Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
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Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
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Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#2Is there a word for things that are both hilarious and tragic? I laughed out loud multiple times. Kudos to the author for making such a depressing topic so hysterical.
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#3Is there a word for things that are both hilarious and tragic? I laughed out loud multiple times. Kudos to the author for making such a depressing topic so hysterical.
> Is there a word for things that are both hilarious and tragic?
Yes, tragicomic.
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
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Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#5Is there a word for things that are both hilarious and tragic? I laughed out loud multiple times. Kudos to the author for making such a depressing topic so hysterical.
> Is there a word for things that are both hilarious and tragic? Yes, tragicomic. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tragicomic
There’s a song for that, too. Tragic Comic by Extreme. https://youtu.be/_44jokODfzM
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#6Is there a word for things that are both hilarious and tragic? I laughed out loud multiple times. Kudos to the author for making such a depressing topic so hysterical.
might not be exactly what you're thinking, but schadenfreude
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#7“a link to what the site looked like last week, before Google made me make it worse on purpose to make money.”
Sounds like you sold out. You should own up to your agency in the matter.
They made me make it worse so I could make more money - it’s like you think you are under unique pressure to pay bills, thus excusing you, but everyone else in the world shouldn’t be excused.
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#8I just see:
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Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#9I ran into this as well about 2 years ago. I thought it’d be cool to create a site that’d algorithmically estimate the snowpack for mountains based on observations and elevation. It was a very rough estimate, but still better than using 1 square mile observations, which obviously could vary by 10k+ feet of elevation.
When I tried putting a few Google Ads on it to pay the hosting costs, it rejected it until I added long-form descriptions of the content. So instead of a useful chart and table, I ended up having long-winded descriptions of the location, algorithm, search, elevation’s effect on snowpack, and all that.
It was so fucking stupid I just up and deleted the whole project and never looked back. I’m sure I could have made the tool better and charged a subscription or something if it was actually useful, but it just kind of made me jaded on the modern web. I gave up and went hiking.
Re: Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
#10Now I want Apple Crisp