The big thing about imgur is the community. Consider the front page of imgur. I think that's the cool thing about the idea.

You usually go to Soundcloud because you're linked there, it's not something that easily builds its own culture.

Soundcloud has a nice culture. I go there both to discover music and to listen to music I've liked. It's different than imgur but I think that partly is just due to the fact that it takes anywhere from 3 minutes to an hour to experience each 'piece' compared to an image which you can digest in a few seconds and flip through a bunch when you need to burn a minute or two.

You bring up an interesting point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7614790

debatable. soundcloud has community as well, you just might not have gotten into it yet if you simply get linked or listen to stuff from the embedded player.

The wiggling email fields are the most obnoxious things I've seen in recent history.

Thank god that someone else feels the same. It's absolutely the worst thing I have seen in modern history.

Even if I had wanted to subscribe before, the wiggling put a stop to it.

It's like a <blink> tag became sentient.

I don't want to be "that guy," but I had to stop reading in the middle.

i hear you! working on changing it as we speak. :)

i hear you - working on changing it as we speak! :)

Original title is better. I'm gonna call the cops.

I can't help but be reminded of John Kilduff from Let's Paint TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r72zqjDNW2M

Native? This is a guide to installing under wine.

Edit: oh duh. Completely skipped over that since I remember this page saying nothing of the sort.

The native part is in the first subsection:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux#N...

The boilerplate (include the shebang) counts towards your score, so just ditch it and start anew.

Not to mention, a foolhardy challenge to break it.

If that's the cost of friendship, consider it paid.

All joking aside, I agree with the message. I almost signed up for app.net today, but didn't (after finally noticing the charge aspect (not gonna lie, didn't really look into it)) because it is NOT going to overthrow anything, let alone Twitter.

The warm sentiments of no ads is nice, but end-users don't give a shit. $50 is MONEY, free--adversely--isn't.

I'll be happy if people can prosper from app.net, but I don't see much happening there that didn't happen at google+.

I would never pay for something like that, I barely see a use for ad-supported social networks, but those that pay will feel a psychological pressure to make use of their investment, it will also create a feeling of privilege; whereas something like Google+ is seen as free, open and less valued, and therefore needs to vie for the attention.

We whine and bitch about not having control of our data, about some corp having central authority over everything and yet we decide to ignore status.net and pay $50/year to something that doesn't even exist yet. Go figure.

It's almost as if there is more than one person involved in these actions!

Come at me, McDonalds!

I'm assuming this is a reference to this: http://eyetap.blogspot.ca/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdona...