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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by noir_lord on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:23PM (#19039658)
RSS - (partially) Google killed it.

My first website was about about TNG and why DS9 sucked balls.

Ironic since I now consider DS9 the better series (but TNG still has the truly stand out episodes, I think young me was just oblivious to a lot of the subtler stuff but I digress), it was shockingly bad (and I'd been programming since the 80's, HTML was just weird).

I spent about five years hating the crap out of it and never even considered web development as a career, if you'd have asked me back then I'd have said you'd claw the compiler out of my cold dead hands.

20 odd-years later and I do enterprise web dev (and C#/WPF and Java)

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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by JetSpiegel on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:03PM (#19040979)
RSS is alive, and for dumb sites there are hacks such as https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/-
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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by taborj on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:29PM (#19041429)
I love RSS-Bridge. I have a local instance running, and it saves me from having to sign up with Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Also, tt-rss is an excellent reader.

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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by brokenmachine on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:39PM (#19041820)
I was interested in tt-rss until I tried it out and there was a problem with the Android app. I checked the forums for a solution...

If you do check out the forums for it you will very quickly see that the developer is a massive asshole.

I wouldn't trust any code that a person like that writes to run on my machine.

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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by EvanAnderson on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:36PM (#19042094)
I forked tt-rss back in 2005 for my personal use after I tried to submit a few patches that didn't "align well" w/ the developer. I wouldn't go so far as to say "massive asshole", but he did seem to be a challenge to deal with. I decided it wasn't worth the effort to try to contribute back my changes.
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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by noir_lord on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:21PM (#19041096)
You have a trailing - and also neat!.
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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by shrikrishna on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:29PM (#19041433)
I was able to enjoy TNG from the get go. It's one of the few shows where the stories have any depth. Although I did start watching it when I was in my twenties, so that could have been a factor in being able to pick up on the subtler themes
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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by noir_lord on Thursday January 31, 2019 @06:29AM (#19044046)
I watched TNG as it aired, that and Quantum Leap where my favourites as a kid at a time when UK TV was four channels and sci-fi was rare.
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