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Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by Fuzzwah »

coreyhn wrote: post #74

Yahoo pipes. It was so great at creating rss feeds and custom workflows. There are replacements now like Zapier and n8n but loved that. Also google reader which is mentioned multiple times already.

I loved pipes. I had rss feeds from all the sites where I was sharing content collected up and formatted via pipes into a single rss feed that was pulled into a php blog.

Then all those sites I used to post on stopped supporting rss one by one and finally pipes was killed off.

For a while I used a python library called riko that did the same thing as pipes without the visual editor. I have to thank it for getting me off php and into python.

https://github.com/nerevu/riko

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Post by Fuzzwah »

Towaway69 wrote: post #123

The information superhighway The internet before advertising, artificial intelligence, social media and bots. When folks created startups in their bedrooms or garages. The days when google slogan was “don’t be evil”.

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Post by pyromaker »

coreyhn wrote: post #74

Yahoo pipes. It was so great at creating rss feeds and custom workflows. There are replacements now like Zapier and n8n but loved that. Also google reader which is mentioned multiple times already.

I missed Yahoo Pipes a lot so I built something similar recently for myself :) I know there are a few alternatives out there, but had to scratch my own itch.

https://www.mashups.io

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Post by thinkingemote »

Positron - Firefox version of Electron. "Electron-compatible runtime on top of Gecko" https://github.com/mozilla/positron

This would have changed so much. Desktop apps powered by the engine of Firefox not Chrome.

Why? Not enough company buy in, not enough devs worked on it. Maybe developed before a major Firefox re-write?

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by rzzzt »

ValdikSS wrote: post #262

ZeroNet decentralized web platform: - Based on BitTorrent ideas - Completely decentralized websites' code and data - Either completely decentralized or controllable-decentralized authentication - Could be integrated into existing websites (!) It's not kind of dead, there's a supported fork, but it still feels like a revolution that did not happen. It works really well.

Same with Beaker Browser and Dat/Hyperdrive as its backend.

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Post by spike021 »

silisili wrote: post #256

I've argued this for years on this site...but AOL. At its best, having IM, email, browser, games, keywords, chats, etc. was a beautiful idea IMO. That they were an ISP seemed secondary or even unrelated to the idea. But they chose to charge for access even in the age of broadband, and adopt gym level subscription tactics to boot, and people decided they'd rather not pay it which is to be expected. I often wonder if t…

I miss AIM, and that type of messenger in general, a lot.

You could purposely choose to be online or offline.

Much easier to draw a line back then about how often you were online.

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Post by Fuzzwah »

Kuro5hin

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin

I was a hold out on smartphones for a while and I used to print out k5 articles to read while afk... Just such an amazing collection of people sharing ideas and communal moderation, editing and up voting.

I learned about so many wierd and wonderful things from that site.

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Post by JoeyJoJoJr »

bitwize wrote: post #178
bapak wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's incredible to me that they killed the whole tool instead of making a JS/Canvas port. Even without "full flash websites", there's still need for vectorial animations on the web.

Adobe Animate (new name for Macromedia/Adobe Flash) can output to JS/Canvas now.

Can it really do interactive things though, like games? The main draw card of Flash was its excellent integration of code and animation.

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Post by vendiddy »

mikewarot wrote: post #259
BirAdam wrote: post #68

Google Wave. Edit: you asked why. I first saw it at SELF where Chris DiBona showed it to me and a close friend. It was awesome. Real time translation, integration of various types of messaging, tons of cool capabilities, and it was fully open source. What made it out of Google was a stripped down version of what I was shown, the market rejected it, and it was a sad day. Now, I am left with JIRA, Slack, and email. It…

Google wave was built on an awesome technology layer, and they they totally blew in on the user interface.... deciding to treat it as a set of separate items instead of a single document everyone everywhere all at once could edit.... killed it. It make it seem needlessly complicated, and effectively erased all the positives.

I think this is spot on. A document metaphor would have made a Wave a lot easier to understand.

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by ssss11 »

Flickr - that was the future of photo storage, sharing, discovery.

What was the bookmarks social tool called from 00’s? I loved it and it fell off the earth. You could save your bookmarks, “publish” them to the community, share etc..

What ever happened to those build your own homepage apps like startpage (I think)? I always thought those would take off

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