The juxtaposition of the "Record Your Life. Store it Forever." slogan with the now-trendy-tomorrow-not website makes me cringe.
The word "Forever" is loaded with so much meaning.
The cursive font, the .me URL, the tired-ass layout with those obligatory three boxes at the bottom... all of these things reflect aesthetic sensibilities that may as well belong to fruitflies.
Maybe this app will be great and genuinely add meaning to people's lives but it makes me want to buy a notebook, some picture frames and a sturdy old chest that I can bury underground.
I totally understand that and it lines up with what I thought when I first saw the story in the front page.
I think a good way to mitigate that fear is for this guys to open source the server side of this app, allow people to easily and securely transfer their data out and expose a setting in the app to change the server it uses.
The word "Forever" is loaded with so much meaning.
The cursive font, the .me URL, the tired-ass layout with those obligatory three boxes at the bottom... all of these things reflect aesthetic sensibilities that may as well belong to fruitflies.
Maybe this app will be great and genuinely add meaning to people's lives but it makes me want to buy a notebook, some picture frames and a sturdy old chest that I can bury underground.