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I never heard of Everything2. Regretfully because it seems great. I see it has new articles and Wikipedia lists it as active though everybody here refers to it
by pluijzer 4y ago
I never heard of Everything2. Regretfully because it seems great. I see it has new articles and Wikipedia lists it as active though everybody here refers to it in the past tense. Why is that?
- wging 4y agoHere’s one take: https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1551144296014807040 https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1551144296014807040
- at_a_remove 4y agoWell, it was originally very experimental and a Slashdot project -- short short stories, diary entries, poems, opinions, film reviews, whatever goes. Then someone got the bright idea that the place should be factual, and there was a big push for it to be real and grounded and not so artsy. Then Wikipedia came along and ate. their. lunch. The experimental folks already lit off for greener pastures, and others had been driven off by "XP Pack Rape," a practice as charming as its name, wherein a user would be targeted and just sort of ... de-karma'd or whatever you would have it. Between those forces and the decline of Slashdot, well ...