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Coming enshittification? Seriously? Where has the author been for the past three decades as public libraries have quite literally debased themselves to chase so
by slackfan 3y ago
Coming enshittification? Seriously? Where has the author been for the past three decades as public libraries have quite literally debased themselves to chase some modicum of appeal to some nebulous concept of modern generations instead of being what they were and should always remain - public resources for knowledge? Where has the author been when libraries started giving more of a crap about politics than the appeal of their own, er, library? When they killed the user experience of their catalogues in the move away from cards and terminals over to sql databases and crappy websites? The user experience of libraries has been going downhill for at least that long, if not longer.
- joe5150 3y agoThis is a genuinely bizarre point of view. Your nostalgia for the card catalog is shared by approximately nobody, least of all anyone whose job it would be to update and maintain it.
- slackfan 3y agoI'm glad to see that the state of modern libraries has caused such illiteracy that you think that the point of the op was about card catalogues, ergo proving my original point.
- joe5150 3y agoWell then I'm just confused about what you were talking about if "they killed the user experience of their catalogues in the move away from cards and terminals" doesn't refer to card catalogs....