Don’t get me wrong, I think its very weird too. I’ve been curious how it actually happens, though.

Does anyone in the industry know how/if that stuff needs approval from someone? Like does the family estate OK it or something?

I don’t say this to downplay your experience, but as a more positive way to look at it. Maybe you couldn’t have come to this realization without having gone through this. Maybe you didn’t waste your time, and you didn’t miss out on anything, because you were doing what seemed right at the time and now you’ve learned from it. You wouldn’t have this new clarity without having gone through the darkness.

I tried it for a year but I don’t watch very much of the type of content on there so I ended up canceling it. It’s a decent app. Definitely missing a lot of the QOL of something as long in development as YouTube, but it wasn’t bad.

I don’t think their goal is to be a YouTube alternative for what its worth. They seem to cater it towards very specific types of videos (mostly educational and news content creators).

This corroborates my suspicions about living with a smartphone. I’m not someone who has tried to avoid them, but I still think there should be options for people who don’t like them. I’ve seen more and more things that seem to be smartphone only, and I’ve been wondering if they do anything for people without one, or if they’re just shit out of luck.

I agree. At the very least they say “this many people liked what you said or posted enough to click this button”, and that is far from meaningless.

I miss this too. Was fun sometimes.

Supergiant has one of the best art teams in the business, so I’m not surprised it’s hard to do.

I’m not an expert but I think you should be fine on the lower one. My understanding is that most plans wildly overemphasize what you need for an activity. Like they’ll say the most expensive one is for gaming but in reality the cheap one would work completely fine for a single person.

I used to have 55mbps and I never had any issues. You won’t be downloading huge games in minutes but just plan ahead and you’ll be fine.

Yeah it suddenly made sense why apps seem to always have new updates even when it’s something super basic that doesn’t need more features.

This isn’t an answer to your main question, but I recently learned that if you don’t release updates at your app for a couple years google deletes your app from the store (and your developer account if you only had one app). That’s a reason why some old apps disappear.

Thanks for the info. You’ve given me some things I need to consider.

I see, thanks for the info

Can you clarify what you mean by a nonprofit domain? The places I would need to forward right now are a few gmail addresses, a domain I own, and a couple zoho addresses (though those also use a custom domain, not sure if that changes things).

That’s a great callout and a very important feature to me. Do you use anything other than gmail? To be honest the encryption isn’t the main selling point for me, I would just like to de-google where I can these days.

No actually, thanks for passing that along!

+1 to this. And yes I’m extremely biased as a kid from Seattle.

Sorry, what was that? “BUY BUY BUY”?

I went to school with a kid named Merlin Sunlight.

Did he say it noz-moh or noh-smoh?