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Things i tried to keep using way longer than most: -windows 7 (upgraded only for widi support - and i miss them) - skype (i d never upgrade if i could) - pho

Things i tried to keep using way longer than most: -windows 7 (upgraded only for widi support - and i miss them) - skype (i d never upgrade if i could) - photoshop standalone (still use it) - office 2007 ( still use it) - dropbox (no option there) - old reddit - iphone 6 - jquery (plan to avoid npm until it dies of natural causes) - windows movie maker / photos In fact it s getting harder to think of things that are clearly better. Not only are newer versions slower, they re lacking features that were working just fine. Something happened in the past 4 years and suddenly worse became cool again. There s def a worrying trend. My theory: the mobilification of everything is destroying tech. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy: make everything mobile-friendly so more people switch to mobile-only (why?). Second, mobile has terrible user feedback mechanisms. It's too burdensome to send feedback and the apps are so limited that there's physically no space for asking to add new features on the screen. That's why it's largely desktop apps that are affected - not server apps. (Ironically, table-based HN has the best responsive behavior for reading text on mobile than any "responsive" site).

MrGilbert 7y ago
> (Ironically, table-based HN has the best responsive behavior for reading text on mobile than any "responsive" site). Until you have a certain nesting depth of comments, then they get condensed pretty hard.
- buboard 7y ago
  tilt your phone sideways. The thing i like about tables is you can zoom out and see the whole map of comments, instead of re-rendering a responsive site 10 times and losing my eye's cursor. That's a smarter way to use the zoom gesture
oneeyedpigeon 7y ago
Only anecdotal, but I suspect you didn't keep using old.reddit.com longer than most (of the hold-outs that ever did).
- buboard 7y ago
  true. and only a few months ago, reddit was trying to force us to the new system by conveniently "forgetting" our saved setting
  - oneeyedpigeon 7y ago
    OK, this is embarrassing (†) but I didn't even realise there was an option other than manually editing the url to "old." :-| Your comment has probably done more for my productivity today than anything else that will happen — thanks! (†) I'd like to put it down to only having tried it during that period of time you're referring to, so I will :)
    - Kliment 7y ago
      There is a firefox extension that automatically redirects all reddit urls to old-dot
    - skinnymuch 7y ago
      I enjoy manually putting the old in Reddit url. It’s rare for me to need Reddit for actual productive needs and when I do, it’s usually going to a shorter thread of comments where I’m fine using the bad new interface in a pinch.
epidemian 7y ago
> - old reddit I use this extension and it's super useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... The new site is way way slower to load, which i can notice immediately if i open it on a browser that doesn't have the extension installed :/
- purple_ducks 7y ago
  If you have an a/c, you can just opt out from using new under https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ https://www.reddit.com/prefs/
  - thih9 7y ago
    This requires you to be logged in all the time though. Some people like to avoid that.
  - throwaway35784 7y ago
    Does anyone like the new site? Why don't they just revert already?
    - buboard 7y ago
      Would you revert after such a momentous change? I think they're waiting for something exceptional to happen (e.g. another acquisition) so that the reversal is buried under more important news.
Crinus 7y ago
- Paint Shop Pro 7 (the last good version and one of the easiest and snappiest image editors IMO)
24gttghh 7y ago
>- office 2007 Mon dieu. What witchcraft have you invoked to keep that working for so long? Surely not on the same computer for all these years? I feel like MS Office was total garbage until they hit v2013.
- buboard 7y ago
  Hmm , i just checked my version,yes it's 2007. I use it often and even share version-tracked documents with others back and forth for years. Mendeley works, everything else works. Why change ?
tomjen3 7y ago
I am still using old.reddit.com Works very well with my RSS reader.
thiht 7y ago
> Ironically, table-based HN has the best responsive behavior for reading text on mobile than any "responsive" site No it doesn't, HN literally sucks on mobile. From the top of my head: - On the front page I always click the stories title when I want to click on the "xxx comments" link - When reading comments, it's impossible to use the tiny [-] buttons to collapse threads - "code" blocks are still broken
- buboard 7y ago
  i agree about the typography but that wouldn't be fixed if the site was responsive
- 29083011397778 7y ago
  The first two are some of the best things about browsing the site on a BlackBerry with Firefox and Vimium: clicking links are only a keyboard shortcut away. Same goes for sites that don't scale nicely and have interfaces designed for desktop. "Clicking" links is always easy.

MrGilbert 7y ago

> (Ironically, table-based HN has the best responsive behavior for reading text on mobile than any "responsive" site). Until you have a certain nesting depth of comments, then they get condensed pretty hard.

buboard 7y ago
tilt your phone sideways. The thing i like about tables is you can zoom out and see the whole map of comments, instead of re-rendering a responsive site 10 times and losing my eye's cursor. That's a smarter way to use the zoom gesture

oneeyedpigeon 7y ago

Only anecdotal, but I suspect you didn't keep using old.reddit.com longer than most (of the hold-outs that ever did).

buboard 7y ago
true. and only a few months ago, reddit was trying to force us to the new system by conveniently "forgetting" our saved setting
- oneeyedpigeon 7y ago
  OK, this is embarrassing (†) but I didn't even realise there was an option other than manually editing the url to "old." :-| Your comment has probably done more for my productivity today than anything else that will happen — thanks! (†) I'd like to put it down to only having tried it during that period of time you're referring to, so I will :)
  - Kliment 7y ago
    There is a firefox extension that automatically redirects all reddit urls to old-dot
  - skinnymuch 7y ago
    I enjoy manually putting the old in Reddit url. It’s rare for me to need Reddit for actual productive needs and when I do, it’s usually going to a shorter thread of comments where I’m fine using the bad new interface in a pinch.

epidemian 7y ago

> - old reddit I use this extension and it's super useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... The new site is way way slower to load, which i can notice immediately if i open it on a browser that doesn't have the extension installed :/

purple_ducks 7y ago
If you have an a/c, you can just opt out from using new under https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ https://www.reddit.com/prefs/
- thih9 7y ago
  This requires you to be logged in all the time though. Some people like to avoid that.
- throwaway35784 7y ago
  Does anyone like the new site? Why don't they just revert already?
  - buboard 7y ago
    Would you revert after such a momentous change? I think they're waiting for something exceptional to happen (e.g. another acquisition) so that the reversal is buried under more important news.

Crinus 7y ago

- Paint Shop Pro 7 (the last good version and one of the easiest and snappiest image editors IMO)

24gttghh 7y ago

>- office 2007 Mon dieu. What witchcraft have you invoked to keep that working for so long? Surely not on the same computer for all these years? I feel like MS Office was total garbage until they hit v2013.

buboard 7y ago
Hmm , i just checked my version,yes it's 2007. I use it often and even share version-tracked documents with others back and forth for years. Mendeley works, everything else works. Why change ?

tomjen3 7y ago

I am still using old.reddit.com Works very well with my RSS reader.

thiht 7y ago

> Ironically, table-based HN has the best responsive behavior for reading text on mobile than any "responsive" site No it doesn't, HN literally sucks on mobile. From the top of my head: - On the front page I always click the stories title when I want to click on the "xxx comments" link - When reading comments, it's impossible to use the tiny [-] buttons to collapse threads - "code" blocks are still broken

buboard 7y ago
i agree about the typography but that wouldn't be fixed if the site was responsive
29083011397778 7y ago
The first two are some of the best things about browsing the site on a BlackBerry with Firefox and Vimium: clicking links are only a keyboard shortcut away. Same goes for sites that don't scale nicely and have interfaces designed for desktop. "Clicking" links is always easy.