I got an invite to join last year and signed up to test it out.
Felt like there was a lot less people and a lot less content on it than Mastadon.
Unless the users/content now really starts to take off, there's not enough on there to make it interesting.
Some forums are still reasonably active. I use Whirlpool fairly regularly. Mostly tech related, but has lots of other sections too.
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/
If you search around you can find others.
Yeah, it seems to work now. Didn't used to work reliably a few years ago. Now, text within any document I save seems to come up in search shortly afterwards.
It's things like this that make me glad that my email service defaults to not loading any images/links/html. There's a small button at the top to load them if I want.
Yes, I remember that! I recall thinking, imagine how good this will get in the future. Sadly it didn't.
Yes, they are less prevalent due to Reddit and other social media sucking up a lot of the users.
They are still around though. One Australian forum that I’ve been on for years which is still very active is Whirlpool. Started as a tech forum and expanded. It’s very useful as source of info as it’s been around over 20 years and a lot of questions have been asked and answered there.
Nice! Took me to a site full of movie themes in midi format👌🏻
I thought Mass Effect had a great soundtrack that really fit the game perfectly. Moody in parts and rousing in others.
Connect is awesome. The fact that it is only a month old and that good is honestly mind blowing and it’s totally free with no premium options or ads. I have really enjoyed using it up until now.
I’m a previous Sync for Reddit user though and I do love the app. The customisation options are insane. I can literally make it look and act exactly how I want, even down to things like specifying download locations for pictures, whether they go into subfolders by community, whether pictures show up as media files in your gallery or are hidden, the spacing between comment lines, etc… It’s also customisable by account if you have multiple accounts, so all of this can be different or the same for each account.
So once you spend some time setting it up, it almost feels like you’ve designed your own interface/app.
It’s hard to beat.
I got sick of subscriptions, so I got Affinity Photo 2 for iPad as it was a reasonably priced one time purchase.
I cannot recommend it highly enough. I made a post about it here:
Most things I do on it can be done as well or better elsewhere.
However, I really like Photo editing on my iPad Pro using the Apple pencil.
It’s now my preferred platform for that.
I’m spending way more time!
I didn’t really like the community in Reddit that much. I used it more like a news feed. So I never read ‘all’, I just read my subs for a few minutes here and there, but I didn’t post and comment much.
Since coming here I post and comment a lot more. There seems to be more proper discussion here, despite being much smaller and quieter.
I have been with idrive since 2009. At the time they were the only ones that allowed backups of network attached storage on their cheaper personal plans. Everyone else saw that as an “enterprise” feature which required a business plan. Which was bullsh*t, because lots of home NAS devices were being sold.
Anyway, I haven’t done a recent comparison of services, but I remain happy with idrive.
Thesedays I no longer backup on a computer with a mapped drive, but directly from my NAS which runs the idrive software.
I had a catastrophic dual drive failure a few years ago, one failed and another failed during the raid rebuild! I was able to restore about 1tb of data and didn’t lose anything important.
They also offer backup and restore by shipping a drive to you if you want to avoid the huge initial backup or a total restore, but I haven’t used that feature.
They do also have a mobile app, but last time I tried it, it wasn’t great.
Yeah, I’m only keeping it because of the grandfathered deal. If they scrap that I’ll just cancel and save the money. Better in my pocket than Google’s!
Yes, Connect For Lemmy had this.
Damn, that did a disturbingly good job of sounding like the real deal 😮
Thanks!
Yeah, that’s what I use for close to 100% of my payments since about 2020.
I guess losing your phone or running out of battery are the limitations with that. Not often a problem admittedly.
Agreed, it's so good.