I'm still working on my passion project: https://nextflick.tv

I'm in the process of refining the filters determining which movies will be included. And at the same time I am trying to acquire news users, which is going quite well. Slow and steady increase, I am currently sitting at around 100 visitors per day.

I love that :)

Our design philosophy is to sync as much as we can back to the OS, so that it can be picked up by other apps.

Let me take a note though and look into a manual export solution!

Yeah I think it's worth thinking through how to make the data easy to be portable

I know that sounds counterintuitive, and that data lock in is usually valuable, but I think it's generally a liability and history seems to show that building great services around mostly open components is the best way to build software for longevity and happiness.

If you can improve on or coopt an open contact format, that is third party accessible, and then you build the best interface and services around that, then you might have something important and lasting here!

Thanks

You are absolutely right in that we need to strike the right balance between convenience and value. We discuss this a lot internally and will certainly need a couple iterations before we find the sweet spot.

Thank you for your suggestion! I've taken note of it and we will discuss :)

We'll check it out. Thank you!

Time to learn German then ;-) Good find! Let us get this fixed.

I'm German, that's why I was spooked! I'm not in Germany and nothing on my system should be set to German so I was worried you might be applying some sort of mind-reading analytics tech.

Even the order of entries in the Accept-Language header, as per browser settings? That's usually the source of half the problems I have with websites suddenly defaulting to an unexpected language.

(The other half is websites suddenly displaying in Norwegian; it started after I was in Oslo for a few days and, while there, had to re-activate Skype from the website. Even a decade and two jobs later, on completely unrelated computers, some websites will suddenly display in Norwegian, for reasons completely unknown.)

Nope, I suspected something there too but it turns out I only have en-GB there.

No need to worry then, it's merely a bug :)

Interesting... obviously not how it should be. Can you share the browser (and version) you are using?

Firefox 117 with adblock and noscript (nothing allowed).

Again, this is much preferable over the site not loading. I am not that familiar with web development but it looks like something that isnt initialized correctly (likely set afterwards in js?). Its really not worth putting in the effort to try to debug it if its not obvious.

Its pretty clear that its a side effect of the blockers so you shouldnt be worried about bad impressions. I took it as a very good sign that the page just loaded as is anyway, especially given that you are working with quite sensitive information. Anyone with a similar setup will likely take it the same way as they are used to sites not working.

This way i was able to look at it, which i wouldnt have if the site required any additional scripts. That should count as a win and a job well done.

We'll check it out. Thank you!

Interesting! We haven't thought of it so far but shouldn't be too much of an effort to port to the web, given that we use Flutter.

Could you elaborate the particular reasons as to why you'd prefer a web app? (Would a desktop app be relevant as well?)

Screen real estate, ease of linking, etc.

No, I don't want a desktop app. For one, I use all three os platforms regularly and it's just annoying to think about getting it on each.