[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you sti...
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Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still like to use
today?
Hi HN, I asked a similar question a couple of days ago, but for
some reason it didn't manage to get to 'Ask HN'. However, before it
sunk into oblivion, I got some really interesting comments [1]. So
I'd like to give my tiny research one last chance. ;-) So the
question is: Which app or tool (if any!) that is no longer
developed or supported -- or perhaps so far from mainstream that
it's practically dead -- you used to use a lot, like a lot and now
miss a lot? Can be pro or personal. Feel free to share more than
one, if you like. Thanks for any comment. :-) [1]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425990
Author : leszekzawadzki
Score : 20 points
Date : 2022-05-26 19:37 UTC (3 hours ago)
| brundolf wrote:
| Both are still technically available but on life-support:
|
| Heroku- see ample discussions from recent weeks on HN
|
| SourceTree- last time I tried it a year or so ago it was in a
| sorry state. Most problematically: it had runaway CPU usage on
| macOS. Had to kill the whole app whenever it was idle or the fans
| would go nuts. Eventually I gave up; the bug had been there for a
| long time and they showed no interest in fixing it.
| noloblo wrote:
| +1 sourcetree
| lomex2000 wrote:
| I'm still using SourceTree on a daily basis. No issues for me.
| Really surprised why it got mentioned here a couple of times.
| pskinner wrote:
| Comic chat
| ComradePhil wrote:
| Ava Find - It was a Windows-only file indexing and search
| software. You could find any files instantly by name and pattern
| matching. It also had a window with recently changed files which
| it actively monitored to update indexes.
|
| These days, Windows has good file indexing out of the box... but
| I still miss the "recently changed files" pane.
| buescher wrote:
| I don't have much use for such a thing anymore, and I don't know
| what people use instead of Spyglass/Fortner Transform anymore,
| but it was really nice in its era.
| ffhhj wrote:
| Flash
| boyka wrote:
| Google Reader
| RattlesnakeJake wrote:
| Gotta' be one of the various Palm OS devices I used to carry. The
| OS and its apps were so simple, fast, and graceful. And it came
| from the era when devices tried to differentiate in weird and
| creative ways (My favorite: The CLIE NR70 and its successors).
| mikewarot wrote:
| Picassa, the offline photo management tool with pretty good face
| recognition
|
| Google Reader - RSS reader via the web
|
| FTP - the protocol - why can't I download files from gnu's FTP
| site in Chrome?
|
| Flash - if they just sandboxed it, and allowed no local file
| access, it would be ok.
|
| Delicio.us - the social bookmark service
|
| Edwin - Turbo Power Software - a nice macro recording text editor
| for DOS
|
| Microsoft Office 2000 Professional, with Access
|
| Visual Basic 6.0
| RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
| Visual Basic 6.0
|
| In the 20+ years since it came out, I still haven't found an
| easier and more productive way to create a CRUD app, or to
| quickly put together a simple GUI.
| mikewarot wrote:
| Lazarus, based on Free Pascal, is close to that easy. The
| documentation isn't as good. It is cross platform, which is a
| big plus.
| Shadonototra wrote:
| Why do you care?
|
| Do you want to buy/remake it and seek VC funding and exit before
| getting customers?
|
| Asking for a friend!
| copperx wrote:
| SawStudio. A DAW written in x86 assembly with 64 bit integer
| computations throughout and excellent but non-standard UX. It's
| not dead, but the community using it seems smaller everyday. It's
| an impressive technical achievement. Practically bug-free (the
| only bugs that I ever encountered were due to external plugins).
| kactus wrote:
| Opera 12, with its insanely fast Presto engine and tab grouping
| that Chromium-based browsers only recently emulated.
|
| Yes, I know about Vivaldi, but it's just not the same.
| nickmyersdt wrote:
| Microsoft Money.
|
| Whilst other products do similar things in terms of tracking
| accounts, I miss the forecast graph that would model how your
| money would perform over time.
|
| Google Reader. I can't stand video or audio, and strongly prefer
| written materials so email subscriptions and RSS are how I keept
| up.
| DanitaBaires wrote:
| I use kMyMoney as a replacement, it's not exactly the same but
| it gets the job done for me.
| ArekDymalski wrote:
| Corel Rave - amazing tool for animations and simple, interactive
| stuff exported as Shockwave Flash.
