The first time I registered to Mastodon it autocapitalized my user name on the web form. Thus I ended up with a capitalized name.
I didn’t like that as all my Social handles are lower case, thus deleted the account and registered again only to be alerted that the name was taken.
So basically I couldn’t change it to lowercase on their interface, but when deleted I could not register it again.
And that in a nutshell is my experience with everything Mastodon :)
After years the issue is still open and makes the first impression of a lot of users pretty bad.
I used to use Apple Music but when my Credit Card expired I missed two months payment and Apple happily deleted all of my playlists and library. I don’t think they realise how bad this is, but I will never use it or subscribe ever again.
I had to pause my subscription for a few months for personal reasons and my collection is gone too.
This is crazy.
Not sure how they expect anyone to keep using their service with such attitude.
Perhaps it is a lock-in strategy: don’t leave or you lose months or even years of your music habits.
At the same time, both Spotify and YouTube Music keep all the data to this day.
One might argue that they free plans, so they have to keep it. And I would say “I don’t care”. If I can’t rely on your service to keep a list of songs - I am not using it.
Damn, they could utilize my iCloud account. Or allow me to export a text file with that data, so I could import it back later. But no. No money - you are screwed.
I don't understand why AM doesn't use iCloud to store playlists. You have the storage anyway and a good chunk of people pay for an additional increase too.
You missed two months of payment and you are angry that a company closed the account? Boy do I have to tell you a story about what you can lose by not paying your AWS bill for two months… I am curious how you handle customers that do not pay and continue to not pay instead of just ending their subscription.
AWS has to pay a relatively big money for keeping user data. It is understandable why they would want to delete it.
Playlists are basically zero cost to store. You would spend more $ on delete processing than keeping them around for eternity. So it's just not well thought use-case, implemented without attempt to view the whole picture.
In many places I worked we would keep a user's history on the app for a long while in case they decided to resubscribe. It doesn't cost much to have a 6-12 months leeway before complete deletion.
Erasing a music app data after just a couple of months is idiotic, even more for a company with such deep pockets like Apple.
What do you lose if you don’t pay to AWS for two months?
My account is still there. I can still use it. I am pretty sure it has some historic data there as well. Probably my old lambdas are still laying around.
Before Three.js there was Papervision3D for Flash written in ActionScript. While it was not a direct port I imagine a lot of ideas were already established and pretty straightforward to implement in Javascript. Happy to see Three.js going strong.
I moved my family plan from Spotify because they still don’t have an easy to use music locker solution. As an amateur producer I love to have my unreleased music always available. I was already a premium Youtube subscriber to get rid of ads and Youtube music was included. While the UI is not great I can appreciate that it can play and download music from Youtube as well that is not otherwise available on any of the other streaming services.
The way Spotify treats third party developers (including myself) with all the unfixed issues being broken for years was just the last nail in the coffin.
I could not disagree more, SwiftUI is a black box that is great when it works but is infuriatingly incomplete to this day. I filed dozens of radars in the past year. I’ve worked on app of the year type applications and they use zero SwiftUI for a reason.
I’m on the opinion of boycotting visionOS as a protest on their link tax decisions, green bubble shenanigans and other non competitive moves.
The future should be innovative and inclusive with fair competition and equal opportunity.
Enough is enough.
I was always curious what was going on there. I definitely have a negative impression of them already based on their recurring job ads for the elusive 3rd engineer.
After the Instagram subscription debacle, no thanks.
There’s no reason to trust Meta with any of your data, they have to sort out their privacy policies first.
Also not fantastic, how Apple handles multiple devices. I forgot how they call it, but registering new devices is a pain, especially if you have multiple Macbooks, iPads, iPhone, there’s an edge case where you have to wait 90 days before it starts streaming to your brand new iPhone.
You better reach out to their support, where they never acknowledge the issue but always fix it in 5 minutes.
And that in a nutshell is my experience with everything Mastodon :)
After years the issue is still open and makes the first impression of a lot of users pretty bad.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20487
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