Well they were dishonest about the product behavior in multiple cases, such as adding referral links to search results. That makes it a bad product.

I’m in the US and I only have Standard as an option in my account. Is that the same as Basic or did they get rid of it here already?

Thank goodness. I came here because I didn’t want to be a customer.

Was gunna say, looks like he’s looting the lava more than doing a carefully controlled scientific procedure.

TIL Valve started and maintains Proton..

Wait, so people used to take this guy seriously? I watched a review he did on some sim racing gear a few years back and it was obvious the guy didn’t google even the most basic advice on how to set up a sim rig properly.

I read about their name change and wondered what it was. I had a similar experience. Really bad UX. When you click join it asks you if you want to create a new server or join an existing server. I picked “join existing” but the first button on the page is to “submit your server”.

I clicked the “verified” server which was down (and is still down… who goes down for days for a domain change?)

I clicked another server and hit Explore and it showed me a list of pinned users that supposedly had many posts each, however I clicked on various elements such as the post count trying to view them and couldn’t. At that point I just closed my browser tab.

I assume this thing is some sort of Mastodon-like social network but coming in blind it’s hard to tell.

Not really, IMO. I maintained a large open source project for a few years and the amount of time suck and mental drain is hard to overstate. Most employers seemed to barely look at it even though they could have clearly seen how I programmed, interacted with users, etc. And, if you decide to stop maintaining it, all those happy users are going to be unhappy users. Given that even bad developers have not much trouble getting steady work, and that all that time could have been invested in a project that earned or had the potential to earn money, it’s sort of hard to justify outside of personal passion. Just my experience, anyway…

Push notifications are an ongoing cost as well.

Since it seems like a lot of people here aren't aware, this is app is open source and publicly licensed, and you can watch the effort being put in on github. It seems like the developer has been working around the clock to get this done, for free, writing code that is owned by the community. If you are loving it, send a few bucks to say thanks: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink

Watching the github repo, the amount of time the developer has been putting in has been ridiculous. You can send a few bucks to say thanks: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink

The code is open sourced under a public license. The developer doesn't own the code any more than you do. If they added ads someone could just fork it and remove them.

That said, running a large open source project is difficult and frustrating. Any donations they receive will likely be a pittance compared to what they would make spending that time coasting in a corporate dev job. Send them a few bucks as a thank you: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink