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Are losing battles still worth fighting? Personally I believe yes, because there are still those that benefit in the interim. Compare that to not bothering to

• dredmorbius 5y ago
  There's a good recent School of Life video on rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic (Alain defends the practice). There's also performing maintenance to defer the inevitable. I'm generally in favour of that. But if you're getting exercised and emotional over something that simply and repeatedly proves not to work ... and there's some specific goal for that behaviour ... which can be more readily achieved by other means ... then I'd strongly suggest bailing on that fight. TBL got some things right about the Web. He had a specific purpose in mind. The Web has (IMO very much for the worse) moved beyond that. As I see it: - The goal behind the advice is to create a long-term useful addressable archive of online content. - The method advised ... has failed in this. Spectacularly. - Other methods exist. They are being used, and work reasonably well. - At some point you cut your losses. That said, I'm cutting mine in this thread. Cheers.
  • Andrex 5y ago
    Even though you cut your losses, I wanted to thank you for this comment. I sincerely appreciate the reading/watching material.