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This reminds me of reactions to the HN Dropbox announcement [1], "Just set up FTP, curlftpfs and SVN". Same could be said for hosting a site, or hosting your c
by reledi 13y ago
This reminds me of reactions to the HN Dropbox announcement [1], "Just set up FTP, curlftpfs and SVN".
Same could be said for hosting a site, or hosting your code, or using EC2 instances, or buying precooked meals, and so on.
Sometimes people would rather have others deal with it and use their own time on other things.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- vinkelhake 13y agoI knew I was going to draw comments like yours. I didn't say that this service cannot be valuable to people, I just pointed out that you can get really close with simple means. If you're happy with the package that irccloud provides, then by all means go for it. I say this as a person who use many online services, both free and commercial. The dropbox comparison is a bad one because it takes way more effort to set it up -- without spending a ton of effort you won't get anywhere near what dropbox offers.