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It's because a website requires an active will to be maintained online, while a movie, while released, just sit here on its medium.
by sametmax 10y ago
It's because a website requires an active will to be maintained online, while a movie, while released, just sit here on its medium.
- halotrope 10y agoIncredibly the more features and bloat one adds to the pages the less likely it is to stay functional/not be hacked etc. The first iterations of the Web where nearly perfect for information retrieval / linking of actual information. We spent the last 20 years adding videos and adding tons of crap that make the whole experience worse and are quite detrimental to the signal to noise ratio on most websites.
- Tempest1981 10y agoIt's all an effort to stimulate the reader's brain, to keep them engaged. First text, then images, now video. Next VR? Just like TV shows that use frequent animated overlays, and ever-changing camera angles. If things stop moving, we reach for our smartphones.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoAnd the effort is made to make people pay attention to crap. Just like TV shows, if website is not crap and has actually engaging content, users won't reach for smartphones.
- ant6n 10y agoI wonder what would be the best way to 'fix' that.
- resoluteteeth 10y agoIPFS https://ipfs.io/#why https://ipfs.io/#why
- booleandilemma 10y agoThis is one reason why the "programming is gardening, not engineering" metaphor is apt. http://www.artima.com/intv/gardenP.html http://www.artima.com/intv/gardenP.html
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- roywiggins 10y agoNot really true for old-enough movies. Old celluloid sits there and gets older and then bursts into flame.