Completely missed that! No wonder that the post made me think of it then!

The tech stack reminds me of this: https://boringtechnology.club/

Totally off topic, but it is interesting to see the shift from Sxan being bombarded with downvotes, no matter the content of the comments. To now getting upvotes and people thinking the thorns are cool/interesting

There exists browser plugins for this

Also, they have a private API. Minim is a really good API wrapper in Python. The dev branch contains V2 which is currently in alpha

If you’re running Linux, check out QBZ, or qobuz-player if you prefer terminal. The official client also works pretty well in Bottles, but I like QBZ better than the official one

Casey Newton wrote about this a lot two years ago: https://www.platformer.news/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack/