Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 130 posts

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

#81

Post by chadgeidel »

MrMember wrote: post #56
lacker wrote: post #25

I miss Google Reader. I used to read ~100 longer-form blogs that didn't publish daily. After Google Reader went away, I tried other RSS readers but they just weren't as convenient, and my online reading habits shifted to more Twitter. At first that seemed fine but over time it has become hard to keep my Twitter feed free of distracting trivia. Nowadays I just have a much smaller list of blogs I read regularly. I also…

I use Newsblur now (and even pay $25 or something for the yearly subscription) and it's pretty good but I still miss Google Reader.

Happy subscriber to Newsblur here too, I actually prefer it to Google Reader, primarily due to the high-quality iOS app.

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

#83

Post by Nadya »

dewey wrote: post #70
Nadya wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A very large portion of the WCD community, especially the more active members of the forums, have largely moved to [Redacted] or [God of Music]. In case you never found out and would like to possibly re-unite with some old friends from WCD.

I’m on all of these and it’s not the same and I think it will never be. Mostly because torrenting in general is getting less popular and with the raise of streaming services and them getting “good enough” a lot of heavy users including myself moved on. It was also apparent in the forum activity on What that went down steadily over the last years. I also experienced that a lot of my social circle wasn’t that active an…

I agree it's not the same - but wanted to put that offer on the table in case you weren't and wanted to contact people you may have lost touch with because of the shutdown. Losing touch with friends because you cannot contact them is terrible.

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

#84

Post by dewey »

Nadya wrote: post #83
dewey wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m on all of these and it’s not the same and I think it will never be. Mostly because torrenting in general is getting less popular and with the raise of streaming services and them getting “good enough” a lot of heavy users including myself moved on. It was also apparent in the forum activity on What that went down steadily over the last years. I also experienced that a lot of my social circle wasn’t that active an…

I agree it's not the same - but wanted to put that offer on the table in case you weren't and wanted to contact people you may have lost touch with because of the shutdown. Losing touch with friends because you cannot contact them is terrible.

I figured, thanks for that!

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

#85

Post by wink »

EZBoard[0], a hosted forums website where you could register a forum for free and IIRC pay to remove ads. (from 98/99 to ~2004)

For me it was social media before social media. I'm just barely old enough to have used newsgroups in the late 90s, but I was never a friend of the interfaces to that medium (which is interesting, I usually prefer CLI over GUI, just not for communication). The web, on the other hand, was very very interesting.

Long story short, made a ton of friends on various of the board communities (mostly digital artists, graphic/screen designers, and web developers (before that was a term)).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezboard

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

#86

Post by wink »

lacker wrote: post #25

I miss Google Reader. I used to read ~100 longer-form blogs that didn't publish daily. After Google Reader went away, I tried other RSS readers but they just weren't as convenient, and my online reading habits shifted to more Twitter. At first that seemed fine but over time it has become hard to keep my Twitter feed free of distracting trivia. Nowadays I just have a much smaller list of blogs I read regularly. I also…

I've heard this a ton of times, but I really can't grasp it. I've used RSS readers before, switched to Google Reader because it was better and didn't have a problem adjusting to another one after it went down.

But I've experienced this with other things, like for example I've been using Thunderbird since not long after Firefox was still called Phoenix and haven't manage to find anything close to a replacement, so maybe I shouldn't even speak up. :)

Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

#87

Post by wink »

gfosco wrote: post #28

Old games forums like BluesNews and TheShack.

https://www.bluesnews.com is still running, which I learned like 1-2 years ago. But I (like you, I suppose) stopped reading a very long time ago. Can't comment if it's the same team, though.
Post reply on HN