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a good story about floatplane: i signed up pretty much as soon as it was announced, then i forgot about it and also forgot my password. i was billed -very litt

by znpy 6y ago

a good story about floatplane: i signed up pretty much as soon as it was announced, then i forgot about it and also forgot my password. i was billed -very little- for a while then i opened a support ticket to have my account restored, since i had been billed for a while i at least wanted to watch some content. but apparently something in the backend had changed and they plainly refunded me from the time i had my last login (iirc) and then they allowed me to re-signup. it's been nice because i had then been able to re-signup and also recover some money that were pretty much lost, and i wasn't expecting that nor asking for it. i really hope to see floatplane grow!

Bakary 6y ago
Can you imagine Google doing such a thing? I'm chuckling just thinking about how improbable that would be. This is why those services as so necessary.
strogonoff 6y ago
The problem with Floatplane is that new creators who have ideas and skills but aren’t publishing elsewhere online (e.g., because they dislike the ad-driven model and don’t want their videos to appear alongside junk content) have nothing in terms of online optics that they could put into the application form—so they’d have to either support the likes of YouTube first by publishing there, or be capable of running their own site. I wish Floatplane charged a moderate fee upfront rather than having the vetting/review flow (which could still be an option for those who can’t afford the fee).
- t0astbread 6y ago
  Vimeo (if I'm not mistaken) offers a plan where you pay them to host your videos and they don't roll any ads on them.
  - strogonoff 6y ago
    That’d be a great feature compared to the majority of platforms. The big question would be whether they force recommendations from other channels elsewhere on the page or at the end of a video.
    - t0astbread 6y ago
      Just checked on Andrew Kelly's channel (https://vimeo.com/andrewrk https://vimeo.com/andrewrk) and no, it really does look like you get a space of your own. Which makes sense given that show reels / corporate marketing videos appears to be what Vimeo is focusing on.

by znpy 6y ago

Bakary 6y ago

Can you imagine Google doing such a thing? I'm chuckling just thinking about how improbable that would be. This is why those services as so necessary.

strogonoff 6y ago

The problem with Floatplane is that new creators who have ideas and skills but aren’t publishing elsewhere online (e.g., because they dislike the ad-driven model and don’t want their videos to appear alongside junk content) have nothing in terms of online optics that they could put into the application form—so they’d have to either support the likes of YouTube first by publishing there, or be capable of running their own site. I wish Floatplane charged a moderate fee upfront rather than having the vetting/review flow (which could still be an option for those who can’t afford the fee).

t0astbread 6y ago
Vimeo (if I'm not mistaken) offers a plan where you pay them to host your videos and they don't roll any ads on them.
- strogonoff 6y ago
  That’d be a great feature compared to the majority of platforms. The big question would be whether they force recommendations from other channels elsewhere on the page or at the end of a video.
  - t0astbread 6y ago
    Just checked on Andrew Kelly's channel (https://vimeo.com/andrewrk https://vimeo.com/andrewrk) and no, it really does look like you get a space of your own. Which makes sense given that show reels / corporate marketing videos appears to be what Vimeo is focusing on.