Quinn NortonI was a blogger back in the 90s and I'm so confused by how much worse blogging and blogging software is now vs the last fucking century.
Jorge Candeias@quinn yeah. The best we can get is stuff that basically hasn't changed for over a decade.
Philippa Cowderoy@quinn worst bit is it wouldn't matter if we didn't have to worry about being DDoSed by fucking scrapers!
(okay, comments are more awkward for some of us in our current legal landscapes)
@quinn ikr? five years back, static stuff on a pi zero or cheap generic web host with nothing added was fine still...
Josh Sutphin@quinn But back in the 90s you couldn't "grow your newsletter" and "monetize your audience" and "optimize your social strategy" and now you can do all of those things and also hate your life and yourself! š
@joshsutphin i hate this and i hate you now
š (jk, yaknow)
@quinn Tough, but fair š
acb@joshsutphin @jimbob @quinn I went to blogger meet-ups a year or two apart in the 00s. The earlier one was full of nerds banging on about their interests/obsessions; the latter one was full of people who looked like real-estate agents talking about āengagement metricsā or something, and how blogging could be used as a vehicle for building oneās brand/wealth. That, apparently, was when the grifters took over.
ploum@quinn @cstross : It applies to everything.
Iām confused as to why my brand new very high end microwave is heating the cup and never the content while requiring 7 touchscreen press each time (and two to stop it) while, 35 years ago, the cheapest microwave had just one dial for timer, one for power and it was heating everything perfectly.
Charlie Stross@cstross @quinn : Im still wondering why it is now impossible to get a bell for your door which is only a button enabling current to a buzzer.
It works great and even allow doing morse code when ringing.
But, somewhat, it is "cheaper" to have an electronic box with a recorded sound and then a second "hang up" sound 30 seconds later.
This doesnāt make any sense and it drives me nutsā¦
@cstross @quinn : on the other hand, Iām currently building a house and Iāve counted : if I had said yes to every app I was requested to install, it would be at 17. Not counting the 3 officially required for the carāÆ!
And 4 only to go to the toilet : (one for the cleaning water jet, one for the flush, yes, it is a different brand, one for the light and one for the ventilation)
Iāve found that "I donāt have a smartphone allows me to cut down endless discussions on this level)
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John Colagioia@quinn Recently, justifying my choice of Jekyll for my relatively recent blog, I discovered that Bloxsom is still apparently cooking along, which I guess has to count for something... http://www.blosxom.com/
@jcolag i would not call that cooking along š
but here's another reminder to get your cholesterol checked https://laughingsquid.com/web-1-summit/
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