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Yes. Or MapQuest. Hey, this is the internet. We all switched from AltaVista to Google and from MapQuest to Google Maps, and from Yahoo mail to Gmail. If Google
by officemonkey 13y ago
Yes. Or MapQuest.
Hey, this is the internet. We all switched from AltaVista to Google and from MapQuest to Google Maps, and from Yahoo mail to Gmail. If Google sucks, vote with your feet.
It's really no harder than changing a bookmark.
- glesica 13y agoWhen changing mail providers (I chose Fastmail) I made sure to pick a service that would let me use my own domain. I now "own" my email address, so in the future switching will be even easier. I suggest others do the same.
- mathgladiator 13y agoThis is great for the few like us that enjoy having a personal domain, but most people don't which is very unfortunate. It's very-painful for most people to migrate email providers.
- glesica 13y agoI wonder if there's a business opportunity there: make it easy to own a personal domain name and use it with various other services. So instead of having to monkey with MX records for mail, you just say "I'm using provider X and here is my account info.". If distributed social networks ever go anywhere (a dubious proposition, I'll admit) then automatic configuration/hosting could be bundled, with all the necessary configuration and DNS records done for the user. Of course this magical company could go bust, but even if it did, the users would technically be able to migrate to one or more other providers without losing anything, including URLs.
- icebraining 13y agoThe problem is that the popular free providers don't offer domain hosting, and the paid ones that do (e.g., Google Apps, FastMail) already handle that for you, if you let them.
- cpeterso 13y agoBing Maps is a little ugly, but it's actually pretty good and much faster than the new Google Maps.