Well, Flock is still a pain in the arse.

I got the clever little email a little while ago.

we imagine you might have one of the following
reactions below:

A) Ohmigod! This is great news! Where can I get it???

B) Flock, they’re still around? Lemmie see what
they are up to.

C) Stop bothering me

I figured I fit squarely into B, and I was tickled by the self-conscious humour, so I downloaded it and messed around a bit. The fucking Shelf seemed to be gone, which is good because I grew to hate it so much the last time it pretty much drove me away. Or maybe the Shelf is still here, but I’m not going to be hanging around long enough to find out.

See, I rediscovered Flock’s built-in blogging tool and began to write an indulgent and cautiously pro-Flock blogpost. It grew into a little paragraph about people who habitually use multiple browsers, and the reasons and moods aligned with each. And then Flock crashed unexpectedly and lost the post. (I hadn’t saved. I think I’ve been trained to not habitually save on the web by Gmail’s autosave-drafts feature. I still compulsively :wq on vi, though.)

Of course, I harbour no personal malice against Flock. Shit happens, you know. And I’m sure the bugs will be ironed out, et cetera. But what the hell, man -you send me the clever email, pique my curiosity, my roommate’s been marketing you at random intervals for days. I did sort of expect a distinct lack of segfaults.

Now to post this before it crashes again, and then its rm -rf ~/bin/flock for another few months…

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