanity/foss/privacy focused ones I signed up for have since died.

> The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing

horses for carriage seem to defy that kind of assumption

Gotta love these kind of sayings that have virtually no connection with reality.

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

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Post by mastax »

yeldarb wrote: post #65

Bought one for my kiddo. He’s just a baby but still needs a unique email for me to create him accounts (eg frequent flyer, global entry) and I had previously been using a +variant on my gmail. Having a vanity email alias seems more fun.

A lot of services don't let you change your email address. Could cause some pain if this service doesn't exist in 20 years.

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

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Post by memorable »

Idk why but why are people getting mad at stuff that literally affects every other type of services online (like the chance of it shutting down)?

20$/year also doesnt sound all that expensive, thats 1.6$ per month! I rarely ever pay for things online, but I know damn well that anyone who pays for this service and then not use it would probably forget that they are paying because its so cheap!

Sigh Hacker News moment I guess. Criticising harshly for something thats suppose to be fun.

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

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Post by IgorPartola »

speedyapoc wrote: post #68
Gigachad wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing. Going with Gmail or a custom domain is a really safe bet. There is no way I’d use an email service that’s less than 10 years old now. My gmail account from when I was a kid is still active and working while most of the vanity/foss/privacy focused ones I signed up for have since died.

With the way Google and other providers have shutdown accounts with impunity, it’s hard to think of anything but a custom domain being a safe option.

You can move a custom domain easily enough. I am about to do that to move away for the GSuite’s fees. Worst case, I’ll invest into running a service on my own. Best case, I’ll just use Proton or FastMail, etc.

I guess registrars can go down too but it seems less likely.

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

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Post by kortilla »

verrp wrote: post #50
Gigachad wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing. Going with Gmail or a custom domain is a really safe bet. There is no way I’d use an email service that’s less than 10 years old now. My gmail account from when I was a kid is still active and working while most of the vanity/foss/privacy focused ones I signed up for have since died.

> The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing. aka the (postulated) Lindy Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

Just a different way of looking at survivorship bias (“all of these old buildings were built really well!”).

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

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Post by [deleted] »

aklemm wrote: post #69

The negativity here is bizarre. This looks just about exactly like the first steps we need to create good spaces for social networking and publishing online. The guy is already taking feedback about subdomains and looking at selling domains, which obviously would give people a little more control and assurance they can own their stuff.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

memorable wrote: post #84

Idk why but why are people getting mad at stuff that literally affects every other type of services online (like the chance of it shutting down)? 20$/year also doesnt sound all that expensive, thats 1.6$ per month! I rarely ever pay for things online, but I know damn well that anyone who pays for this service and then not use it would probably forget that they are paying because its so cheap! Sigh Hacker News moment…

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

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Post by blakewatson »

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 other services. It is ripe for creative integrations. Oh and the whole thing can be interacted with through an API. Pretty cool for $20. Definitely not the same as "just getting your own domain."

https://bw.omg.lol/

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