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COUP!
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I could *maybe* do twenty. But even then I'd have to take a couple out behind the barn and I wouldn't feel good about that.
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Ten years! Gadzooks. Amazing, but I have to lie down now.
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Unexpected skull is right. That is probably the most unexpected a skull can possibly be.
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Generally speaking the online stuff requires that, yes.
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Yes.
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Anyway, I think that's about it. What have you guys been up to?
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And if you do find what Fade In Access has to offer useful at all, you can use it for as little or as long as you need to.
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If you've already got a robust system for backups and versions, or you don't need Google Docs-like online editing and collaboration, or always up-to-date publishing isn't on your list of must-haves, you can continue using Fade In just like you always have. You can ignore this whole thread.
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Now I know some of you are familiar with this developer's views on subscription software — which are not, shall we say, particularly charitable. That's why Fade In will remain a one-time purchase. There's no change to that.
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All together it's called Fade In Access. And it's an optional subscription service that integrates seamlessly with Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software and provides all the above features.
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You'll never have to email someone Read_This_One_FINAL-LATEST-v2.pdf in a panic ever again.
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Because you know what else would be cool? Now that everything and everyone is online? Making it so that you can send someone a link that will always open to the latest version in a pretty little desktop-and-mobile-friendly screenplay reader.
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But wait there's more!
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(This is obviously a big improvement over Fade In's existing collaboration functionality which, despite the best efforts of your friendly neighborhood screenwriting software developer, never quite perfect.)
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Of course why stop there, because once you've got Fade In running in a browser, then next thing you're going to want to do is make it basically Google Docs for screenplays by enabling multiple users to work on the same documents no matter where they are or when they're online.
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About six or eight months hard, that's how hard.
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But then, I thought, as long as we're doing *that*, i.e., since the files are available online, how hard would it be to make it so that you can work on them that way, too? You know, basically reimplementing a significant chunk of Fade In in Javascript, in a browser.
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Which if I do say so myself is pretty splendid: it's fast, secure, and specifically engineered to the things that screenplay software (and screenwriters) may need from it. For months now during testing I've been writing with my files in the cloud.
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So, since third-party cloud services were fraught with integration and support issues, Fade In did what it's always done and implemented its own, using S3-backed, encrypted, versioned data storage.
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(Especially since Fade In Mobile was not — if you want to know an insider secret of the screenwriting software business — a huge profit center, as a $4.95 USD one-time purchase for the full version.)
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So over the years, between getting burned by middleware and eventually writing an entire generic cloud file layer with plugins for each service — again, for both iOS and Android — this became an increasingly onerous task in terms of maintenance.
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Not to mention the fact that every time one of those companies changes something in their API, it necessitates anything from a minor tweak to a complete rewrite of the client software that uses it, like Fade In Mobile, for both iOS and Android.
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Fade In Mobile addressed this somewhat by providing integrations for Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud. But of course all of those services have slightly different capabilities and behavior, making uniform functionality a pretty elusive goal.
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Documents that were saved to their computer's hard drive. So that's not great. And the percentage of users who use any sort of regular backup, whether to a cloud service or even just an external hard drive, is basically zero.
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In fact, it's become increasingly common for someone to have a complete computer failure — or to have had their hard drive wiped and Windows reinstalled, or something like that — and then contact support asking how to recover their documents.
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Within the last several years, I've noticed a growing expectation from people that their documents should be available to them all the time. Phones, etc. have trained people to expect this. A surprising number of people are unaware of computer folders, much less how a filesystem is structured.
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So you have a breeze there
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What kind of unhinged person thinks boy, I sure have a lot of money, I should impregnate as many women as possible
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As a Canadian, I am obliged to say it is not just "your poutines", it is standing atop Potato Mountain in a lightning storm screaming at God IS THAT ALL YOU GOT.
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It just keeps getting worse and worse
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That actually crossed my mind, and I thought no, this can't be misinterpreted. You know I wouldn't say that in a reply to you! That would go in the private group chat!
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That is one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever seen a human being tweet.
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It's not brainstorming if you're not using your fucking brain.