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Everything seems to be moving towards gardens right now. Certainly not just Google. It's one of the things that depresses me most about tech right now.
by space_fountain 10y ago
Everything seems to be moving towards gardens right now. Certainly not just Google. It's one of the things that depresses me most about tech right now.
- swiley 10y agoThey where when AOL was big too.
- flukus 10y agoThe most depressing part of it is that the HN community don't seem to care and will actively cheer it in many cases (walled garden IRC and cloud in general). The only reason we have an open internet at all is because techies cared back in the day.
- ycmbntrthrwaway 10y agoInternet is a co-operative anarchy: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1726#page-5 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1726#page-5
- jdironman 10y agoI feel like this is only partially true. The majority of the articles, excluding those from large name corps, are simple loading pages. Using primarily the basic HTML and inline CSS. You do have the occasional blog page with some fancy touches, but the majority of the links that I click on while browsing HN has me questioning why, on sub par satellite internet, that HN and a majority of it's submitted posts work when Facebook, Google, Bing, etc.. does not. I feel it can. Everything just feels so bloated.