Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[WTBOnlineFather]

They are also forcing channels to upload shorts because its now required for monetization to have a minimum ammount of hours watched in that format.

Is this real? I don't see any such thing yet, although I know jewgle rolls out these bullshit downgrade changes gradually by region or some other secret criterion.

I hate tik tok and i hate youtube's "we have tik tok at home" even more.

I wish these bargain bin tiktok ripoff services would at least try to make the functionality better, such as by NOT going out of their way to remove volume controls, a fullscreen option and more. Especially youtube which is pretty user-friendly, why do they think artificially gimping the format is a good idea? It's literally unwatchable on PC, I'm not gonna turn down my system volume by 80% and bring a microscope to the screen just to watch a glorified tiktok video.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Is this real? I don't see any such thing yet, although I know jewgle rolls out these bullshit downgrade changes gradually by region or some other secret criterion.

Looked it up. I may have got it wrong. It seems its "either of" instead of both when it comes to hours watched versus short views.

I wish these bargain bin tiktok ripoff services would at least try to make the functionality better, such as by NOT going out of their way to remove volume controls, a fullscreen option and more. Especially youtube which is pretty user-friendly, why do they think artificially gimping the format is a good idea? It's literally unwatchable on PC, I'm not gonna turn down my system volume by 80% and bring a microscope to the screen just to watch a glorified tiktok video.

trying to capitalize on ADHD. You can't even scroll in the video, its the most useless format ever.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

Looked it up. I may have got it wrong. It seems its "either of" instead of both when it comes to hours watched versus short views.

Yeah that's been the case for a while. You essentially get to pick whether you want to focus on normal videos or shorts to first reach monetization.

 

[seri0us]

Is this real? I don't see any such thing yet, although I know jewgle rolls out these bullshit downgrade changes gradually by region or some other secret criterion.

*Poogle

It was founded by Jews and the chairman of YT was Jewish for a while but it's simply Indians now

 

[notafloridian]

Typical story: A human being at Google finally makes a decision about something and we're all worse off for it.

They'll eventually realize that short-form content has become a completely unprofitable venture and shelve the format. ByteDance presumably got away with it due to being propped up by Chinamen funny money. They had a reported operating loss of over $7 billion dollars in 2021 and somehow still kept the lights on during that time.

 

[xn--mck1c]

continuous nagging and irritation

Check the "Annoyances" section of your Ublock Origin filters, a few new ones got added over the years, with lists getting rid of:

• Cookie permissions
• Newsletter requests
• Popup chat widgets
• "Notifications" and overlays
• Social share buttons

 

[CashMoney!]

I'm training to be a developer and the current stack I'm used to working with is bloated shit. A simple node app containing an html page and an express server is enormous. My code folder is over a gigabyte with the most minor stuff in it. I look at frameworks like react and it's just absolutely unstable bullshit and I avoid it like the plague if I can. There's plenty of react jobs but I am certain I do not want to work with it. Static Web pages should make a comeback. Nobody needs all of this rubbish to build a fucking website.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I'm training to be a developer and the current stack I'm used to working with is bloated shit. A simple node app containing an html page and an express server is enormous. My code folder is over a gigabyte with the most minor stuff in it. I look at frameworks like react and it's just absolutely unstable bullshit and I avoid it like the plague if I can. There's plenty of react jobs but I am certain I do not want to work with it. Static Web pages should make a comeback. Nobody needs all of this rubbish to build a fucking website.

If you think React is bad, stay the hell away from Angular.

That said, your code folder is big because it's got the entire development environment in it. It will shrink significantly once you build your production version; typically in the region of 50-60%, or even more if you're not using many of the "features" that come with the default express-react environment. It's also not going to grow significantly more than that 1gb while you're working, as most of your work will be small javascript or typescript files. Also, using typescript adds a lot of the apparent bloat due to all the definitions and ancillary files that come along with it. All of that disappears in production.

 

[Overly Serious]

I'm training to be a developer and the current stack I'm used to working with is bloated shit. A simple node app containing an html page and an express server is enormous. My code folder is over a gigabyte with the most minor stuff in it. I look at frameworks like react and it's just absolutely unstable bullshit and I avoid it like the plague if I can. There's plenty of react jobs but I am certain I do not want to work with it. Static Web pages should make a comeback. Nobody needs all of this rubbish to build a fucking website.

It's been a joke amongst us older types for a long time. Unfortunately newer generations just don't see the problem. Hardware power has outpaced Software requirements. So why make efficient code? Throw everything at it and the build process will strip out what it doesn't need (theoretically. The result is still bloated of course compared to what you mean.)

FWIW, I find VueJS nicer than React though it is less commonly supported.

 

[Fields Of Rye]

Computer hardware doesn't seem to be changing as much anymore, but software seems to be growing ever more bloated.

Even those "verify you are human" Cloudflare pages seem to be requiring later browsers to use now.

