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Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by xandrius »

cyberrock wrote: post #121

Maybe we're not going to the same places but "just having a website for rates and hours" is a SAT problem for salons/tattoo parlors. They need to know what you want and also show flattering photos of what they can do (and also comply with the growing mountain of privacy regulations), determine if you have any staff preferences and when staff is available for whatever you're requesting, and compute the available times…

I really thought the article was about personal websites like in the 90s, not bringing up hair salons as an example.

A hair salon needs a presence on Google maps with a bunch of reviews and their rates and that's it. Sure they don't own it but until that works it works.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by johnfn »

speedgoose wrote: post #140
johnfn wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The quote says "walled gardens owned by pedophilic fascist speed freaks". Not "owned by people close to", "owned by".

If one supports pedophiles and promote fascist speeches…

It is not "factual" to call these people pedophiles. Maybe you think they are bad for society. Maybe you think their websites are terrible. Maybe you don't like them. Those are all fine things, and you are free to say them! But to say they are factually a pedophile without evidence is not true. It only diminishes the quality of conversation.

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Post by trick-or-treat »

pacifika wrote: post #117
raincole wrote: post #97

It's great in principle. However, in the past decade I've never visited even one single restaurant's website. I just check menus and phone numbers on google map. I trust google map photos (not saying they're 100% reliable) much more than a site owned by the restaurant's owner anyway.

And where does Google map get it’s information?

A lot of it comes from street view. They literally drive by and take pictures of your store.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by zjp »

jowsie wrote: post #149
zjp wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the cost of having to say something humiliating is at least equal to the cost of the cookie, so I want it for free. Of course I had fun with my sister in law, even if I rolled my eyes at the business. That's beside the point. Making you say this stuff is a tiny, petty act of domination. Say it or you don't get the cookie, or you look unfun. Anyway, it's the same argument people have been having forever about…

What makes it humiliating? To me, it's just words, a little childish but still. I'm a Brit though, and I feel we have a much more lax attitude to swearing over here.

"A little childish"; Bob's your uncle.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by jrflowers »

trick-or-treat wrote: post #148
jrflowers wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do your friends and family know that calling a cookie a bitch is humiliating to you? That’s a pretty strong feeling, so I would be pretty mad if I communicated that and people close to me still dragged me to those places anyway. I wouldn’t be mad at the business, though, I’d be mad at the people that are knowingly disrespecting my boundaries.

When strangers do that it's disrespecting boundaries. When family does it it's giving you a hard time / teasing.

When a stranger drags you to a place that you don’t want to go that is kidnapping.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by trick-or-treat »

Lammy wrote: post #44

> Set up a website I dislike how this article handwaves its own recommendation away. The steps required to “have a fucking website” are so much more complex than they used to be. Mandatory† TLS is the biggest hurdle, because now there needs to be software running to renew your certs instead of just tossing some plain files up in a directory on an HTTP server that could run for years unattended. Gone are the days when…

Most deployment platforms will do this for you for free. You're talking about specifically unmanaged Wordpress hosting I think.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by bandrami »

janalsncm wrote: post #147
bandrami wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I directionally agree with this but, what do you do in three months when you change to the summer menu?

Take a picture of the menu, send through ChatGPT, read it over for mistakes, paste content into your website.

How do you "paste content into your website"? Did somebody build them a CMS?

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by ifh-hn »

Easier said than done, and completely ignoring the intricacies of "just have a website".

I can write the html, CSS, JavaScript needed for a website, I can spin up a local web server to serve these files, but setting up an internet facing website, no. No clue how to go about it, how to secure it, and how to maintain it.

Give me a step by step guide that is simple, and can ensure security and privacy, and I'll have a website. But until then I'll use what's convenient.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by nicbou »

I have two fucking websites. One I live from.

These days, it's pretty demoralising to run a website. Google AI overviews and LLMs have reduced traffic by over 60%, and that trend shows no sign of slowing down. These numbers are typical.

At the same time, the cost and difficulty has raised because of misbehaving AI crawlers and bots attacking every moving part. I'm glad I went with static sites and not WordPress.

So you need to work harder and harder for a dwindling audience, and the cost of keeping the lights on keeps going up.

I used to make websites for businesses, a bit over a decade ago. The job feels just as hard now as it was back then. One notable exception is caddy and automatic SSL.

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