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Post by ghaff »

b4ke wrote: post #176
ghaff wrote: post #156

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Part of me agrees with you. Part of me thinks Yahoo largely bet on all the wrong horses. Users mostly didn't want directories of web sites and portals (which couldn't really scale anyway), they wanted search. Microblogging (and individual blogging sites generally) fell out of favor. I consider it a minor miracle that Blogger is still around and Google even did a minor and only somewhat regressive update recently. Mos…

I doubt long.... i attempted to create a new account the other day. it was a failed affair.

It's too bad. I find it a handy place to keep my "good" photos in a way they can be publicly accessed. And act as a backup of last resort. But my sense from various moves/announcements they've made is that the revenue/cost may not be working out. I hope that's not the case but... The other big loss for me personally is that they're a great source of CC photographs (in addition to the Flickr Commons). But it's probably unrealistic to expect a small company that doesn't have other big sources of revenue to provide that amount of free hosting. Google should have bought Flickr way back when but... Google.

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Post by MH15 »

I love how he doesn't even link to Pinboard. It seems he's doing this just out of personal obligation.

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Post by CalRobert »

zimpenfish wrote: post #90
CalRobert wrote: post #39

I never used del.icio.us but am I wrong in thinking that getting bookmarks from 10 years ago will just give a bunch of 404's?

That's why he offered an archiving service :) Seems to be doing ok for me at least - > 59795 of your bookmarks have been archived, representing 93% of your collection. 4380 bookmarks have not been stored due to errors: not found 2298, server error 970, (bunch of other small stuff)

Ah, cool!

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Post by SllX »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #114
conjectures wrote: post #60

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This made me nostalgic for RSS. Is anyone reviving that in a nice way?

It's still there, but support isn't great - a lot of sites don't have a feed, or it's waaaay outdated.

A lot of sites that do have a feed don’t make it easily discoverable. You can play around with three URL path, or you can use a browser extension to find it. If it’s a Substack site, the feed URL probably exists and is probably just /feed/, at least on the sites I’ve tried.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by the_af »

GuB-42 wrote: post #139
wombatmobile wrote: post #76

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One difference in the fate of Yahoo vis a vis Google, is that Yahoo didn't spy on its users and exploit the knowledge gained from spying to make gazillions from advertising. Take from that what you will. Google made money, and then Facebook learned how to make money by trumping Google - by harvesting the "digital surplus" of its users to power an advertising juggernaut. The rise of advertising everywhere, and the los…

I don't know how Yahoo spied on their users, privacy wasn't that big a thing in the early 2000s. But just look at the difference between the Google homepage and that of Yahoo from 1999. Google was a simple "search" box, Yahoo was cluttered with tons of stuff, including ads. What made Google successful, besides being very effective as a search engine, is that it didn't have annoying ads, trivia and dubious content. Ti…

Agreed. I remember when someone first showed me Google's search page. It was so uncluttered it was shocking. I didn't notice anything about the quality of search results, or how they compared with Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos or the rest. Just that it was so clean and uncluttered.

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Post by onemoresoop »

benibela wrote: post #170
iso1631 wrote: post #149

I'm shocked by the number of people calling a website founded in 2003 as "old school". That was 3 years after the dot-com bust!

We should bring back the webrings

I remember webrings and browsing around was so serendipitous. Id certainly welcome them back

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Post by greyhair »

bitslayer wrote: post #167
thinkingkong wrote: post #157

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What kind of increase in productivity does just not showing up provide? People should be able to take sick days, personal days, mental health days, but disappearing should have raised concern from team members to see if that person is OK.

Management could have been aware of more personal details that coworkers should not know. I don't think it is necessarily a black mark against the company without knowing the whole story.

You can never be to certain what other people are dealing with outside of work. Sometimes, management knows things that they are not at liberty to share.

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Post by psychart »

What got me hooked on delicious back on the days was the addons, replace firefox bookmarks and well integrated add button, not like nowadays javascript bookmarklets opening a popup, im trying bookmarks.dev but dont see the point in using it how it is today.

And of course suggested tags.

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Post by zimmund »

JohnL4 wrote: post #132
conjectures wrote: post #60

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This made me nostalgic for RSS. Is anyone reviving that in a nice way?

Seriously, why does this question keep coming up? What am I missing?

Because it was convenient and powerful. Ever since Google Reader shut down I lost track of technology news. Yes, I can read the same sites/blogs I read before one by one, or subscribe to their newsletter, or follow them on Twitter... but it's not the same. And the tools that were available to replace Reader were always short in some aspect. Google Reader was killed in favor of Google+ (which failed horribly). After that RSS went downhill.

RSS readers were useful because you had all the news/posts in one place (instead of many browser tabs/newsletters/social accounts). You read, curated and shared from the same place, and you were able to easily choose what categories you wanted to read and when.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by Grumbledour »

mercer wrote: post #137
conjectures wrote: post #65

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It feels to me like some of that was having the same group of random strangers interacting. Rather than a constant flux of single comments.

Being able to (usually) personalize your comments I think also played a huge role in fostering community: avatars, taglines, signatures, etc. I wrote my own tagging system for HN and it's hard to describe how much it changed the experience for me. only usernames feels a bit like being in a community where everyone wears the same clothes, uses a vocoder, and covers up their faces. if you squint you might be able to ma…

This sound interesting. Do you have some more details or maybe even some code somewhere?

I would love to find ways to more easily identify users on here. The username, despite my best efforts, I mostly overlook or can't remember.

On Forums, with Avatar images, this used to be so much simpler.

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