abashore

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by abashore 5mo ago
Has there been any indication that they may gate new versions or features behind more expensive plex pass subscriptions?
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Ask HN: Distributed Solution for Family Pictures?
1 points by abashore 3y ago|1 comments
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by abashore 3y ago
They certainly can (and probably should) charge for the api. The problems we see now are the communications surrounding it, the price and the timeline.
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by abashore 3y ago
A lot of those mods held polls in their communities and among their peers before going dark. I don't think the large subreddits are getting unilaterally shut down.
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by abashore 3y ago
Harm to the brand is hard to quantify. We can only assume they've done the calculus and decided freezing out 3rd party apps is worth the benefit. Knowing exactly what that benefit is, is conjecture. Best guess is that this is regarding
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by abashore 3y ago
They can be forcefully re-opened at any time. Based on the internal memo, they don't appear to be taking this seriously enough to warrant that kind of action.
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by abashore 4y ago
Alamo Drafthouse offers a lot of this.
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by abashore 4y ago
Offtopic: is there an on-prem alternative for Discord? Is there not a demand for SSO enabled, self hosted, open source communications app with persistent voice chat channels with pushtotalk?
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Ask HN: HN What are some good alternatives to Gmail?
3 points by abashore 5y ago|4 comments
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by abashore 9y ago
He said he spent around $1000 on failures and tools. If he had done it perfectly the first time it would've cost him around $300.