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I organize a lot of events for a rugby team, and our events are now all on Partiful. Maybe it'll go downhill like Evite and Facebook Events - but for now it's
by nostromo 2y ago
I organize a lot of events for a rugby team, and our events are now all on Partiful.
Maybe it'll go downhill like Evite and Facebook Events - but for now it's quite good.
- svnt 2y agoHow is it funded? That is your answer.
- echelon 2y agoNot everything is in the position or can afford to transitionally tax the whole of the internet itself like big tech. You're paying for Apple Invites whether you realize it or not. There's immense value in making their platform more sticky. In a few years you'll read articles about uncool Android kids not getting invited to parties. And that's your answer. One of these behaviors is way more insidious.
- ToucanLoucan 2y ago> You're paying for Apple Invites whether you realize it or not. There's immense value in making their platform more sticky. I'm not stuck to Apple's platform, I'm quite happy here. Apple services aren't drenched in ads end to end. Apple's services aren't constantly asking for nickels and dimes; it's one charge, every month, for a buffet of services that are regularly added to and actually improved, making them distinct from... fuck, the rest of the Internet basically, which seems to boil down to a revolving door of stupidly named services backed by VC funding that get popular, quickly, because they don't charge anything and aren't drenched in ads, and then slowly they add the ads, but there's an ad free tier for not much money, oh but now there's ads in that tier, which is also more expensive, and then the service shuts down because they didn't hit 60 billion users before their runway ran out, but there's this new service... And while I'm certain they do some spying and whatnot to facilitate targeted ads, they at least pay lip service to my privacy, and my experiences developing stuff for their hardware tells me that at least there is a whiff of security to their hardware. There are a lot of things as a developer I'm straight up not allowed to do. The "insidiousness" of Apple's plan so far seems to be, largely, making damn good products that people want to use, and backing them up with cloud services that work well. I wish more tech firms took that approach to be totally honest.
- highwaylights 2y agoYou're totally missing the point of parent. The cost is in how insidiously this behavior ostracizes Android owners over time, just like they've done for years with blue/green bubbles. I'm an Apple user, and it serves me well, but it absolutely uses really sinister dark patterns to separate me from contacts in the Android world.
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoI have never gotten the blue green ostacization. It's a color. It denotes whether you're using iMessage or SMS (now the new standard, RCS I think). Like I've heard of teenagers giving each other shit for it, I have never ever once in my life, myself or any person I've worked or been friends with, gives it a second thought. And if I actually heard someone attempting to make this into a thing I would judge them incredibly harshly.
- highwaylights 2y agoThat’s entirely the point though. I don’t mind it at all, nor would I care, but it others people that don’t have an iPhone (especially teenagers), and they also suggest this in their explanation (that a green bubble means the chat is no longer encrypted, even though WhatsApp and RCS exist). It’s a dark pattern that they’ve rightly been criticized for, but no-one has thus far cared enough to do something about it.
- briandear 2y agoI don’t want the uncool Android kids at my parties. Because then I have to listen to them droning on about the kids of things Android people drone on about.
- talldayo 2y agoCompared to all the cool stuff, like... checks the news ...Tim Cook's political backbone?
- jxdxbx 2y agoI mean, you can invite anyone. it’s not limited to apple device invitees.
- highwaylights 2y agoYeah, but like, with the crappiest possible version of this service that is a massive downgrade for them from something like partiful.
- whstl 2y ago> You're paying for Apple Invites whether you realize it or not I mean, it requires a paid iCloud account, so... yeah.
- dvngnt_ 2y agoThis already happens. My adult friend group has to create a separate group chat for me and another friends and we get the invite after the main group. partiful was actually a decent solution but they just got sherlocked
- highwaylights 2y agoThis already happens with green bubbles, it's not new.
- mjamesaustin 2y agoCurrently Partiful doesn't generate revenue, which is evidence for its quality. As soon as the purse strings get attached, it'll be time to get out. But for now, it's an excellent service.
- ryandrake 2y agoThis tracks so well as an indicator, with many other products. As soon as the company starts making money, their product is going to become awful and it's time to find an alternative. Why can't tech escape this cycle?
- foundart 2y agoBecause there’s always someone willing to lose money by offering a free product without the undesirable stuff in the hope that they can acquire customers to mine for cash later
- tyre 2y agoimo the most likely scenario is that they never charge and are acquired by Facebook. In exchange, FB gets access into your offline graph: people you interact IRL but not on social media. They can approximate relationships through Plus 1 invites. Work in an instagram component for sharing photos / albums / reels from an event. You’re pumping right back into the FOMOmachine.
- Schiendelman 2y agoIt has. Apple escaped this cycle. Their software is great. Instead of you being the product, you buy the product. People then just complain the product is expensive. On this website, I roll my eyes.
- lostlogin 2y agoI want nice things, zero cost and complete privacy without adverts. Why is this so hard? /s
- Aromasin 2y agoOur club uses Spond for invites. I'm not sure what the financial side of it looks like, but it's been great for coordinating training/games/socials.