|
| Google Inbox - neat interface for email (however Spike is an
| excellent alternative)
| kaffeeringe wrote:
| Google Wave
| mikewarot wrote:
| Google wave could have been amazing, had they not forced all
| those boxes into it, and just made things one big fluid
| document people could collaboratively edit.
| jeffkeen wrote:
| Lol, did you use this for something practical and useful? I
| remember it being kind of mind blowing tech wise at the time,
| but past that I can't remember getting a ton of use out of it?
| Remind me of the highlights?
| Schinken_ wrote:
| FWIW iirc it was continued for some time by apache
| (https://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html) but is also
| discontinued now. (I hope thats the correct project, but I'm
| pretty sure).
|
| Also here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-retired-wave
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| SpinRite
|
| I really miss the super-obvious _read-read-read-read-read, map
| bad sectors and move data to good sectors_ process. With modern
| data recovery software, I can 't always tell what it's doing
| (with mechanical drives).
|
| -- Okay so after looking up Spinrite on Wikipedia, I'm confused.
| I thought it was long discontinued. It was last updated in 2014
| but Steve Gibson still has it as a current product.
|
| Either way, I'm skeptical it'll recreate the recovery experience
| of my MFM days.
| scioto wrote:
| ECCO Pro PIM/Outliner.
|
| I kept so much info on that app. Got a little tired of double-
| clicking to expand/collapse outline levels, tho.
|
| Switched over to OmniOutliner until I missed an upgrade.
| Gordonjcp wrote:
| Pokebook.
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20091125090955/http://pokebook.c...
|
| The simplest, quickest, cleanest, and most efficient social
| networking site you've never used.
| [deleted]
| noloblo wrote:
| mailbox/astro ios/mac apps
|
| sourcetree
|
| hackpad
|
| dropbox pre-enterprise pre-electron
|
| one-drive pre-Files-on-Demand
| nicolashahn wrote:
| I still use https://github.com/nefarius/ScpToolkit to let me use
| my PS3 controller with my computer. It's the only way I've found
| but the driver has a bug that bluescreens my computer after it
| comes out of sleep, if the controller has been used before it
| went to sleep. If someone has an alternate driver please lmk!
| harshalizee wrote:
| Wunderlist
|
| It was such a well made, beautiful app. Microsoft bought it and
| shut it down. They asked existing users to export their data over
| to MS Todo. The export and MS account creation didn't work for me
| even after multiple tries. Plus, Microsoft ToDo just didn't have
| the same feature set and aesthetics as Wunderlist, so I just
| moved on to another app.
| InsOp wrote:
| What would keep me from recreating Wunderlist?
| prash_ant wrote:
| I can imagine the costs of supporting users and data sync
| over web, desktop apps, mobile apps on all platforms.
| Wunderlist had paid accounts which allowed more themes, but I
| remember most of the other features were on-par with free
| accounts.
|
| Other list apps have become more of a todo list app.
| Wunderlist encouraged all kinds of lists. - movies to watch.
| - packing list for weekend trip. - shopping list. - yardsale
| items.
| kactus wrote:
| Some of the people who worked on Wunderlist are working on a
| new todo app, Superlist. https://superlistapp.com
| rchaud wrote:
| Adobe Flash.
|
| I don't care how many issues it has. It was the last tool that
| made creative web and game design possible without needing to be
| a full stack JS developer.
|
| Part of the reason the web looks like a wasteland of responsive
| templates from 2012 is because the death of Flash changed how we
| wasted time on the Internet. Gone are the games and artistic
| experiences. In its place came content mills churning out GIF-
| laden quizzes, listicles and newsletters with a ton of ads
| littering every page. Buzzfeed is now a publicly traded company
| on the basis of how well it flattened Internet culture into it's
| one-size fits-all world.
| iAm25626 wrote:
| When you feel nostalgic: check out Chrome extension Ruffle. It
| reanimate those dead flash web app/game
| sjcoles wrote:
| Actionscript was the catalyst for me going from script kiddie
| to SWE. I made a decent living from 17-20 doing medical show
| kiosks and complex Flash sites for said medical providers. By
| the end of it I had a nice little data loading and UI component
| library akin to what you would see in Qt or GTK.
|
| I really wish I still had the HDD with the files on it to
| reminisce.
| Finnucane wrote:
| Kodachrome 25
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