Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[Pig Boss]

>I need a picture real quick for a montage
>right click to save the picture
>it's webp
Well, it can always get worse, like a link to Pinterest.

There's an extension called "Save Image As PNG", it's pretty handy.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

so that Fandom site is getting worse. Sometimes it doesn't even work right on a version of Firefox that's just a year or 2 behind. Like images don't show up and clicking on a thumbnail just reopens the article, or that wide display button doesn't work. Yet sites from the late '90s could display a gallery of thumbnails and had content not squished in. What kind of hipster BS JS does it use where only the very latest browser can display it?

I'm so, so fucking sick of this shit, loading a webpage, and the content just isn't there. Was it ever there? Is it still loading? Will it ever load?

 

[ditto]

Do you have an example? The "Open Image in New Tab" opens the link to whatever image is being rendered on the page. So, if the link to the thumbnail is present, then you'll get the thumbnail.

Google Image Search results. Sometimes it will show the full image but right-click preview shows a postage-stamp preview. Probably due to whatever fuckey progressive loading Google is doing.

We used to laugh at websites that disabled right-click but now big tech covers everything in hidden divs to prevent just that.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I'm so, so fucking sick of this shit, loading a webpage, and the content just isn't there.

progressive

Looks like "progress" is "decay" or "deteriorate" in soyspeak.

 

[Delta Integrale]

Google Image Search results. Sometimes it will show the full image but right-click preview shows a postage-stamp preview. Probably due to whatever fuckey progressive loading Google is doing.

We used to laugh at websites that disabled right-click but now big tech covers everything in hidden divs to prevent just that.

Google deliberately fucked with their image search. There's a way to get to the main image but it's convoluted. Try this add-on:

GitHub - devunt/make-gis-great-again: This web extension adds back "View Image" button to Google Image Search results.

This web extension adds back "View Image" button to Google Image Search results. - GitHub - devunt/make-gis-great-again: This web extension adds back "View Image" button to Goog...

github.com

 

[lemonsolebrother]

Ive found 90% of the time the easiest way to grab an image is to use snipping tool/ screenshot

 

[Kane Lives]

>I need a picture real quick for a montage
>right click to save the picture
>it's webp
Well, it can always get worse, like a link to Pinterest.

I want to go up to the asshole who suggested this idea, and personally wring his neck until he deletes the entire format from Chrom(ium)e.

Nobody wants webp, fucking nobody uses it.

EDIT: it would be one thing if .webp was merely the default option. Chromium based browsers straight up just disallows you from saving it in anything other than webp.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

More websites seems to be pointlessly switching over to some new standards that a browser from just 1 or 2 years ago may not handle. I already mentioned Fandom, but at least the preferences in Trending - Piped and viewing a gallery in Giant Bomb don't work in a version of Firefox from just 1-2 years ago. What's the point if what worked before was already "smartphone-y" and used hipster JS?

(turning page style off can bypass the BS though)

 

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EDIT: it would be one thing if .webp was merely the default option. Chromium based browsers straight up just disallows you from saving it in anything other than webp.

This isn't even remotely true. Blame Cloudflare head faggot Matthew Prince for approving the 'Polish' option on Cloudflare that lets websites running shit tier CMS's just serve up 4K jpegs and have Cloudflare automatically convert them into more appropriately sized WEBPs. This is what has spread WEBPs everywhere. Of course, even non-Cloudflare sites will be more likely to serve WEBPs to browsers passing Chrome-based useragents as Google's Chrome is where the 'standard' originated.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

You must be really behind because that design has been out for ages. Luckily Firefox still supports CSS customization for its UI so somebody has made a stylesheet that restores the old look: https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix (you'll want the "Photon" version)

What? I looked at the screenshots and my firefox looks like what I assume is the "after" images. I'm on the latest version.

Do you have an example? The "Open Image in New Tab" opens the link to whatever image is being rendered on the page. So, if the link to the thumbnail is present, then you'll get the thumbnail.

The bait and switch sounds familiar.
Facebook is running the scam where they present a picture as highres but it is actually a thumbnail. This is VERY obvious though because it looks like a stretched out thumbnail.
I think images that are hosted on tumblr opens in an actual tumblr window when opening a GIS image in a new tab. Might be some other dead and gay site though.

It was maybe two months ago I last posted about IMDB becoming worse. I have an update on that: IMDB has become much worse since that post.
Here's the new experience:

It's not everywhere yet but the new style is spreading. When it finally loaded it was a Batman article and something about the Halloween movie, completely unrelated to the actor I was viewing. More than a page down was the actors credits.

 

[Distended Gunt]

What? I looked at the screenshots and my firefox looks like what I assume is the "after" images. I'm on the latest version.

I'm confused. Did you apply the guy's CSS and it didn't make any difference? That is the new design, it's called "Proton" (not to be confused with the old UI, Photon, WTF Mozilla) and they crapped it out in Firefox 89 with an option to go to the old UI, which was completely removed in 91. I guess @ToroidalBoat is using Firefox ESR and just got caught up with drama from 2021.

