Yup. This has been posted so much over the years, I'm not sure there's anything left to comment that hasn't already been commented... :P
I've found the key, when you're on a forum and see something discussed more than once, is to change your thinking. Instead of getting annoyed, think great, a new cohort of people will get to talk about this important topic.
This kind of reframing works in many different areas of my life and the older I get, the more I have to apply it to avoid becoming a grumpy old curmudgeon.
(Links to the old discussions are great though, they just don't need to be followed up by complaining every time.)
Repetition may be seen as a visitor’s expense, but appreciating it creates a huge net profit over time, cause it helps a community to stay fit and alive.
> No man ever visits the same URI twice, for even if it is a cool URI which does not change, he is not the same man.
I would have agreed with you a year ago. But now, with AI, the entire web model may become less of a thing.
I thought the web would endure forever, despite the attacks from platforms and browser monopolizers.
Now it looks like social will soon be overrun by robots (maybe creepy ID verification will save it?), and the need to publish information will diminish as you can generate it and probably share the results on some future AI platform.
What does that even mean? Because it could credibly mean like 20 different things, some of which would clearly be nonsense, but you haven’t left us with a specific enough of an idea to engage with either way.
AI applications function with the web model. The web will to some extent endure forever, I doubt it'd ever go fully extinct. We may use AI tools more, but not for everything.