Boy, Twitter’s UI is hot garbage. The replies to the original poster made his series of tweets about the bar impossible to read.
blivet
joined 1 year ago
Look, if we want more paperclips some small sacrifices will have to be made.
I've noticed that some Wikipedia references now link to a Wayback Machine archive instead of directly to the original page. That's probably the smart way to do it.
In my case none of the dead links I had bookmarked were all that important. I had actually decided to try to check them in the first place because I couldn't remember what a lot of them were.
Yeah, I used to work at a university, so I've been around since the earliest days of the web. It's kind of ironic that from the very start one of the big misgivings from academics about the web as a research tool was the ephemeral nature of its content. One of the examples given back in the 1990s was that a lot of websites that people had begun to rely on were really just some grad student's pet project, and when they moved on someone else might or might not pick up where they left off.
The scale of things has certainly changed since then, but nothing seems to have become more permanent. Just the other day I went through my list of bookmarks on a topic, and easily half of them now lead nowhere, even URLs for major news outlets and blogging platforms that are still extant.
Yeah, same here. I spent my entire time on Threads clicking on everything I could find, trying without success to find a view that just showed the people I followed. I guess it's continuing the time-honored Facebook tradition of not letting you decide what you want to see in your feed.
Yeah, my first reaction to this story was, why didn't they sue any of the other Twitter clones before this?
Jeez, I remember when Instagram was a fun photo editing app that you could use without even creating an account.
In the abstract I would rather not have my up- and downvotes be public information, but in practice I don’t think anyone will have enough interest in me and my doings for it to matter.
One of the most enjoyable bits in REAMDE was about how the users of an MMORPG split into two warring factions over whether they preferred the default color palette or a custom version.
Thanks, that’s really interesting. The cancellation process used to be much more straightforward. I wonder when they changed it.
Also the two handguns.
I started routinely deleting my comments anyhow after someone creeped me out by searching through my history for ammunition to use in an argument. I just deleted the five or six recent ones I hadn’t done yet, and that was that. I’ve kept my account because it might come in handy at some point, but I’ve only been on Reddit once in the past few weeks.