Failed a dollar store IQ test required for my job application because it told me everything was working and my browser was clear, I couldn’t pause or leave until I was done, and I immediately got a big fat “an error has occurred, please use a different browser” message with a timer counting down

Of course, copy and pasting the link into another browser got my account flagged for cheating and my test ended because it detected a second session or something.

Just makes me think of how many plug and play systems must have been slotted in there and never checked or updated. It’s insane

 

[ToroidalBoat]

For some reason translate sites (on at least Google and Yandex) can't translate websites anymore, so if I want to translate non-English pages, I gotta copy and paste text.

So why make efficient code?

It’s insane.

Seems coding is getting more "spaghetti code" and bloated.

Very different from the times when RAM was really limited.

 

[sweater_supremacy]

At least use yandex, startpage or duckduckgo. Google doesn't return any useful results unless you let them track you. Open up a private browser and search something that isn't a normie search and see how garbage it really is.


Isn't hard to sell you something if the salesman follows you everywhere you go, including the bedroom and the toilet.

it rarely returns anything useful regardless because its dogshit algorithm tries to assume what you REALLY meant

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Reddit changed the logo to be maybe kind of annoying. And as I mentioned earlier, they made it so trying to view just an image on the site redirects to a page with it.

 

[TheHarbinger]

Reddit changed the logo to be maybe kind of annoying.

Companies do this all of the time. They change their logos and brands constantly. Tech companies will change their desktop and shortcut icons just to force change on the user. Or change their entire UI or keyboard shortcuts around to basically harass users as a power move.

And as I mentioned earlier, they made it so trying to view just an image on the site redirects to a page with it.

This is part of the eventual removal of old.reddit and pushing users into the new version. The old version of reddit had it so that you could view an image by itself. The new version has a wraparound that can load advertisements or sponsored/astroturfed content or even things like content warnings.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Tech companies will change their desktop and shortcut icons just to force change on the user.

When and if that BS is downloaded to and changes stuff on my device, that's really BS.

This is part of the eventual removal of old.reddit and pushing users into the new version.

Old Reddit looks better and is easier to read stuff on. New Reddit has that "smartphone-ish" look to it. And on new Reddit, replies may have to be clicked on to be seen.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

Companies do this all of the time. They change their logos and brands constantly. Tech companies will change their desktop and shortcut icons just to force change on the user.

The new logo is super disgusting though. Both the icon and the shitty font they chose. It looks almost exactly like the atrocious new discord logo that got released a year or so back.

This is part of the eventual removal of old.reddit and pushing users into the new version.

The day they remove old.reddit is the day I stop using reddit for good. It's already annoying to have to manually rewrite the URL when you try to access any SFW sub that's marked 18+ for some bullshit reason and get prompted to log in.

When and if that BS is downloaded to and changes stuff on my device, that's really BS.

If you were a MS teams user during the early days of coof lockdowns, they would introduce some bullshit UI change literally every week. Not adding features mind you, just moving icons and buttons around, adding dropdown menus to hide shit that was previously accessible via a single click, just the most random and pointless changes. It drove me up a fucking wall. I still don't know if it was supposed to be some weird psyop like the CIA repainting the walls in your house at night or what the hell the point of that was.

 

[Flabba Wabba Jabba]

Also fuck the trillion automated channels that pop up in those awful recommendations the algorithm makes. Now they put channels with little or no views in your timeline and most of those are just AI trash with robot voices reading chatgtp bullshit. Either that of tranny vtubers , seeing V-tubers on my timelines pisses me off a lot and they keep coming back no matter how much i click "i am not interested"

Yeah I've been paying attention to the sheer number of random videos with like 24-50 views appearing in my feed. At least back in the day it was aspiring YouTubers with cool shit, whereas now it's just like AI slop about the next crypto pump or automated videos that mass scrape YouTube shorts content and reupload them in long format compilations.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

New minor crappy change: In Google Earth (browser version), double clicking on the compass no longer resets the view to face north. Now one has to bring up this menu to reset the view. Also it seems to run a little slower or with less of a framerate, even though it used to work faster and smoother on the same system. It's sucking more.

 

[sweater_supremacy]

https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/83127739

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Man I miss sites looking like this. If anything, one of these days I might just set up my own Neocities page.

Didn't know about this one, should come in handy.

Chad's Guide to Starting Your Own Website – LandChad.net

landchad.net

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A few more reference sites:

1MB Club

An exclusive membership for web pages weighing less than 1 megabyte.

1mb.club

Webring

webring.xxiivv.com

Neocities

Neocities is the new Geocities. Create your own free home page, and do whatever you want with it.

neocities.org

Yes I too miss whenever websites were formatted to take advantage of the screen real-estate on desktop computers, instead of compressing all of the content to a strip down the middle like they were designed only to look good on smartphones

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Tried to watch a livestream on Twitch, but had to refresh 3 times because of BS unskippable ads that uBlock somehow could not block.