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Important to remember: 30% is an issue, but unilateral control to ban, censor, and "pull" entire businesses offline on a whim is even more scary and dangerous.


+1 for easy compiled binary in single file for all platforms. Bonus: Ensure support for CEF / PyWebView / WebGL on all platforms with secure IPC style bridge to the Python logic. Ultimate Combo: Smooth animated visual UI with secure connection to fun intuitive Python data services layer, all in one convenient compiled binary. ( Double bonus: Cython style transpilation step to protect source from tampering )


-> Try to visit site: Error: Sorry! It seems there was an error preparing your experiment. Please try reloading the page in a few minutes. -> Try to send feedback: Form with high barrier required fields rapidly drains any enthusiasm to send feedback.


At least there's no captcha, no requirement to register, and it appears to work (I've reported the same issue). I'd prefer a working email address, but there are worse feedback forms around.


Wow. Good catch. So if this wasn't anticipated or disclosed to their authoring tool customers, would it be considered breach of service and qualify for a refund?


This "7th reason" is indeed correct. Flash player enabled browsers with many features (mesh networking, hardware 3D, easy file system, tunable font antialiasing) which were subsequently stripped from browsers and forced into the paywalled garden.


I'm not familiar with Flash's "mesh networking" (do you mean RTFMP, which hardly anyone used?), but "hardware 3D", "easy file system" and "tunable font antialiasing" are all available in HTML -- via WebGL, the File API, and the "font-smooth" and "text-rendering" CSS properties, respectively.


Yes openRTMFP and other p2p variants. And yes, you are correct, but we were talking 2006. Browsers relied on plugins for many of those capabilities.


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