Didn’t this stupid website used to help you, you know, hack life or something?
Lifehacker is just click bait shit now. Once upon a time in a far away land it was good.
Lifehacker got me into everything tech 15 years ago. It is nothing like it used to be, it’s very sad.
It used to be pretty good, but that was over ten years ago now.
Gosh, remember TechTV before the G4 merger? Between Call for Help & The Screensavers, I learned SO MUCH.
G4 tv 🤯
i remember ZDtv before TechTV.
I do! Me too man. Golden ages.
Unfortunately everything is an ad now. It’s the only way these sites are capable of surviving.
I feel like I’m turning into ‘that guy’ again but cryptocurrency could help this out.
a) connect wallet to lifehacker
b) have fractions of a cent taken out to unlock articles
I know people can bypass it/copy paste, but at the end of the day it would be another source of revenue. They are surviving as is, but barely.
I feel like you’d be interested in the Web Monetization API, if you’re not already aware of it.
Very cool thanks for sharing. I need to discover more projects like these.
Anything that is, or once was affiliated with Gawker / GMG is, in its current state, a cringe-inducing, shambling husk of whatever it once was. My muscle memory still directs me to a number of those blogs and everyday I recoil at what has become of them.
RIP AV Club
Hmm, I wasn’t around for old Kotaku, but I think Kotaku still posts some good stuff? Or are they not Gawker?
Kotaku is close enough to gaming “journalism” that it’s never really been good.
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I like most of what Jalopnik has at least.
This post reminded me of how much I miss the Consumerist website.
Oh wow. Totally forgot about them. The internet is such a shit hole now. (Except for lemmy and tildes of course =P)
What was that? O:
It was a public site associated with consumer reports. They occasionally released some product research in various areas, but mainly they wrote stories about shitty anti consumer practices that companies did. They also ran the worst company in America competition and sent the winner a golden poo trophy.
Like if the consumer protection bureau was a website.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180116152409/https://consumerist.com/
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That’s what happened to me too just now! xD
I unsubscribed when they had an article about how rimming isn’t unsanitary and how to do it properly. I cannot describe how grossed out I was.
I thought you were kidding. What the hell kind of lifehack is this? https://lifehacker.com/how-to-eat-ass-1820805658
I mean butts are great and all, but they tend to REDUCE my ability to get things done.
I enjoy receiving but wouldn’t give personally. Nerve endings.
Lifehacker has one good article a week. At the end of the week. It’s one where they debunk a bunch of bullshit rumors floating around the internet at the moment.
So I check them once on Fridays.
I’m guessing, with the way G/O media is going, that they’ll get rid of that.
That ship sailed a very long time ago.
There was a time when Lifehacker was a place you could go for neat little things that could be accomplished with objects at hand to make life easier. There was such a time for many, many places on this great Internet of ours.
The good old days of Lifehacker are long gone. What it is now is an insult to its memory.
The only good Lifehacker articles are old Lifehacker articles.
I mean, it was a pretty cool website like 20 years ago.
Any alternatives you recommend?
Heck if I know them. Anyone else? ^^
There was once a related website called tree hugger. All the articles were about things you could buy with an eco focus of some kind.
It was neat to see stuff about solar powered radios, but pushing consumerism that much for that purpose misses the point
