Steam.
It enshittified in reverse. Started out shit, and is now numero uno. It keeps getting better, too.
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Even so, I only buy games now if I can boot them without steam, because if I've learned anything at all, its that every. EVERY live service goes to shit eventually.
- Bandcamp
- Wikipedia
- Discogs
- archive.org
- Soulseek
Archive.org the real MVPs
An android app called OurGroceries. It's a simple grocery list app that syncronises between my wife and I. I've been using it since smartphones became common. I paid for the add free option once about 15 years ago. Its slowly gotten a little bit better over the years with minor UI and feature improvments.
Me too! It's simple, easy, all it needs to be.
nice try Bezos
Bar beer glasses. The ones I've stolen most recently are just as indestructible as the ones I stole 10 years ago.
10/10 never change!
dishes as a service
- ListenBrainz
- NameCheap
- HomeAssistant
- Jellyfin
- Ubuntu
- Nextcloud
- Ryobi
Those are the ones I’ve been using for more than 2 years and am generally still happy with. Shorter list than I expected, but I have been moving away from a lot of things recently.
I feel like opensource projects aren't really in the spirit of the question. They certainly haven't enshitified, but they're not really "services".
Namecheap is in a highly competitive market.
Ryobi retails physical products, so not really a service.
And ryobi is shit for anything other than very occasional, light domestic work
No serious tradesman will touch it
It applies to physical goods too. Some companies out there will build a reputation of making high quality products for their price, then coast off that reputation while dropping quality and cutting costs.
If thats the case, then ryobi enshitified 30 years ago.
I was of a similar opinion 15 years ago. Bought into the ecosystem through Hobson's choice. I needed a flood light in a hurry late at night, and a Ryobi 18v floodlight was the only one available. Since at the time I hadn't really bought into any platform and that floodlight and the batteries for it cost me so much, I started buying more of their tools and equipment as needed. Over the years, I've seen the kit they offer go from, honestly, a bit knaf to on par with the power tools my grandfather and uncle would buy before they died (mainly Dewalt and Makita).
Only once have I been disappointed with a Ryobi battery tool. A dust buster style hand vacuum that was just not fit for purpose. Everything else has served me well.
My current opinion is, so long as you stay away from their really low end stuff, like what they put in the combo kits, Ryobi, over all, makes decent, well built, reliable kit suitable for a homeowner or DIYer, though I wouldn't look down on a tradesman who pulled Ryobi out of their box. Some of their kit has gotten damned good.
If my house burned down today, while I would probably go with Ego for my yard tools (more repairable, better parts availability), I would probably buy back into Ryobi for everything else.
hmmm i got a domain cheap for first year on namecheap, but it goes up to 20$ for year two. But if i move my domain to Cloudflare, yearly renewals are 10$, which they say is 'at cost'. Is namecheap better than it seemed? Or are you paying more yearly after the first year than if you migrate them to cloudflare?
Cloudflare’s popularity with everyone kinda concerns me, so I’ve always avoided it. Plus I don’t do anything currently that requires their capabilities.
As for namecheap, they haven’t caused me any drama in the last 10 years. The one time I needed their customer support, they solved my problem quickly. I think I’m paying $15/year for each of my domains, plus an additional $60 for email services. There might be cheaper options, but I like drama free.
Probably depends on the domain name. Lots of registrars up the price after the first year. Been using NameCheap for a decade or so, no issues, no large price hikes, excellent tech support.
- FastMail
- Jump Desktop (RDP client app)
- Threema
- UniFi Network (OS for Ubiquiti UDM)
- DreamHost
- Discogs
- Soundiiz
trello.com, which I have been using for over 10 years, was unchangingly awesome for most of that time. Then Atlassian bought them and started chipping away at it and in the last 6 months it's gone to shit really badly. Can't even drag and drop cards between columns reliably, anymore.
So for me there are no services left that haven't enshitified.
perchance.org
tho thats sort of cheating since its run by one person with ideals that, instead of being out for profit, has no way to donate no matter how many times people try to, with their one monetary thing being ads on pages for nonlogged in users using ai generation to recoup some of, and not fully, their losses running the servers. Since im logged in, which is free, i never see those ads.
so, for me, its just 'a place', disconnected from the greedy capitalist crap all around us that tries to charge wherever it can. Because it's run by one person, it grows slowly, but it does. So that's the one internet place I've been for years that is the opposite of 'enshitification' and, instead, it grows better constantly, tho sometimes slowly.
The one other that comes to mind is sh.itjust.works
i have been here a year+ and have noticed no enshittification.
edit: i think alot of it has to do with whether the devs are doing it for ideals or for profit.
Backblaze. Best value online backup since forever. Minimal price increases over time, unlimited backup. Only left recently due to lack of Linux client.
I got a B2 account for my homelab backup. For a long time I was paying $0.52 about twice a year. Now after getting up to around 300gb it's about $1.50 a month.
Cheers, yeah I had looked at that but it would blow out the costs for me vs the cost of personal/unlimited. I'm not a data hoarder in the usual sense but have several TB of personal data - photos, videos etc.
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