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Obviously it doesn't strike you as odd as an American.

I'd say, .com is just the default. If you go location/topic specific, you go with another TLD.

To the 130 million (domainnamestat.com) domains, registered in the US, there are like 500 million domains, registered somewhere else. I couldn't find any numbers for how many of those are .com and how many aren't, but you cannot just ignore those. Just because most domains registered in the US are .com domains, doesn't make .com a US domain. That's a really egocentric point of view.

Then you didn't try a good one, yet. I can say the same about a steak that's cooked "wrong" or a "burger" where nobody ever knows what actually is in there because for all you know it can be hundreds of dead animals in a single burger patty.

It tastes terrible, if you cannot cook. That is true for every single meal.

This reminds me of an "Online HTML Minifier" website that analyzed the text and included affiliate links for random words within the text.

And they operated for years, when someone noticed links on their own website, they haven't added themselves and tried to figure out, how it happened, because nobody else had access to the website.

(Will update with a link, if I find it.)

I mean, the magic link could be an addition to the "forgot password" screen, then? As in "reset password or login via magic link"?

Instead of treating a document as one, every part of the document is a separate block. Every paragraph can be a block, every table is a block, every image can be a block. This makes referencing to specific information very easy, as every block can be referenced, displayed somewhere else, a.s.o.

That also means higher risk of failure, doesn't it? If just one of the N people isn't able to attend for whatever reason, your stuff is gone for good. If I give the key to my spouse, they can just use it. If I give it to 5 people, chance, one of those is unreachable when I'm gone, is 5 times as high.

But it's extremely little additional work, though.

The application is already able to find articles around a given address. The only thing that would be changed, is that you enter the address by hand instead of letting the browser locate you. This can be easily done in a day

I'd only wish, blocking and muting would be as easy as it is with twitter. Seeing crap live streams on your For You Page and having to find your way onto their profile page and it's like 8 clicks before you are back on your FYP.

So, every time a company increases prices, it "kills" something? By that logic, every company kills nearly everything, every time.

Sure, if a specific feature of Classic Google Sites was used and is now different or was not merged to the New Google Sites, it's a matter of opinion.

But that's what I mean. I cannot account for all of the services you mentioned, but there is still Google Sites, there is still Google Workspace as the G Suite successor, many of the My Maps features were just moved to Google Maps. The hardware line of phones is now Pixel instead of Nexus. Obviously it evolved from Nexus and there is stuff from Nexus that didn't make it to Pixel. But if this is what we're talking about, every single tech company on the planet is "killing" stuff every time they release a new version of soft- or hardware.

Those are just examples off the top of my head. There are things that Google "killed" & I loved Google+, I used the URL shortener regularly, and the end of Google Reader was a tragedy (probably the one Google product I personally miss), but this huge list isn't a very fair depiction, IMHO.

Oh man, this comments...

The number of products, Google actually "killed" and not just rename, merge into another product, or develop further under a new name, is quite low. And frankly, most people, complaining about product lifetime, probably never even used any of those products at all.

Yes, killedbygoogle.com is fun, but come on...

Tailwind CSS v3.0 5 years ago

It was "popular", because there was no good option to do stuff. Now there are plenty options. Tables are for tabular content. Using it anywhere else is a spit in the face of accessibility.