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I suspect you’re below 30 years of age? It’s quite interesting how quickly the memory of the internet has faded and this became the new normal. Sometimes it pay

by jiofih 6y ago

I suspect you’re below 30 years of age? It’s quite interesting how quickly the memory of the internet has faded and this became the new normal. Sometimes it pays to look a little deeper.

hombre_fatal 6y ago
Nope. Probably older than you, but I wouldn't use that to suggest I have better insights here than you. It's very popular on HN to yearn for the good old days of the internet instead of realizing that we're in them right now. More importantly, it's also likely you that's changing more than the internet. Maybe a decade or two ago you were looking for blogs while these days you just stop by Reddit and HN. And assume anything you don't find on Reddit/HN is probably dead or dying, you're not going to look. In fact I guarantee that's what going on most of the time in these posts. Kinda like how almost everyone reading this who used to use an RSS reader doesn't use one anymore. Not because RSS is dead or all of the blogs evaporated overnight. But because we just don't use the internet like that anymore. I think TFA is closer to a nostalgic obituary for how OP used to use the internet, and they remember those as good ol days, and they are mistaking this flicker of nostalgia for some overarching commentary on the New Internet.
- jiofih 6y ago
  > you just stop by Reddit and HN. And assume anything you don't find on Reddit/HN is probably dead or dying, you're not going to look So you saying that browsing reddit had replaced the “old ways”. That is exactly the problem, this was not an option. If those blogs or sites never appear in search engines, blogrolls are gone, archives have been deleted (eg Tumblr), delicious/stumbleupon/etc are gone, how do you find them? The internet and how content is distributed has changed a lot, it’s disingenuous to just dismiss it as nostalgia. On RSS, maybe you forgot that google mangled it in 2013? They shut down the most popular RSS reader without warning, and around the same time most large platforms stopped providing full content via feeds, to drive traffic to their site == ad revenue. RSS went from being a major source of traffic for blogs, to 1-2% of visitors. Of course people will stop using it if stops giving you content and your software is gone.

by jiofih 6y ago

I suspect you’re below 30 years of age? It’s quite interesting how quickly the memory of the internet has faded and this became the new normal. Sometimes it pays to look a little deeper.

hombre_fatal 6y ago

Nope. Probably older than you, but I wouldn't use that to suggest I have better insights here than you. It's very popular on HN to yearn for the good old days of the internet instead of realizing that we're in them right now. More importantly, it's also likely you that's changing more than the internet. Maybe a decade or two ago you were looking for blogs while these days you just stop by Reddit and HN. And assume anything you don't find on Reddit/HN is probably dead or dying, you're not going to look. In fact I guarantee that's what going on most of the time in these posts. Kinda like how almost everyone reading this who used to use an RSS reader doesn't use one anymore. Not because RSS is dead or all of the blogs evaporated overnight. But because we just don't use the internet like that anymore. I think TFA is closer to a nostalgic obituary for how OP used to use the internet, and they remember those as good ol days, and they are mistaking this flicker of nostalgia for some overarching commentary on the New Internet.

jiofih 6y ago
> you just stop by Reddit and HN. And assume anything you don't find on Reddit/HN is probably dead or dying, you're not going to look So you saying that browsing reddit had replaced the “old ways”. That is exactly the problem, this was not an option. If those blogs or sites never appear in search engines, blogrolls are gone, archives have been deleted (eg Tumblr), delicious/stumbleupon/etc are gone, how do you find them? The internet and how content is distributed has changed a lot, it’s disingenuous to just dismiss it as nostalgia. On RSS, maybe you forgot that google mangled it in 2013? They shut down the most popular RSS reader without warning, and around the same time most large platforms stopped providing full content via feeds, to drive traffic to their site == ad revenue. RSS went from being a major source of traffic for blogs, to 1-2% of visitors. Of course people will stop using it if stops giving you content and your software is gone.