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I rage closed that window for downloading a 720p(!) 2.5MB video showing some swooshing squares that takes up the entirety of the "welcome to this content" section. It's one level of disrespect for my time to eat a huge swath of space with a gif, it's a whole other level to put a movie trailer above your blog content just to make squares dance around

In an attempt to rescue this rant with some actual content: one might have interest in the recent series of threads over in r/devops about people's differing experiences between datadog's _product_ and datadog's _organization_. I would guess if there are problems knowing ahead of time how much mere monitoring costs, that "attack surface" grows the more products one attempts to consume from datadog

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> one might have interest in the recent series of threads over in r/devops about people's differing experiences between datadog's _product_ and datadog's _organization_.

I briefly tried to find some of these, but I'm not clear on which threads you're referring to. If you have time to post some that'd be interesting to me.

The one I did find was someone complaining about being "scammed" but it seemed pretty clear that they'd enabled an extra paid feature, without understanding the pricing, and it didn't really seem like Datadog did anything wrong... So if that's all people are complaining about it doesn't seem very interesting.

We may be talking about the same thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/i63xxv/datadog_shad... but my take away wasn't from the original poster's story, it was from the numerous replies with their own story about the product being fine but the interactions with the business being suboptimal. I also came into that thread having just heard a similar story last week from an non-reddit source. "..., twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action," as the tale goes.

Even surfing around the new comments _here_ seems to reinforce that same theme, so whatever the next phase is beyond enemy action, I'm pretty sure we've crossed that threshold

Doesn't bode well for DataDog's Performance Monitoring tool, especially if they don't use it on their own site!

you are angry about 2.5mb video, its 2020 pal get a broadband connection

Look buddy sometimes we just want to read some text while we're sitting at a bus stop.

depending on where they are that might not be that easy

I just moved to Phoenix from Chicago - even in a major US city I'm forced to use DSL by the apartment complex I live in. I didn't think I'd have to check to see if I can get broadband because it seemed insane to think that it wouldn't be available.

Nonetheless, pages with needless weight have become incredibly annoying, inconvenient, and cumbersome. Also, the much of the rest of the US (outside of metro areas) has some really terrible access to decent internet speeds. That's not even to mention anywhere in the rest of the world.

So kindly cool it with your needless condescension. It's unnecessary and contributes nothing.

Hey Neighbor!

  If you can get it... Cox has gigablast available here for about $120/month.  I get about 800ish down and 35ish up.

Thanks for the advice! Unfortunately, the apartment complex has an exclusivity agreement with CenturyLink. Cox and others have expressed willingness to pull cable into my unit, but the management company just won't allow it. It's driving me insane. It's unfortunate that this type of practice is even allowed/legal.

oh wow...That really does suck. I haven't tried any of the WISPs[0]yet, but maybe they would work?

0 like https://www.airfiber.cc/ ??

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