nicetriangle

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[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They had premium light which gave you just a no ad experience and nothing else for about $7/mo. Totally reasonable, I was happy to pay it. Then right at the same time they started going nuclear on ad blocking, they killed that plan and forced everyone to move to a plan that costs about 70% more and added a bunch of stuff I didn't ask for and will never use. They had those added services available already prior to that change. If I had wanted them I'd already be subscribing. This was just a greedy cash grab.

They'll just keep jacking the price up and decreasing the quality of service and mining your data and annoying you with ads and algorithmic bullshit just up until they can't anymore and it stops being optimally profitable. A lot of people will just put up with it, but they lost me as a customer.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social -1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I guess a positive outcome of this might be people more seriously considering alternatives to Github. Something about MS owning the defacto developer platform never sounded good to me.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

These tech articles on some new advancement are basically the same phenomenon of bullshit as articles ending in a question mark. The answer is always "nah"

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Man that is nuts how thoroughly those guys are folding when they've done absolutely nothing illegal

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 53 points 10 months ago (8 children)

This is just gonna be a Streisand Effect situation. Now I know about this app and it sounds pretty great.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

The Bell Riots story line is by far my fave DS9 arc. There’s a really good Terry Pratchett book with roughly the same concept that is also my favorite of his books. It’s called Night Watch.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago

You’re in the wrong forum

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sweet post. To me this looks like the makings of a sustainable community and I remain pretty optimistic. Curious what the numbers for Kbin would look like.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah I just plugged some of those playlists into JDownloader and got a shitload of stuff pretty easy

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 44 points 10 months ago

Jesus christ the Max has been a clownshow of one problem after another

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I've seen a lot of SNES still working today. I had one myself just a few years ago and sold it when I had a big move. So that's a lifespan of about 25-33 years depending on when the existing units were produced.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 214 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Fucking delusional on this writer’s part. It was far more than dozens and a lot of those people were power users with an outsized influence on the community.

I personally moderated two 150-250k user subs. Stepped down from both and wiped all my posts and comments and have not contributed a single thing since.

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