Michael Thomas

Web Strategist at Red & Cyan

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

I've had 4 GPT 6.1 Sol Extra High threads running for 20+ hours straight and I still have 85% of my quota left.

I'll never get to use my resets....

[Anand C. Patel, MD MS @anandcpatelmdms]

@OpenAI "Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model." is extra irritating when you're in the "paying retail" aka API billing category of customers.

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@AdityaSaini_44 yeah in light of SOL-6.1 I'll keep using Codex for now and see if I can keep within my limits, instead of blowing my weekly in one day with ASTRA, and not having to rely on the less capable SOL-6 aka cheap version of SOL-5.6

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@Greg_GL_87 @Mr_Salio They mean GPT-6-SOL

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@LDT0545 Absa-f-in-lutely

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@buildwithrajath Feels worse for me. I burned through 2 weeks worth of ASTRA in 2 days and I'm on the 20x plan. only 1 reset left

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@elstar4x I burned through 2 weeks worth of ASTRA in 2 days and I'm on the 20x plan. I'm not even building anything crazy and I never go above xhigh reasoning. down to my last 2 resets

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@Cheeks2184 I was using an orchestrator agent at xhigh, with sub-agents at xhigh and burned through the reset in one day, so I used one of my own resets and burned through that today too

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@Fmk905 @OpenAIDevs Looks like the Chrome extension isn't available in the EU yet?

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@TROOPSTER147 @virginmedia Same here in Blackpool. Sky Sports is unwatchable right now. The local fault checker is not working on the Virgin site either.

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@ALSP8 @SkySportsPL @virginmedia Same here mate

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@fklux @marinusklasen Fair enough. Best of luck Fränk. Thanks for everything.

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@azar47_ @micsolana It’s been 5 weeks now…

[EverETH @EverETHofficial]

Amazing experience at @token2049 Singapore! We are grateful to connect with so many innovators and make new friends in the industry. Congrats to the organizers for an outstanding event. We can't wait for the next one! #Token2049

[Cyrus SEO @CyrusShepard]

An open letter to the folks in Google Search:

Listen, I know you recieve a lot of criticism. No matter who you rank on top, folks are likely to complain. I also know you're fighting an army of spammers and over-optimized content that threaten the quality of search results. I get it

But let's also recognize that consistently ranking a site #1 will lead to commercial spam on that site and worsening results.

Whether it's Reddit or Forbes, folks will see easy money, and now you're fighting another moving target.

Do we think Forbes should rank #1 for "best crypto exchange" alongside "best cbd gummies" along with "best headphones" and 100s of thousands of other "best" keywords? 🤔

Does the "brand" of Forbes equate to product expertise?

When we look at these pages, we don't see the evidence of personal experience and expertise that you demand of smaller publishers. There's very little evidence that they've actually used many of these products. If we're being honest, these results seem worse than the "unhelpful" content you fought to reduce. What gives? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When we see Forbes and Reddit over and over again, it doesn't feel like Google is "searching" anymore, but instead, you gave up to serve the McDonalds of search results with 2-3 items on the menu.

Here's what we'd love to see instead:

1) Increase site diversity, so we see different sites with more focused expertise

2) Apply the same content standards of "Helpful Content" to big and small sites alike (you know the standards I'm talking about)

3) Reduce any punishment of sites with small brand footprints. I understand your intentions here, but not every well-researched site has a real-world presence. (and turn down this signal for big brands, as it encourages bad behavior)

I've seen what you are doing with Helpful Content and applaud much of it. You could improve Google search if you applied these principles more broadly while relying less on the brand, which has become less reliable over time.

Thank you for listening.

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@the_WaterWell @gtmetrix been using this for years. I've not experienced this before

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

Veeery nice UI by Ronas IT | UI/UX Team https://t.co/Vm0Ka2Le2B

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@GravityWiz congratulations on your website new design. It's looking reeeeeel good now! Great job!

[Michael Thomas @MikeThomasDev]

@DefiShaun @CryptoAtlasYT #CodenameMoon #SAFEMOON