That’s because the sheep graze everywhere and eat sprouting saplings. The only trees are in areas fenced off from the sheep. I agree this is a bit depressing.
I'm a happy (non-German) mailbox.org customer. They are clearly committed to their core offerings and their pricing is fair.
I have previously also used Migadu, but I migrated to mailbox.org. Can't remember why exactly and looking at migadu.com again today, they seem to tick all the boxes for me when it comes to personal email. I remember they had a great UI in general, but in particular the settings UI was fantastic.
I used to be quite excited about Flattr. The ideology they stand for is what makes them exciting, so I don't want to judge them by their brand, but still I can't help but feel that their communication and product design is honestly terrible.
They communicated almost nothing for around 3 years, and now they're back to relaunch. I just don't feel very confident about their organization.
Completely threw me off when I got the email. Safari Books Online is really expensive, and I dislike seeing private entrepreneurs reinventing public libraries (and even selling it as an innovative concept).
It's an e10s (multiprocess) thing. Shame that you don't percieve the overall performance as improved, since that's something that e10s promises. But I know that the tab spinner stuff is something they're working on actively, hopefully it'll improve with time.
Interesting article! I'm a little skeptic to the final paragraph, though, specifically the notion that this research prompted the birth of stereotypes.
Stereotypes might not have existed in their modern form previously, but they're akin to the notion that people have an essence, assigned to them by nature. Platon's ideas about comparing an individual's essence to a metal is a good example (bronze people are good at this, iron people good at that). And I definitely think we'd fool ourselves thinking that the individual held a stronger position in society prior to the early 19th century...
I think they're really talking about scientific stereotypes.
It's this kind of thinking that starts to give rise to so-called scientific explanations of why certain races are "inferior". The average man concept lets you compare races and genders and all sorts in a way that can appear scientific - in method at least - whilst ignoring the fact that there are so many variables to account for in the human condition, that any result must be taken with a lot of skepticism.
But people in general, particularly around the time, were astounded by the leaps and bounds that science had been making. So anything "proven" in a scientific enough manner, must be true. No skepticism to be found.
There is! Or rather, right now, you can add an object to a single frame or to all frames, there's a menu just below the tool buttons letting you do that. I might add a "custom" option there as we'll, so that the user can specify an exact range of frames to apply the object to.
I agree with sleepychu. The interface was largely intuitive and laid out. The text at the top looks like a tab based interface and I too tried to click to go back to the edit step. Even having definitely seen the "cook" button (hot pink! yay!). Personally I'd buttonize (!) those texts top-center and add "cook" before share. You should probably consider changing it from "cook" to something more obvious - make, finish?
When I look right and left I see other elements of the interface off-screen, but again clicking here does nothing; seems like these should be active areas that move to the relevant "tabs".
It looks like you're probably going to add user accounts as a premium option? Seems like a possible monetisation. There's a company that turn gifs in to hologram gifts I think, might be a good tie-in, or they might license your editor.
When reddit get hold of this your server is going to explode with memes. I'd take a cue out of imgurs book and roll with that - add a top listing, hot now, etc. in form of thumbnails; consider allowing comments.
Lastly, I assumed that the giflr link would both share my gif and give a prominent remix option, but it didn't seem to do the later, I could clearly just start a new gif and insert the old one but that seems a bit clunky.
I know the state indicators up top (Add, Edit, Share) have caused some confusion when I've tested the app. Making them interactive is definitely an option I could look into.
"Cook" was meant as an informal description of what happens to the set of frames once that big button is clicked, abstracting that somewhat instead of making it the one big action might be an idea, especially as the app matures, the editing is going to mean more than the cooking.
I'm already thinking about how (or whether) to surface cooked GIF's, I want this to be able to be used as a platform for easy GIF sharing, where every GIF doesn't necessarily end up in the hands of the internet just because it lives on a server.
The remix option has struck me before as well, that might make Giflr able to tie into other services, make it like a general way to remix a GIF. I'll think on that one and see what I come up with!
