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I had it for more than 5 years before abandoning it. I still got ads. I’d complain and YouTube would tell me it was a rare bug, or my browser, or the phase of the moon. They’d promise it’d never happen again and it still kept happening. I suspect it was a test to see what they could get away with.

Others in the comments have similar stories.

You occasionally still get ads, even with premium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

GenX. I used IRC back in the early 90s, but by the mid-90s I’d moved on. Probably to ICQ. I can’t recall.

Then, in the mid-noughties my millennial work colleagues were going crazy for Mirc. I was shocked to discover it was just IRC with a pretty face but all the same issues that caused me to leave it 10 years before.

And it’s still going. Although, no longer flavour of the month.

Ignoring the missing features, is stoat a better experience for non-techies coming from discord?

I showed my wife the before and after of my home pages. She said, “They’re the same.”

Happy.

I just switched to Octopi. For me, it’s an almost perfect replacement. Plus it’s a local developer.

They could have bought second life a hundred times over and at least had something that worked (albeit poorly).

I agree. I looked at tailwind and couldn’t believe it was so popular. It defeats the entire purpose of CSS, and returns web dev back to the early 90s. Just stupid.