I agree, but you only need a few hundred active users to make a decent online community. You don't need any kind of mass adoption. The number of people online posting shit in 2000 when the internet was really fucking cool was a tiny tiny fraction of the number of people who are online now. You could have a lot of fun with like 50 people making a webring and linking to each other's sites.
But you can't make lots of money on a platform with just a few hundred users.
Social media really changed the whole dynamic of starting online communities because you have to fight to network yourself on someone else's platform. People don't just open up the browser and type in to go to "yourhobby dot com" or "hobby IRC" or to hobby forums anymore. Experienced web users might still actively seek out web forums and IRCs. Sadly, most people today, especially zoomers, use whatever the App Store serves up.
The hardware isn't the issue, though; it's all the javascript running the chat that causes the heavy load and lagging. near as I can tell it's the combination of constant polling (unavoidable if you don't want to use memesockets) and a memory leak somewhere, which bogs the browser down to the point that sitting on the front page sometimes sends my computer into orbit with how fast its fans are spinning. It's a significant problem in firefox, but chomium-based browsers also suffer a heavy load wherever the chat is embedded.
Who gives a shit? If I set up a BBS telnet server in my basement on old hardware and collect a dozen people to play Red Dragon and shit post with and we're having fun and it costs me $10 a month to keep it going, does it matter? Clearly people do it because these communities exist.
Sadly I agree to some extent. There are people willing to do this shit for free, but not as many as there were 20 years ago.
I don't use social media and I'm still on maybe a half dozen of not-for-profit online communities with a small handful of users. I don't disagree that most people aren't on them and aren't going to flock to them, but there are functioning healthy communities kicking around and it's still possible to build them.
That only annoys when the "related" is a section that breaks up the actual search results on youtube.
I actually laughed out loud when it asked if I wanted to close the page. Well done, dev.
Josh wrote that chat function. I always knew he was a soydev
Which makes the more interesting subs incredibly repetitive. Meme subs especially but even ones like r/unresolvedmysteries which have the same stories repeated every couple of days. Karmawhoring redditors just post the same shit over and over again.OneMillionRPM said:
I've seen other XenForo sites with that same chat function. XenForo itself feels so bloated.
How DO I get ants out of my car? Asking for a friend.
I am guessing that is from all the silly animations and hovering buttons. If you look at myBB or phpBB it's so much faster because it is much more pure HTML.
Greater information density too which would be nice on a site like KF where active threads can jump 50+ pages overnight. Viewing KF in Seamonkey locks up for seconds just rendering.
Even Unresolved Mysteries started to have dumb shit like many of the threads with political derails, naturally excused if its Herr Drumpf bashing. That was maybe the last serious reddit I still read somewhat regularly until that trend started to increase. Back when forums were the norm for that kind of thing, that sort of political derail would get you banned 2 seconds flat.
My internet photo gallery is slowly getting RUINED because theres a load of web pees in there now
Google proposed it as a way to get web pages to load faster since the images are something like 24% smaller for the same perceptual quality. This would have been helpful for web 1.0 and people had dial-up, but web pages load fucking fast enough with JPG, PNG, & GIF these days. Even my phone can download shit fast enough for image sizes to be irrelevant.
