If anything, I think LJ missed a trick by not having the option of doing a double subscription (so £3.99), and saying the extra £2 gets split between the instances, weighted by the time you spend time on them.
If anything, I think LJ missed a trick by not having the option of doing a double subscription (so £3.99), and saying the extra £2 gets split between the instances, weighted by the time you spend time on them.
I think I might have felt differently at a stage of my life where I didn’t have nearly as much disposable income as I do now.
Over the past few years, I’ve adopted the attitude of trying my hardest to pay for the things that I would be genuinely disappointed if they went away.
I have system-wide ad block, so the $20 or whatever for Sync actually bought me nothing other than the knowledge that if LJ decides to pack up Sync and go and work for a FAANG instead, I don’t need to feel guilty.
This attitude would be unrecognisable to my younger self.
not wanting to pay a subscription fee
It’s a one-time $20. It’s literally in the meme were both commenting on.
Maybe wherever you live. In first world countries, it’s fairly straightforward.
There is seemingly no easy way to synchronise settings over accounts. This makes initial setup with multiple accounts frustrating, and future changes a little annoying.
Set up account -> Backup -> Switch to new account -> Restore
Ah, so it’s, like, a brutalist, function over form preference?
From your perspective - yes, exactly that and I think that’s probably the best way you can understand it.
From my perspective, the old.reddit.com UI (with RES) is possibly the most beautifully designed web page I’ve ever encountered. I certainly couldn’t have used it almost daily for the past 12 years if that wasn’t the case.
I can focus on content much better when the UI is breathing. And I prefer clients that have images already expanded, to save me the clicks.
I can understand and respect that while thinking you’re insane. If I had to guess, your formative experience with technology was via touch screens and I think that would go a long way to explaining your preferences.
For me, post uniformity is important. It feels like I’m in control of the experience and I’m browsing rather than having things shoved in my face. I have Imagus installed so I only need to hover over a link to see the picture and so I can just look at the pictures I’m interested in - one at a time.
Full disclosure - my earliest experiences in the Internet were bulletin boards and that probably had a formative part in my preferences. I’m also probably undiagnosed something.
Information density and minimal whitespace. Can’t stand this trend of only using the middle third of the screen.
Not working for me.
We could, if we wanted, literally just decide
This is basically what it comes down to.
Unless you’re worried about Charlie sailing to France to raise a mercenary army, we can assume he’ll do exactly what he’s told.
Even if the Crown Estate was his personal property (which it isn’t) - parliament is sovereign and there’s more of us than him. We could just take it from him.
God, I hope long enough to see a Great British Republic.
I swear every monarchy-loving flag-shagger bases their entire personality off the same 4 minute, 12-year-old poorly researched youtube video.
No, Charlie Boy would not get to keep the Crown Estate were we to evict him.
In that you know to avoid the weirdo in the corner wearing a “Ask me why I know morse code” t-shirt at the party?
Tl;dr Italy invented the pizza but the US invented the pizzeria.
Pretending you’re blind and deaf to popular culture (to the extent where you claim to have never heard of one of the best-selling artists of all time) is an order of magnitude more cringe and obnoxious than people who obsess over celebrities.
Really appreciate the response - thank you.
I just had a handful of domains tick over renewal on Google Domains in the past week, so I suppose I’ll have some time to see what Squarespace is like from an administration perspective before I end up having to commit to renewing with them.
In what way?
Any reason you’re not just sticking with Squarespace?
I first started browsing reddit in late 2011 and even by then it felt a little like I was arriving at a party that had already been going a while and people had their in-jokes and cliques (to a way lesser extent than today).
In the best possible way, Lemmy/kbin feels a lot like we all arrived early and the host is still running around trying to make sure everything’s ready.
I can’t tell if you’re taking the piss or you genuinely think 10 seconds of effort is “hard”.