So a few reasons come to mind. Firstly, these projects usually do more than one HN posts. And by the time they have thousands of users, they have already done quite a few HN posts by then. Additionally, if you follow a particular scene (JS in this case) then you can hear about these projects quite a lot on tech Twitter. Adonis was being actively discussed a few days ago after Theo posted a video about why there is no Rails alternative in JS-land. I personally remember hearing about Adonis when I searched for a Rails alternative in JS a long time ago.

And lastly, this project specifically has been in the making for a good number of years now. So it makes sense that there are quite a few people out there using it.

I am assuming it would completely prevent ads (so no need to figure out how to filter/block them) as the name of this field suggests that it might be used by YouTube to figure out if someone has a premium subscription or not. Toggling this field would not have led the author to the later protobuf rabbit hole as there would have been no need for it.

From personal experience, we programmers/hackers sometimes like to make things more complicated than they need to be just for the fun of it (and learning experience too!).

I highly doubt that. it is still only a client-side parameter. the server will still know whether you have paid or not

it's a bit like inspecting source on a banking website, altering the balance html, then expecting the displayed value to reflect actual account funds

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I was curious about the same thing. But turns out you can download (export) the video without paying anything for now. Maybe it will become paid in the future?

Free for now! But we're hoping to build a small side business out of this, so we'll probably charge for say, over 10m videos, higher fidelity videos, hosting lots of videos, etc.

Anything in that list feel unfair? Anything you'd add?

It's not at all unfair.

But I'd never use the service. Still is suspect HN isn't your target audience anyways.

You're probably right. Can I ask why you'd never use it? What if you could download & delete the cloud recording with one button?

I'd considered them givens under GDPR!

I didn't feel as if it was a ripoff. It didn't even register with me that you were referring to Vimeo until I read the comments. Slightly similar font with a different name altogether shouldn't count as ripoff in my opinion :)

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When starting out with programming, most of the time you don't get to learn about the though process behind a project implementation . I recently did a project and decided to do a write-up detailing the whole thought process and how I went from point zero to a finished project. I think there is a shortage of similar articles so I am sharing it here in case it helps others :)

Cool - this is a nice simple project! Here's some feedback. Lyrics need to come up on screen in anticipation of the music. That is, they need to be there before the line starts. Currently, in your display, when a stanza starts the lyrics pop up suddenly simultaneous with the lyric being sung. This isn't enough time for someone who isn't completely familiar with the lyrics.

PiP in Firefox is the killer feature for me.

Yes! I was wondering which app it is asking me to preview. These are the times when I wish HackerNews allowed OPs to edit post titles after submission.

Agreed. In this case the modified title was extra hard to parse because "Tips" is also an iOS app.

It isn't even fixed in the original blog post.

I work at Microsoft and yup we use Teams internally.

Wouldn't it be in Microsoft's interest to develop a much better app than Teams just for internal use?

Yes, it’s mind boggling. Complaining about Teams is a daily ritual. We all hate it, and we don’t understand why we can’t have something better.

Unfortunately the source code is unavailable as well as the APIs, otherwise many of us would have already re-skinned it.

But we don’t use the chat as much as you would in slack, because it’s totally broken. We mostly just take lots of videos calls and share notes with an internal pastebin/gist tool.

It'd be in Microsoft's interest to make the product they sell good enough for their internal use rather than make a second product and sell an even less improved Teams. Dogfooding at its most basic. The exception would be if they were planning on changing direction with what they offered customers, in which case it doesn't make sense to dogfood the existing product anymore.

thanks confirming,

saw the discussion in another thread for softwares used in medical, not easy to use, one reason someone mentioned is that the purchaser does not use it much, the real users(doctors/nurses)' voice are probably not heard enough.

wondered about some ux inconveniences in teams, if MS use it internally, should have improved it... :-)

It is not like they are not working on improving things. I will even go as far that getting control of electron was a big motivating behind purchasing GitHub. Moving to Chromium based browser if also part of the plans to get access to and being able to improve Teams. Teams is such a central piece of software to Microsoft and many other Microsoft products and services evolves around teams but to replace the Electron part of teams with something better is apparently not an easy task. Teams for private people, that ships with Windows 11, does not use Electron (uses a webview instead) is part of this mission. I haven't used it as I also hate Teams and have zero desire to use anything teams outside of work, but from what I understand it should be much more performant and useless resources than the Teams for Work Electron app.

slack is built with electron, cannot blame electron much.

probably not fair to compare Teams and slack, as you said, MS has more things to consider for Teams than slack... while seems even some minor things, it is kind of annoying, can be easily fixed, but stay like that for long time... thinking if the Teams product team folks use the product and care, they should have fixed/improved...

seems this is common for MS products, powerful, many functions, but do not care enough for UX..., and one of things makes it different to apple :-)

I know there is a paid app on Playstore that apparently works. Don’t remember the name. Will have to look it up. I came across it during my research. But there is also this on GitHub: https://github.com/residentsummer/watoi

Give it a try and see how it goes?

This is Android to IOS i was think of IOS to Android. Btw i was wondering why do the paid apps charge so much for this transfer. But thanks to you now i know this stuff is complicated and you have done an amazing work decoding it. What if now the next post about how to import this to Android? Then a program which is open source project for this purpose? But Only if you have time!