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Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by catalogia »

linuxftw wrote: post #71
yoz-y wrote: post #55

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Missed that by almost a decade. I just feel that there is a lot of nostalgia for the old times whereas nothing is actually preventing people from doing what was done before. Replying a bit transversally here, but I was on IRC 18 years ago and still am every day. Any game you have played before can be played now, easier than before, heck we are just organizing Worms I tournament. Youtube is still full of funny stuff a…

Search engines are preventing what was done before. Yahoo search would bring up sites on geocities, or small indy sites, for pretty much any topic. For instance, in the mid 90's you could search for the band "Green Day" on yahoo, and get all sorts of personal fan pages. Now it's 100% corporate crap results. Independent users no longer have the 'reach' as the corporate users do. We used to share cool things via word o…

> "Green Day" [...] 100% corporate

Sounds like modern search engines know the score. I'm kind of kidding.. only kind of. If you search for non-corporate content you get more non-corporate results, although admittedly less than in the past.

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Post by pfranz »

rchaud wrote: post #179
pfranz wrote: post #118

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Eh. I think that's a bit of oversimplification. I work in computer graphics. All of the "old school" companies (been around for 30+ years; Pixar, Blue Sky, DreamWorks) wrote their own renderer/compositor and other tools because they had to. Today most of those companies have shed (or spun off) most all of their proprietary core software. A very few companies (Sony and Disney) have developed newer generations of rende…

I remember watching videos on CollegeHumor.com back in 2008 or so, well before Facebook video. The videos worked fine then. They made the leap to FB because they saw their traffic disappearing as aggregators (FB, Twitter, Reddit) started creating a walled-garden UX discouraging users from leaving their site. Beyond a couple of viral videos, I don't think I've ever watched anything else from them, so I can't say I kno…

But the web isn't static. Viral videos used to be emailed around and show up on sitcoms. There are a lot of sites that worked well on a desktop, but are frustrating or unusable on mobile. That's especially problematic if your audience moves to the walled garden of Facebook.

Right around that same time (2008) we were using Linux and YouTube stopped working because we had trouble getting a 64-bit Flash plugin--which is/was heavily used for reference. I remember reading up on the inconsistent video format support between browsers. Flash never worked on iPhones yet YouTube had an app on day one.

I'm sure they were pulled to Facebook because of the fake numbers, but I imagine the burden of maintaining their own platform might have pushed them as well. I'm a bit curious if the recent push away from YouTube and building your own platforms will be successful now that a lot of that tech has settled and infrastructure like CDNs and compute is more commoditized.

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Post by jedimastert »

geddy wrote: post #100
jedberg wrote: post #92

Presumably Sam now owns the rights to all the content. He could shop it around to Netflix/Hulu/Amazon. I’ll bet one of them would pick it up and maybe even give him a budget to hire some of the writers back and make new content again.

Putting it all behind yet another walled garden? Before you know it, 90% of the internet will be gated behind paywalls or signups.

Is there an alternative between this and ads?

Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by [deleted] »

yoz-y wrote: post #33

Why does the article start with a false premise that "internet used to be fun" and "bygone era". Come on, if you don't want to follow Twitter drama just go to some other place. Ugh.

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Post by bpt3 »

endothrowho333 wrote: post #158
bpt3 wrote: post #148

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No, it does not in my opinion. What problem described above would crypto solve?

Patreon taking a cut and not allowing adult content. Payment processing and facilitating has tangible expenses (cost) and payment processors do not want to get involved with any companies involved with sordid industries (higher fraud). Patreon adopting crypto cuts out the middleman processor and solves both problems. But crypto ia too user-unfriendly at the moment, so usage would be very limited.

> Patreon taking a cut and not allowing adult content.

That's an issue with the payment manager, not the currency used for payment.

> Payment processing and facilitating has tangible expenses (cost) and payment processors do not want to get involved with any companies involved with sordid industries (higher fraud).

I agree completely.

> Patreon adopting crypto cuts out the middleman processor and solves both problems.

I disagree here. Presumably, the assessment that adult content is higher risk is valid, and Patreon would just assume that risk themselves if they didn't involve a third party payment processor, regardless of the currency used for payment.

Is your claim that fraud would be reduced because there's no real way to reverse a crypto transaction at the moment? If so, my stance is that accepting crypto would just open them up to other issues associated with fraud, and wouldn't be worth the effort.

> But crypto ia too user-unfriendly at the moment, so usage would be very limited.

I agree with this as well, which is another reason crypto isn't the solution here.

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Post by draw_down »

40four wrote: post #36

Unrelated... but on the Washington Post I clicked through to the page that sells subscriptions, only to find that they hijack you back button and do not allow you to go back in your browser history. What a joke. Makes me want to never visit their site again. That is unacceptable.

Come on

Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by manigandham »

jjeaff wrote: post #182
manigandham wrote: post #140

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Not they aren't. Facebook and Google are advertising businesses, and two of the most valuable companies in the world. Poorly executed business models based on faulty data and no clear profitability are fragile.

Facebook and google aren't ad supported in the sense that many content creators are. They are ad platform providers which gives them a totally different position of power than 99% of companies out there trying to live on ad revenue.

They're exactly the same. They sell advertising space on their own websites and get attention by giving away free content and services. Publishers also buy each others tech and advertise on each others sites.

The business models are identical, just with vastly different scales.

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Post by sitkack »

echelon wrote: post #15
sitkack wrote: post #6

CollegeHumor had same damn well written, well produced comedic satire. I hope all of their material is archived. One thing to watch out for is if this posted under their Geuite account to YouTube, when the gsuite bill isn’t paid, all the YouTube videos will get deleted, leaving a cultural hole. Of all the Google crimes, this one is accidental but the most damaging to society.

YouTube deletes videos attached to corporate accounts if their bills go unpaid? Have they done this in the past?

All of the Ricon talks by Basho have been lost to the sands of time for this very reason.

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Post by Gibbon1 »

rhizome wrote: post #178
HeroOfAges wrote: post #123

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When you can objectively measure results, you'll often find that the people making decisions in an organization aren't as competent as they seem. It's a bitter pill to swallow when you realize that most of the people you have to take orders from didn't get to where they are through intelligence, hard work and character.

Hence "networking" being one of the most persistent pieces of advice under job-hunt posts.

Three career stages are based on.

Stage 1: What you can learn.

Stage 2: What you know.

Stage 3: Who you know.

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