#indieweb 2023-11-01

2023-11-01 UTC
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Zegnat [tantek]: that looks like a cool map in general!
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Zegnat That BeReal article is the type of article I have been really getting annoyed by. It cites some tweets about people who do not like BeReal to bolster that Apptopia said they only had 6mil daily active users (DAU). And only lend half the second to last paragraph to the fact BeReal themselves presented a DAU of 25mil, grown from earlier this year...
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[snarfed] .io domains are not cheap! http://granary.io just got renewed for $70, ouch
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aaronpk 😮
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aaronpk i feel like I am still at like $35 for mine
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[snarfed] hmm. I'm on Gandi, I like them a lot, but no clue how competitive their prices are
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aaronpk ok i just checked my namecheap and it's up to $45
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rubenwardy probably doesn't help that it's a dictionary word
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GWG This is why I only buy the cheapest TLDs
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[snarfed] I mean...price isn't everything 😁
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GWG [snarfed]: Agreed... but it's like a vanity license plate
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[snarfed] yup. for people who really care about cars, those are worth the extra bit of money. we here obviously really care about web sites, so more expensive TLDs may often be worth it to at least some of us
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[snarfed] (.io is problematic so it's a bad example, but still)
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rubenwardy domain names are usually checking than the hosting
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rubenwardy I know someone who bought a $20,000 domain name though
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GWG I care about the whole domain, not necessarily the tld part though.
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GWG Shame those people in Kenya who won't let me buy a .ke
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rubenwardy I'm annoyed someone owns rdy.co.uk, means I can't get rdy.uk
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rubenwardy currently use rwdy.uk instead
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GWG I own many .us es
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Zegnat People value domains. Best example, which I mentioned to [tantek] over drinks in Nürnberg: https://milk.com/value/
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Zegnat “People occasionally email me about buying the domain milk.com from me. […] That is, if you're not offering $10 million, I'm not interested.”
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[nsmsn] I bought a domain for my kid after she was born. No idea how interested in this stuff she will be someday...
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GWG I just offer a free subdomain to anyone with the appropriate name
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GWG No takers so far
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[nsmsn] Noone else in the family wants a website?
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GWG Nope
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GWG Just me.
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GWG Personal website specifically
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GWG My brother and his kids did try a business selling novelty door mats
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[nsmsn] Did they have a clever domain name?
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GWG Why? Do you want an unwelcome mat?
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[nsmsn] I think I'm good. Just curious
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lifeofpablo Just wondering if London/Europe HWC is happening today?
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[marksuth] yep, clocks went back in the UK on Sunday so it'll be starting in about 30 mins
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lifeofpablo That time of year again, huh? Sounds good!
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[marksuth] HWC Europe/London starts in 10 minutes if folk want to join: https://events.indieweb.org/2023/11/homebrew-website-club-europe-london-HRrfHfI6PObF
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Loqi [preview] LIVE NOW: Homebrew Website Club Europe/London
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[snarfed] I feel like at some point I should find a designer to redesign all of Bridgy and Bridgy Fed
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[snarfed] visual design and UX both feel stuck in the early 2000s 🤷
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[tantek] [snarfed] the design iterations have been great!
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[tantek] I'm happy to submit CSS patches to keep incrementally improving things if you like.
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[tantek] Though first I need to patch the wiki CSS to work better on mobile
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[tantek] also maybe a #indieweb-dev convo
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vhbelvadi Hello IndieWeb
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[snarfed] thanks [tantek]! incremental CSS improvements are absolutely welcome
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[KevinMarks] It has the bootstrap low weight low contrast vibe, but that should be a small fix