Edit: From the GitHub

Top row is Photon, middle is Proton and bottom is this guy's own design, Lepton.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I'm confused. Did you apply the guy's CSS and it didn't make any difference? That is the new design, it's called "Proton" (not to be confused with the old UI, Photon, WTF Mozilla) and they crapped it out in Firefox 89 with an option to go to the old UI, which was completely removed in 91. I guess @ToroidalBoat is using Firefox ESR and just got caught up with drama from 2021.

Edit: From the GitHub
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Top row is Photon, middle is Proton and bottom is this guy's own design, Lepton.

Ooh, now I get it. There's a little line. Took me a minute.

You have to admit that it takes effort to notice the differences in things like this:

 

[Flatline]

View attachment 4180287

I'm in this photo, and I don't like it.

 

[Distended Gunt]

You have to admit that it takes effort to notice the differences in things like this:

The power of autism.

 

[Diabetical Materialism]

The infinitely scrolling feed and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Originally implemented for sites that have rely on frequent quick updates like facebook and twitter it has invaded nearly every website regardless of where it makes sense. This has turned the internet into a fleeting stream of impermanent bullshit where finding anything older than a few hours is impossible. Notice how on a forum posts are logically organized into pages with a number that can easily be located and accessed. Now compare that to finding a youtube video in someones channel you distinctly remember them uploading 2 or 3 years ago. It's designed to waste your time and makes things either difficult or impossible to find. Literally hostile architecture.

 

[seri0us]

The infinitely scrolling feed and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Originally implemented for sites that have rely on frequent quick updates like facebook and twitter it has invaded nearly every website regardless of where it makes sense. This has turned the internet into a fleeting stream of impermanent bullshit where finding anything older than a few hours is impossible. Notice how on a forum posts are logically organized into pages with a number that can easily be located and accessed. Now compare that to finding a youtube video in someones channel you distinctly remember them uploading 2 or 3 years ago. It's designed to waste your time and makes things either difficult or impossible to find. Literally hostile architecture.

Ah, the good ol' infinite scroll traps me when someone links to an album of something they did on Imgur and after seeing the whole thing I keep scrolling and have to see other posts. A good chunk of them still are ancient meme templates used to quickly describe their crybaby situation and the "caption" being some mountain of text all about it.

 

[Enig]

The infinitely scrolling feed and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Originally implemented for sites that have rely on frequent quick updates like facebook and twitter it has invaded nearly every website regardless of where it makes sense. This has turned the internet into a fleeting stream of impermanent bullshit where finding anything older than a few hours is impossible. Notice how on a forum posts are logically organized into pages with a number that can easily be located and accessed. Now compare that to finding a youtube video in someones channel you distinctly remember them uploading 2 or 3 years ago. It's designed to waste your time and makes things either difficult or impossible to find. Literally hostile architecture.

The only time infinite scroll has been rewarding to me so far is before Deviantart fucked the site's theming up and you could click to see the related images on something, hold page down and wind up getting a mining pit of deranged crap for hours or even entire days until the algo finally broke down and started handing out long abandoned fanfic chapters and random account stamps.

 

[HRT Heisenberg]

The infinitely scrolling feed and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Originally implemented for sites that have rely on frequent quick updates like facebook and twitter it has invaded nearly every website regardless of where it makes sense. This has turned the internet into a fleeting stream of impermanent bullshit where finding anything older than a few hours is impossible. Notice how on a forum posts are logically organized into pages with a number that can easily be located and accessed. Now compare that to finding a youtube video in someones channel you distinctly remember them uploading 2 or 3 years ago. It's designed to waste your time and makes things either difficult or impossible to find. Literally hostile architecture.

It's basically for this sole reason my Internet usage has diminished to only Kiwifarms and Youtube through Newpipe. Newpipe's great in how it allows me to instantly get a chronological order of channel uploads and a subscription box that doesn't remove random videos because some retarded machine decided I wouldn't like the video in advance. Sometimes I go back to Youtube on a web browser and I am shocked how they constantly make it harder and harder to both find anything in both the UI and pruning search results down to 6 videos before they just start endlessly recommending videos at best tangentially related to my query.

Frontends for websites like Twitter, Youtube, Reddit (if Reveddit counts) are pretty much necessary if you want to add back in the basic search functionality in a website or see some random content that was flagged as 18+ for no reason and now you gotta log in to their shitty service. It's crazy to think that a lot of developers are now (rightfully so) looking to solve problems caused by bigger websites rather than making something to solve a non-artificial problem.

 

[ditto]

Frontends for websites like Twitter, Youtube, Reddit (if Reveddit counts) are pretty much necessary if you want to add back in the basic search functionality in a website or see some random content that was flagged as 18+ for no reason and now you gotta log in to their shitty service.

This plus a Tampermonkey script to automatically redirect to them. I've long since given up contributing to anything but a couple of forums, so that read-only front ends are fine.

 

[Stasi]

Newpipe

YouTube keep fucking with their website and annoyingly it keeps messing up newpipe.

At some point recently they decided to split up channels into videos, live and shorts. Newpipe will only show the video feed so some of the channels I follow which basically only do live streams don't show up on newpipe because I guess the VODs are under the live section on YouTube. I'm assuming there will be an update to fix it on newpipe but still annoying. Not the first time YouTube's retarded updates broke newpipe.