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Who in tech do you hold up as an ideal persona? I'm not defending what happened to you. It's surprising to me that even someone like Jimmy Wales, who pioneered the most impactful knowledge-sharing project in the world, is vilified by some people.
For me it is mjg59 and maybe Miguel de Icaza, also maybe Linus Torvalds
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If it was trivially possible, Firefox would already be doing it. But there's always an arms race with stuff like this. Our robot butler would be able to figure out how to parse the web today, but the advertisers would completely change the structure of pages tomorrow. Facebook used to have their ads wrapped in ` `. Now, they're buried a thousand divs deeps, and the ads and content both have nonsensical, non-semantic…
I also noticed super deep div structure, and weird random class names. I assume it's to prevent automation and scraping. They're really hard to run querySelector against.
But then I remember I often implement those features as a developer. And sometimes, when I ask the marketing people or product manager, even they look to think it's a terrible idea. They are also forced to release something BS but can increase some KPI.
Off topic, but I've never seen mastodon linked like this before on HN. Interesting this this might've normally been a link to a tweet.
I have a bad feeling about these "invite only" servers though. They are remaking the blue checkmarks of twitter in an even less-transparent way.
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I don't think tech workers are making barely livable incomes.
Many of our parents had better lives overall despite less education, fewer hours worked, shorter commuting distance, etc. Yes, tech is better than most other jobs, but most tech jobs just give you the middle class life many people had 20-30 years ago (aside from the tech gadgets that didn’t exist 20-30 years ago that even the poor have now). In terms of large expenses and free time rather than gadgets, we’re no bette…
I just don't waste my money on stupid things like paying other people to make my sandwiches and drinks, or gadgets that are priced as 10x what they cost to make.
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Wikia was never actually good, but they were never this bad , as when they sold out to some capital and start squeezing every penny from every pixel on the screen. Right now, fandom.com is basically unusable. Unfortunately, as some info that is there is nowhere else.
Not just news sites, either. A lot of fandom wikis run on the same platform, fandom.com. That site is a pain in the absolute fucking ass to use on any mobile device, specifically because of the autoplaying video that takes up half the screen on every page load . Weirdly, desktop is fine; no autoplaying videos or any such nonsense. It's only on mobile that Fandom has seemingly made a deliberate effort to make the user…
If that's your norm on TV, sure, why wouldn't a web page work like that? It baffles me just like OP, but no more than it does on television programmes.
Not just news sites, either. A lot of fandom wikis run on the same platform, fandom.com. That site is a pain in the absolute fucking ass to use on any mobile device, specifically because of the autoplaying video that takes up half the screen on every page load . Weirdly, desktop is fine; no autoplaying videos or any such nonsense. It's only on mobile that Fandom has seemingly made a deliberate effort to make the user…
Isn't most (all?) of the content on fandom.com under a Creative Commons license? Is there anything stopping someone from scraping all the content and forking the projects, giving it a more humane and user-friendly interface?
Forking the content itself is easy but good luck beating Fandom on a search page.
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> For a lot of people 10 dollars a month isn't cheap. I'm aware of this, but you need to keep in mind that we were one of the largest wikis on Wikia (in the top 30 iirc). That's the only reason it cost $10/month. Most of the wikis on Wikia were tiny, got small traffic, and could have probably been hosted with mine on my VM without even affecting mine.
The last metric that I calculated to host a small wiki on Gamepedia was about $3 USD per month. It is probably a bit higher than that now. That included costs for hosting through AWS next to large wikis like Minecraft Wiki that would easily be a large majority of the monthly costs.(Game updates would vastly skew the monthly costs for each of the large wikis.)