CalicosineCompletely forgot I had a Crossway/ESV Online account until today when they emailed me about both websites having their accounts split so any account changes on one doesn't carry over to the other anymore. Updated my password on both because it was really outdated and just as a head's up, there's no button to delete it if you don't use it anymore (only had it because it let...
you sync your spot on the website version but only ever used the app and even then I never signed in), and there isn't even 2FA so make your passwords long and secure. It does have a nice UI though and plenty of options, at least (and the apps [including the Windows Phone one, btw, which showed your current verse on the back of the Live Tile] also tend to look nice, just one[?] of the text options on I think the Android one looks bad from what I remember).
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Maybe there are ebook reader devs out there that could learn a thing or three from their designers/developers. Not a fan of how the sepia theme works on the website compared to the app. Probably last used the site in like 2013, maybe 2014 at the latest. Did manage to almost read the entire thing (in the app) as of sometime in early 2020 but gave up in Job because it was too depressing and I couldn't handle that.
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ESV has translation issues (like stuff that was changed for political reasons in various translations in the last 100 years) last I checked though, so aside from being understandable compared to KJV, it's not great. Plus the whole thing about evangelicals being involved with figuring out what should go in it (definitely the reason why they had at least one purposeful politically-motivated mistranslation in it)...
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and the licensing thing where you can't have more than a third or so of a larger work be its text without permission or something is also kinda gross. The licensing thing may have changed but I haven't looked at that, either.
Kinda off-topic, but Bible translations should add a feature where God's words are in a color (besides red) in the Old Testament (at least part of, if not all of but I don't know so I'm not saying for sure it's all of, the Torah, from Judaism).
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It's hard to follow what's going on when you're used to seeing the red words here and there while reading the New Testament and going back to the stuff before it. I think that's just ADHD. I wonder if that's a feature of non-Bible holy books. Very useful.
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Also I kept thinking of Crossray when reading the name "Crossway" while typing this. Brainrot!