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Comment by beowulfey | Hacker News Reader

I've gone to ultimate-guitar since the early 2000s. Some of my tabs are still on there. Visiting it today is a god-damn tragedy. What a mess of a site. I'll definitely be trying this.

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The only things from that era that didn’t get outright worse stayed the same (Craigslist).

What was beautiful about the internet then was there were so many corners were monetization either wasn’t easy or wasn’t chased so things could just exist.

Not so anymore!

Sites need to monetize because how else will they pay for Amazon ElasticLambda to serve their users’ click X-Y coordinates to T5 FireAnt, their distributed backend, on a planetary scale?

You have forgotten Bonzi Buddy.

Craigslist needs to be added to the list of national historical sites and should _never ever_ be allowed to change.

They've made small, thought out changes over the years that improved things. Small things like better gallery image handling and some filtering.

As long as they maintain that pace, I'm fine with some changes.

Yes, it's very sad to see work you provided for free to a community used to exploit these people.

Same. I made many online friends on the forum and it used to be my e-hangout in the early to mid 00s. I fondly remember the IRC channel we used to hang out in. I think I have a tab or two published on the site as well. Every time I pop back in for a visit these past few years it always pushes me back away.

Rest in peace, mxtabs.

I guess the upside to UG is that it encouraged me to learn by ear.

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