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At 13, I joined a Wolfenstein 3d modding forum. 22 years later, my posts are still there - and still searchable.
The discussion I had in Discord 2 years ago?
Not so much.
We chose this. We can choose better.
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-death-of-community-memory/
I recently spent forty minutes searching through Slack trying to find a technical decision — made eight months ago — about an app that 60% of my creative life depends on...I eventually gave up and just asked someone to explain it again, which they did, poorly, because they didn’t quite remember either.
a reminder that the language you use matters and "sideloading" is a term made up by the enemy
it's called installing software
This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie.
Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all?
Oh wait, that’s already what happens.
Apple’s as bad as everyone else. They don’t respect their customers — we’re fodder.
They truly have no standards anymore.
https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/114738626109660386
No, I do not want to install your app.
No, I do not want that app to run on startup.
No, I do not want that app shortcut on my desktop.
No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter.
No, I do not want your site to send me notifications.
No, I do not want to tell you about my recent experience.
No, I do not want to sign up for an account.
No, I do not want to sign up using a different service and let the two of you know about each other.
No, I do not want to sign in for a more personalized experience.
No, I do not want to allow you to read my contacts.
No, I do not want you to scan my content.
No, I do not want you to track me.
No, I do not want to click "Later" or "Not now" when what I mean is NO.
It’s interesting that the reaction to the overwrought JS ecosystem is to regress to sharing front-end UI state between the front and back end—expecting that to be simpler. It’s really not.
SPAs aren’t the problem. Accretion is. You can—and should—simplify: use fewer libraries, less code, and less tooling.
Every ecosystem expands to express more, faster. This one will too.
Discernment is the answer—not chasing the next stop on the bandwagon cycle.
Ben Werdmuller
Tom Forsyth
JA Westenberg
zaire the bored genderfuck
sofia
Marco Arment
Max Leibman
bhauman
JP