Tommy430

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by Tommy430 11mo ago
YT2009 and WarpStream (Protoweb) prove the old YouTube can still work today. The new one is just a cat and mouse game of diminishing returns.
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by Tommy430 11mo ago
Now the YouTube layout is bloated and is in diminishing returns for a while. The writing is on the wall. Maybe we need to hire construction teams to break into peoples' houses and change them every 5 seconds.
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by Tommy430 1y ago
In all fairness, we use proxies without realizing it.
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by Tommy430 1y ago
Speaking of MITM proxy, which one do you use? Currently doing some interesting experiments on a bunch of Legacy Windows VMs. ;-)
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by Tommy430 2y ago
This doesn't get talked about enough. Microsoft back then was just a software company, they didn't care about your real life. Unfortunately, companies today are a different story.
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by Tommy430 2y ago
> How would it be worse? well Google is constantly moving too fast and they're mainly an internet company, whereas Microsoft was just the software company. derp
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by Tommy430 2y ago
userbinator speaking out again, loving your posts on "modern" stuff. Unfortunately, that's how it's like sadly. People just want the "constant CONSTANT CONSTANT UPDATES!!!" without thinking properly, even if th
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by Tommy430 2y ago
> "obsolete" is meaningless. Physical books are obsolete for not changing without your consent every 5 seconds. /s
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YT2009 – A First Look (2023) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by Tommy430 2y ago|0 comments
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by Tommy430 2y ago
I've been using YT2009 since the release and I loved it since. More responsive than regular YouTube and IMO the 2009 layout looks better than the "modern" one. The best thing about this frontend is that you can watch YouTube
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by Tommy430 2y ago
Agreed. Sadly it's due to the constant churn of tech these days. Developers should just take notes from the books on the shelf: don't change without consent unless you explicitly some change. Slightly off-topic: I've been vie
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by Tommy430 3y ago
> why should they care about a dead and insecure os. Developing for old technologies in general (especially hardware) can help make your code and project lighter in general. (see: alternative frontends for YouTube and Twitter, YouTube ci
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by Tommy430 3y ago
"Now"?!?!? It's even more buggy than Windows search.
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by Tommy430 3y ago
> We're at the point where mobile has been the dominant computing platform longer than desktop. I do see your point. What I mean is that we have oversized UIs and hamburger menus on the desktop which makes me feel like for a while
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by Tommy430 3y ago
The internet died when the desktop became an afterthought. :P
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by Tommy430 3y ago
Honestly, the search has been broken for a while. Half of the search results aren't even related and another thing I hate is YouTube Shorts. Anyways, for me, I just loathe how the whole site is designed in general. Opening YouTube toda
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by Tommy430 3y ago
> There's some really good stuff on there that I miss Tbh, same. I do miss getting some information about Windows betas pretty much, but other than that, I won't miss Twitter at all. People need to publish more on more open and
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by Tommy430 3y ago
Ah, can't wait for more login walls, oversized UIs, and more "Please Subscribe" crap. Thanks Twitter.
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by Tommy430 3y ago
> I see no hope of fixing human drivers while maybe they can make cars work. Sadly that won't be the case for some time to a while. Most people only care about the moment of the trend rather than what the future will look like.
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by Tommy430 3y ago
I hope that more revolts happen. I'm sick of this "trends" BS that Big Tech pushes and makes others follow. Unrelated but IMHO, web bloat will also kill the internet more than IE at this point.
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by Tommy430 3y ago
Not only that, but even older website layouts were more responsive.
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by Tommy430 3y ago
> That's an aesthetic judgement. A site doesn't have to "look" fun to be fun. It just has to present the content that the author, or audience, find engaging. This right here. This here is why I visit this site, a bunc
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by Tommy430 3y ago
This pretty much, not to mention that some sites break just by disabling JavaScript even though frontends for popular social media sites like Twitter (Nitter) and YouTube (YT2009, Invidious) prove that you don't need JavaScript or at l
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by Tommy430 3y ago
> But a counter argument is that uBlock origin, Pi-hole, and Reader mode in Firefox go a long way to blocking those things and creating a nice reading experience. Yeah, true. What I mean is that I miss when the web sites were still light
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by Tommy430 3y ago
The internet can still be fun but I see what the author means. At most I just use a few modern social media sites, some with frontends (Nitter, YT2009) and visit a few obscure sites.
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by Tommy430 3y ago
> I've seen it evolve from java applets and flash to something better. With the advances in technology I wish it had. However, we now have Material Design, oversized UIs, autoplaying videos when you are immediately on the site, anti
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by Tommy430 3y ago
> But Twitter doesn't address many of the downsides of social media that were listed, or many of the upsides of RSS that were listed. Seriously. You even have to log in just to view or search stuff.
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by Tommy430 3y ago
RSS is still pretty great indeed. It's just that the big tech and social media services want you to believe that it's "dead" just to keep you hooked and addicted into their system as possible.
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by Tommy430 3y ago
Yawn. Call me back when the YT layout is no longer bloated instead of taking things down not within their vision.