I think you’re underestimating the market and features Discord could bring to gaming companies, eg identity management, cross games challenges, and more
> the irony of Microsoft saying this is nearly too much
Where is Microsoft saying that?
Problems with monoculture: lack of innovation, a single agenda being pushed forward, anti-competitive behavior. Google doesn’t want technology X? X is dead. Google thinks Ad platform Y is bad? Y is dead. etc
Other than some Google sites optimized for Chrome (which reminds of sites working only in IE...), Firefox on MacOS works pretty well, better than Chrome on average.
Safari on MacOS is probably the winner, because Apple invests a lot on battery saving and performance of its sw.
If understand your scenario, you can do that with FF, if you don't force a url to be always opened in one profile. For instance you can have sites hard-linked to specific profiles (e.g. social networks) and others that are not, so they stay in the current session (e.g. paypal, which otherwise is broken by the multi account feature).
sure Apple is expensive, but I think you're leaving out important details, like screen resolution, touchpad, keyboard (though that's been good for ages), OS improvements, power consumption, bluetooth and wifi, etc.
I'd expect proxies, CDNs, VPNs to become a common setup, although we'd have to trust these service providers not to track our traffic. TOR might be a better option for privacy, doubtful if that will ever succeed on large scale though.
unless I misunderstand your web site implementation, you might want to fix the web site to respect also the user choice about storing cookies ;-)
I clicked "Deny" when asked to accept cookies (and analytics), but the cookie stored on my machine says {"cookie":true,"analytics":false}
The positive experience of Microsoft with OSS hasn't yet translated in a positive experience with Windows.
Windows is still a closed platform, with several issues, like wasting disk space, degrading performance over months, frequent reboots interrupting work in progress and forcing software to be reopened, losing state, too much information on the screen, UI inconsistencies e.g. control panel and 3 different consoles (PowerShell, MSDOS, Bash), forced UI patterns, etc.
I disagree with most of your answer, eg most crawlers discard old data in favor of the latest snapshot, but thanks for taking the time to provide your PoV and inviting to a discussion.
Even if some piece of data remains around, one should be in control of his/her contributions and be allowed to delete, that’s far from irrelevant or misleading.
The annoying first-time experience can be disabled by putting some files in the new profile. i.e. instead of creating a new empty profile every time, clone one that is already initialized.
looking forward to see those changes, particularly on the sidebar, glad to see development is ongoing :-)
About keeping state, I've always wondered if it would be possible to store state via git commits, e.g. via a special branch ".state/reviewable.io" or even another repo - is that doable, assuming the browser would use my identity to post status updates?
thanks for reminding me about this, I tried it a while back but eventually abandoned it, because of complex UI (lack of file tree on the side; the file matrix at the top doesn't make it easier to keep status; many buttons don't have a onmouseover tip so it's not clear what they, e.g. if the cause some state change; UI very different from GitHub leading to extra friction with team members) and the noise it generates in GitHub, for users who uses just GitHub
an extension I'd welcome for GitHub code reviews, is one tracking the review progress, e.g. allowing to flag on/off which files have been reviewed and which not
That’s very common with badly designed anomaly detection systems. Customer support say the system has detected something wrong in the customer behavior and ask, often order, to stop or fix whatever they’re doing. Neither customers nor support are able to intervene