Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address • Hacker News Board

dcchambers wrote: post #73

I've been a happy omg.lol subscriber for years, originally as a fun little joke but it's actually pretty useful and I use my profile as my "link in bio" for twitter and other social sites. The founder, Adam, is a genuinely good dude. He just keeps adding more features and the service gets better and better.

It seems like a very nice service. It is great to hear that they are already around for quite some time.

And remember: if you’re not paying, you are the product. This seams both very reasonably priced and also priced high enough that if you take a little care at running things well it can be sustainable

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Post by IgorPartola » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 5:27 AM UTC

jhanschoo wrote: post #23

This looks like fun, reminds me of SDF but with an ability to provide more services due to the annual fee. edit: now that I revisit it, SDF does appear to provide more services, though probably with less commitment to reliability than omg.lol

SDF was an inspiration when I first found it. I think that it’s hard to capture what was so magical about it in a land of beige Windows boxes.

But what’s really amazing about it is that people still host things on there. And on top of that there are active message boards where people actually talk. It’s a weird little corner of the universe.

In a way I wish they had modernized a bit. But also I think if it turned into another PaaS system it would lose its charm. It is better off with the “weird” constraints that it has because it keeps it interesting.

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Post by mfkp » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 5:35 AM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #12

personjerry wrote: post #6

"Buy it for $20" omg lol no

They definitely should have a free version, limited of course. A sneaky one would be free for the first year, pay $20 thereafter to secure it.

That sounds like a nightmare with how many spammers you'd get. For $20 fee, that solves the vast majority of the spam problem.

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Post by nilespotter » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 5:36 AM UTC

cirrus3 wrote: post #30

sdfghjkiuyt wrote: post #11

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What kind of strange conspiracy rabbit holes have you dug yourself into? Take a step back and get out asap. It's just a fun subdomain to have... do you _really_ expect this is some secret initiative to start new social platform to rival "twitter/parler/etc" full of only "neoliberals"? oof. Where in the description did you infer this was in any way attempting to become "the ultimate fix for online discourse"?

it is obviously on the front page because people are running away from Twitter, now that the dominant, extreme left has lost control of the narrative there.