I’d like to see just how horrible someone can make a site. Facebook is a good contender.

    • kratoz29
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      65 months ago

      How do you even land there?

      I only know 4chan through comments, I wouldn’t even bother looking for another site like that lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        4chan wasn’t even the first, it was an English version of a japanese site (futaba channel) which was an image board version of a forum (2channel).

        Back in the late aughts, there were a ton of *chan sites. Some even more unsavory than 4chan.

  • @[email protected]
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    Seemingly every recipe website. They tell a long, unrelated story, cover the page with ads, popups, slideouts, timer triggered ads, videos, etc.

    It’s almost impossible to see the recipe under all the crap.

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      These were some of the first sites to be enshittified. The more you scroll that more ad revenue they got. So they hid the actual recipes and steps under a back story longer than the dune books that forced you to scroll and hit ad after ad.

      • slingstone
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        A lot of these have a link near the top to go straight to the recipe, which helps me avoid much of the dreck.

    • bravesirrbn ☑️
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      That was fun!

      But I don’t get the one with

      “Answer very, very carefully. Do you agree to the terms & conditions?”

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago
        Answer inside

        The buttons swap sides when you click but do not release one of them. On mobile it’s harder to see. So click “yes” and it becomes “no”.

      • chaosCruiser
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        Same here. It worked a few minutes ago, but I guess Lemmy hugged it to death in the meanwhile.

          • chaosCruiser
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            Well, what do you think? Pretty infuriating huh? Somehow makes you understand people who commit violet crimes in a fit of rage.

            • GregorOP
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              Yeah lmao, that site is perfect. I shall share it with many friends to bring out some infuriation.

      • @[email protected]
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        Encyclopedia Dramatica was KnowYourMeme but for teenage boys who think calling some one a fggt/goatse is the peak of comedy. The “offended” page was just a lot of shock imagery - gay porn, gore, vomit, shit (iirc it also played stuff at max volume). It’d be linked on articles that were less than nice.

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          Oh it’s further than that. It’s 4-chan users from /b/ who still think worshiping Hitler, calling black people the N word and going around spewing any racial slang around is still the coolest thing to do. ED isn’t even an ecyclopedia, it’s just the internet’s big black book of people the internet doesn’t like in the form of lolcows, controversial people who made themselves out to be shitty people. All of these things and more for people to learn about and get personal with since they’re all openly doxxed.

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    Almost any “pop” news / science / gossip / chat / lifestyle article site with ad and pop-up blockers off. Just. Jesus Christ. What the fuck. The fact that some people browse the internet like this… AND the fact some people actually made it in the first place…

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    Oh I forgot Tumblr. I had to create an account to see a thing once, I saw all the users there and I left, never looked back, cringe ass place. Is like being in one of those weird cons with furries…

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    Spotify. Only website/service that makes their service intentionally worst and people still pay for it

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    It’s hard to pick out one as THE worst, but generally, if I have to use the site for some external reason, the experience is awful.

    Health insurance, doctor’s offices, etc are generally pretty bad. Oddly, tax sites aren’t as rough.

    Also oddly, vacation related websites are awful.

  • Nyxicas
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    Reddit.

    Fragile Mods. Shitty trolls. Dishonest engagements. Little to no good discussion. Opinions are seen as attacks. Power-tripping users and mods alike. Karma whores.

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        Just less users, making the bots more visible. You’ve had repost bots all through, we just assumed it was actual people trying to score cheap karma.

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      Can’t stand the staleness. Apart from the frigging bots and automods, it feels like a bunch of boring, shallow, sated establishment guys that like “pretending that one could be hip with a mortgage payment,” as Bela Koe-Krompecher once put it.

    • @[email protected]
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      The landing page for Google looks fine and clean and everything but look at the source and you see an absolute nightmare

      • @[email protected]
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        Well, the source is minified, so yeah, it’ll look horrendous. Most JavaScript/HTML/CSS is minified on tech company websites though.

  • @[email protected]
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    When I was a lot younger and dumber I used to hang out on 4chan. Still can’t unsee shoveldog

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      I’ll bite.

      4chan both is and is many different places at once.

      It’s a huge retro gaming community, a rather tame cosplay community, a fantastic literature community, the largest individual DOOM community on the entire internet, a played entirely straight paranormal board that will take you seriously in many instances, and one of the best music forums on the internet, not to mention many of our first introductions to arch and Gentoo came from /g/, and that fancy neofetch you all like so much(quit using it).

      SURROUNDED BY pedophiles, nazis, lolcows, narcissists and trolls.

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        That’s correct. Then 2016 happened and infected the whole website.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah and /wg/ is pretty good so long as you scroll past the fash threads.

        The decent communities give legitimacy to /pol/