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Annoying that they hyped up this live keynote, and then it was all previous / pre-recorded announcements.

I figured with all the other releases, this keynote would show something really big — maybe they should've saved the databases reveal.

Instead we get "the thing we announced months ago is out of beta".

Vercel, you've been inconsiderate with my time.

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The keynote was the summary of the entire week, which included the intro/outro, visual editing section, and the Next.js section which were new. A lot of folks were just tuning in today, versus the start of the week, but yeah, I can empathize with there being some parts that overlap. We'll be publishing more Next.js content here in the coming weeks around the new features as well.

Yeah - "keynote" seemed to imply a big presentation. Not 15 minutes, most of which was literally already released video content. Now confused what is the point of "day 5" if the big reveal is done.

> live keynote, and then it was all previous / pre-recorded announcements

Those appear to be mostly equivalent if you're watching it online.

If you don't feel they're almost equivalent, lockdown might have been easier. Personally I find online conferences disappointing and only watch if it's the same sort of content I would watch in a simple video.

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