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I had it for more than 5 years before abandoning it. I still got ads. I’d complain and YouTube would tell me it was a rare bug, or my browser, or the phase of the moon. They’d promise it’d never happen again and it still kept happening. I suspect it was a test to see what they could get away with.

Others in the comments have similar stories.

You occasionally still get ads, even with premium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

GenX. I used IRC back in the early 90s, but by the mid-90s I’d moved on. Probably to ICQ. I can’t recall.

Then, in the mid-noughties my millennial work colleagues were going crazy for Mirc. I was shocked to discover it was just IRC with a pretty face but all the same issues that caused me to leave it 10 years before.

And it’s still going. Although, no longer flavour of the month.

I live in Asia, and I’m constantly mocked for eating steamed rice with milk and sugar/sweetener.

I showed my wife the before and after of my home pages. She said, “They’re the same.”

Happy.

I just switched to Octopi. For me, it’s an almost perfect replacement. Plus it’s a local developer.

They could have bought second life a hundred times over and at least had something that worked (albeit poorly).

I played for a while, thanks to Jingles. Never really grabbed me though.

I agree. I looked at tailwind and couldn’t believe it was so popular. It defeats the entire purpose of CSS, and returns web dev back to the early 90s. Just stupid.