In widescreen, the UI is unusable and gets very small on a video page for some reason. The overall design is genuinely overwhelming and feels like a bunch of components pasted in without any thought put into layout or scale.
Using a subdomain as a file URL feels vaguely wrong and I don't think it's very clear to the recipient what they're actually clicking on, but the UX is at least smooth. I don't think /file/[keyword] would be that bad.
This just looks like a ChatGPT wrapper with a button that prompts it to explain a sentence in English. I don't see how this is better than an intentionally designed language-learning course, or just practicing a language by talking to any other language model. This does no actual teaching.
Title's a Star Trek reference, and the video is a retrospective on YouTube, the state of algorithmic feeds, and its alternatives. It's largely an endorsement of Floatplane and the creator talks about moving to that platform.
I loved i.reddit, and really miss sites that were actually optimized for performance and low-end devices. It being removed kind of felt like a final nail in the coffin for that whole era. I think HTML Gmail was killed around that time too.