46 karma · joined October 14, 2011
But then they started butchering it more and more and now it's almost completely unusable.
I've been a paying customer since 2009 and I'm thinking of cancelling, I don't use it any more because it's just a mess.
For me it's the easily clickable URLs. Copying and pasting URLs in other CLI-environments on Windows is cumbersome at best.
Eh, no. I'm sure they try but more often than not my YouTube is streaming from Amsterdam according to http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping, I live in Stockholm and have a 250 MBit connection. So instead of blazing fast speeds I get buffering like I'm on a modem.
I've found no way of reporting this issue, my ISP did not know either. I worked around the issue myself with hundreds of lines like this "74.125.163.38 r1---sn-5hn7ym76.googlevideo.com r1.sn-5hn7ym76.googlevideo.com" in my router hosts file. This finally made videos buffer pretty much instantly.
To actually scan the entirety of ipv6 address space in under 6 minutes you would need to send 1 billion billion billion billion packets a second [2], or 100 octillion times faster than 10 million packets a second. [3]
[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E128%2F10%5E7+second...
Clicking the card only takes me to Google Maps where I get tons of irrelevant suggestions. Not helpful.
I do love the idea though. I'm hoping it will improve!
In an effort to "focus on the content" everything else have taken a back seat, to hell with useability and a visually pleasing experience.
In any case, you can not compare Spotify's subscription model to direct sales, it is just not the same thing.