Looking at what people were uploading and what people were watching leaves me feeling a bit wistful. It seems like it was a more authentic place before the money caught up with it.
Your mailbox? Likely stuffed with junk.
Your inbox? Likely stuffed with junk, or if it's not, make sure to check your spambox in case someone real is trying to contact you.
Your phone? Nobody answers calls because they're mostly telemarketers.
SMS? Yeah that's spammed to hell too.
Walls? Covered in billboards, in a tacky Red Queen race that nobody actually wins.
Public space? Nobody talks to each other in part because people who appear friendly are often trying to sell you something.
Tildes is a nice place as well.
"Best of the Web" since 1999
A broad set of interests are represented there, not just programming or technology focused. The submission quality is high, and it is well moderated.
MetaFilter has always had a pretty strong community. The addition of a $5 membership fee, similar to SomethingAwful, seems to have helped filter out the riff raff.
There's also an "ask" section, and ones for projects and music. Overall, it's a good community for general discussion of things happening on and offline.
As always, hope u got 10bux...
By the way, if a lobsters user is reading this, I would love an invite :)
One of its continued strengths is the number of useful or deep articles in tech combined with a high number of people in the community that write them. The audience is pretty passive. We have some people who steadily have good insights and submissions on specific topics. Then, there are some that show up out of nowhere with whopper comments you won't find in other places. They avoid high-traffic/noise sites like HN. So, you only see them on places like that. So, I read both the orange and red sites. :)
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signal: noise is a thing.
And while we're at it, I also want to get rid of the advertising that came chasing after these people.
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/national/puerto-rico-has-tur...
We can't pretend that Google, Youtube, etc could have continued indefinitely in their original forms without ever having to become profitable, or having to make any compromises.
Isn't that the way it always goes? I wish there were some way of permanently locking Wall Street out of the picture so we could actually have some nice things.
There will always be a large number of lower effort mods, it is easy to retexture or cut parts of existing armors then building new ones from scratch.
The main issue I see with some modding communities is the big egos of some people that leads to terms of use like "don't share this, this mod should not be shared on as different website" , it will make it kind of illegal then when the specified website will no longer exists to archive and move the mods or to create mod packs.
But obviously it depends on what games you're interested in seeing mods and fan projects of. The vast majority of the Mario/Zelda/Sonic/Metroid/Mega Man fan game and game mod/hack scene is basically entirely new games built on the original series' engine.
Some of the stuff you see there is crazy, arguably on par with many of the more well funded open source software found online. Like that project which adds online multiplayer to Super Mario 64, the mods which add MP3 music to SNES games, a Metroid mod which remade Metroid Fusion in Super Metroid with all the original content and an even smarter version of the SA-X hunting you down. Or perhaps Wiimmfi, which basically replaced all of Nintendo's online services for the DS and Wii, then significantly expanded on them with extra features and modes.
It's kind of insane how technically advanced much of this stuff can be, given it's all made by hobbyists in their free time with no hope of ever getting paid.
It's out there, but a lot of people generally consider the free/libre stuff "lower quality," which is often a fair accusation.
And then Red Hat[0] happened, and it all went to hell, like everything else Wall Street touches.
0: et many al, but they're the most visible culprits due to things like wayland and systemd.
The reality is that Hacker News is a generally high quality technical forum and that's the reason a lot of people are here.
That's a pretty good question though?
Surreal. I was on YouTube several times a day every day throughout 2006. YouTube used to actually be relatively static and unchanging, the top videos in the afternoon might have been roughly the same as in the morning.
I’m not just recognizing individual videos, I’m recognizing entire pages, down to video placements in the sorting order, seeing videos I actually clicked on and watched, maybe even gave one of like 51 star ratings to.
For some reason, it never occurred to me to look at YouTube in the Wayback Machine. On my phone right now, I can’t load any of the videos anyway for lack of a browser plug-in which around that time was basically Macromedia Flash 8 or something. Actually Macromedia might not have even been acquired by Adobe yet, or else the acquisition had just been recently announced. Either way it was Macromedia up until Adobe Flash 9.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to play any of the videos on a laptop, but I bookmarked a few familiar looking pages to try later.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061208100700/http://www.youtub...
Grab the 'v' parameter and paste it into a modern youtube video URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W-14qlnQWI
and watch Converse Hands Man in modern youtube glory.
Its youtube videos with zero or very few views.
"A compellingly written and highly original study of the practices of the early-adopter video blogging community. This essential study will change the ways in which we think about past, present and future online creative communities and digital platforms."
http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblog...