I miss gigposters.com a lot, the community there was awesome with all the big poster artists hanging around and giving beginners advice.
Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
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Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
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I used to be the Administrator of several different iPBFree forums before iPBFree suddenly disappeared. I really miss the graphics/writing communities that were scattered around forums - it's actually how I learned how to use Photoshop and do front-end programming with HTML/CSS/JS! Messing around with free forums is what landed me my career today - but forums are all but dead due to social media platforms. Even dedic…
Actually, you might find something on JCInk, a lot of the IPBFree communities moved there (having abandoned Invisionfree/Zetaboards).
I actually knew John quite well and helped write plenty of tutorials for how to use their ACP back in the day. Since Vipul (the admin of iPBFree) was basically M.I.A for 80% of the time I had been on iPBFree I had once thought of switching over to jcink. Even since not using the forum since 2008 I'm one of the Top 10 pages of posters on the support forum. :)
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#123I 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…
What did you try? I used Inoreader and it's now better than Google Reader ever was.
I tried Feedly and a couple others, but I think I gave up in despair before Inoreader came out. I should give it another go ;-)
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#124I 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 feel your pain on loosing Google Reader. I have tried dozens of replacements and finally landed at https://digg.com/reader if you can believe that... Also, I am sure you have seen them but just incase you haven't - https://theoldreader.com/home was super similar to Google Reader. Alas neither of these are the same but perhaps they will be "good enough".
Thanks for digg/reader - liking the simplicity
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#125Fuckedcompany.com
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#126the original myspace.com
it was a colorful and public social media platform, not this monochromous closed bullshit called facebook. as a user 'you were allowed' (keep that in mind in todays world of restricted fb!) to customize the entire look of your page with strange css/html/javascript hacks. that was really fun to do! things started to get odd when they regularly changed website mechanisms like location based services to invite people to a concert/party. that's how this web service got unreliable and frustrating
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#127I am on Internet since 1992 and I do miss absolutely nothing. Websites were horrible, with limited usability and you then had to send a cheque or call.
Today internet life is simply better, with much much more choice.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#128The old Youtube, before the fake pranks, fake news, stupid kids doing Minecraft, and no suggestion algorithms that prioritize clickbait.
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
What did you try? I used Inoreader and it's now better than Google Reader ever was.
+1 for Inoreader. After Google Reader shut down there was a lull where no RSS reader was good enough or similar enough to be satisfactory, but Inoreader is now the proper replacement for me
How is Inoreader sustained? The account is free, but TINSTAFL ... is their an upcharge for some services? Are they doing in-system advertising?
Re: Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
#130The Fake Steve Jobs Diary comes to mind.