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Websites That Don't Need to Be Made Anymore
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but there is a finite number of social networking or selling websites that the world needs. Here is a collection of the eight kinds of websites that absolutely don't need to be made anymore. I'd add dating sites and anybody who uses pop-up ads myself, but I think that would eliminate half the Web.
If the editors read the stories before posting them, they would have realized that the last item on the list describes the most recent slashdot initiatives...
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
It's a moron from Digg - this guys crap get's on it all the time.
if i hear one more asshole talk about cloud computing, a renamed concept from the 1980s, i'll punch the douchebag in the face
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Does anyone else have this problem with /., when you push the 'reply' it shows the page with the text area that is one quarter of the width of the page? I am too lazy to check the CSS, but is this happening for everyone here right now, or is it settings dependent and on case by case basis? /. - we don't really need more /. One is enough for everyone.
You can't handle the truth.
Slashdot should be #1 on that list.
Not necessarily. As usual our intrepid editorial staff did a total horseshit job of summarizing, describing, and likely reading, the article. The article is about webpages that don't need to be remade anymore in truth. It largely talks about all the craptacular new social networking sites that are all trying to copy each other for no good reason. So while slashdot doesn't have much of a reason to exist anymore, it isn't a new site either so it doesn't really apply.
On the other hand the list does describe some of the "new" crap that has been added here recently...
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
You say that like that's a bad thing.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Web sites which consist of a list of the top n things the author thinks are good, bad, useful, useless or whatever.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
1) "top 8 things" style articles
2) articles about apple loosing stuff
Seconded. Even for Idle, this seems... out of place.
I started reading it before noticing it was a webcomic.
I thought that slashdot was about "news that matters." Seriously.
"slashdot doesn't have much of a reason to exist anymore"
So it follows that you don't either, correct?
#4 hits it out of the park. STOP making me register for your site! I already have hundreds of passwords--I don't need to remember another one from your crappy web site!
I agree with most of them, but #4 (requiring users to register) is pretty much absolutely essential for a web site to have "stickiness": keeping the user coming back for more. How is a website supposed to customize itself to a specific user's tastes without having users first register?
Damn straight. Slashdot relegated to the "Digg and Reddit clones"? Me and my six-digit ID say "No way."
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
2) articles about apple loosing stuff
Bah, just as I was going to submit my article about Apple untying its shoes....
OK, this story was in idle. Well done for pegging it right there. And I like the Oatmeal, so always happy to see it getting more exposure.
But this strip was posted weeks ago. So not only should this not have been on the front page, but it should have not been on the front page a long time ago.
What's next? Reposting every xkcd strip?
Thanks for giving me another reason to drop /. from my RSS reader.
Dunx
Converting caffeine into code since 1982
So there is no need to make signup because Facebook connect can do it.
No need for a another status update side because Facebook can do it.
No need for a "next facebook" because Facebook can do it.
Wrong!
Facebook is far from perfect. We should totally work on replacements.
Comments that don't need to be made any more
Does anyone else have this problem with /.
Just assume the answer is yes
Me and my 5-digit ID say "I'm pretty sure we were here first..." does anyone use digg but xbox junkies and script kiddies (usually the same people)?
One of the annoying sites they mentioned was having to create an account to do something once, then they linked to a stress relief spiel that made you do just that!
Website that make you log in to even view things.. WTF is that? A members only club that anyone can be a part of? You know how many of those sites have bugmenot logins? your site is a failure, stop being a power freak, You wont get my real email address anyways...
A Website with those damned popups when you roll over a word... OMFG! I want to physically harm the guy that runs that site that has those.
Sound of ANY KIND.. a pop up of your ugly face talking to me in flash? I dont think so. It's not neat, its not cool. It's dumb and makes me want to never go to your site again.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
What about an article about the top 8 things apple looses?
I'm sure I've been living in a hole, but that site has some seriously funny stuff on it. Examples that made me actually laugh out loud:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/facebook_suck
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
- Vincit qui patitur.
It'd be great if there was a way to "purge" useless sites from the web...of course that's a pretty broad description there, perhaps purge "sites that dot he same thing as other sites but not as well" hmm...
Can we just start the internet over?
Ave Molech Setting
While half the sites that require registration, don't actually have much of a valid reason for people to register
Any online store has four reasons to let users create an account:
The reason we have too many of these websites is quite simple - the existing versions suck. For example Facebook steals information/privacy (even info they previously contracted as never being given out). Dating web sites work great - for model types. But for the rest of us they suck.
excitingthingstodo.blogspot.com
Captcha is what prevents bots from spamming you.
On a lot of sites, it's also what prevents legitimate users from contacting you if they happen to be using a speech browser.
I'd add dating sites
Let me guess...you're married? Funny how as soon as one person's needs are met, they no longer see a need for anyone else to have access to services that would supply them similarly.
"We can categorically state we have not released man-eating badgers into the area." - UK military spokesman, July 2007
I have a Launchpad account, which I use as my identifier on a few sites that take OpenID. But one problem in practice with OpenID is that a lot of web sites are OpenID providers (sites that issue identifiers to users) but not as many are relying parties (sites that accept other providers' identifiers). And what prevents a spammer from setting up an OpenID provider and generating an unbounded number of plausible identities?
I actually like reading comments from people who really are lawyers, but how many "IANAL" comments spouting their truth - because they're modded up as such - do we need to wade through to get to them?
Feel free to mod me down because "IANASA" (I Am Not A Site Administrator), so I don't really know what I'm talking about.
thinking outside the box!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
And nothing of value was lost.
#include <disclaimer.h>
#include <beer.h>
Website that make you log in to even view things.. WTF is that? A members only club that anyone can be a part of?
Some of these sites even charge 10 USD for a 10-year subscription, such as Something Awful.
Sound of ANY KIND
Even sound that doesn't start until you activate the Play control?
Incoming nerd rage...
Really? In the 1980s I could call up any number of virtual servers on the fly for a few dollars per month?
Cloud computing in the sense of buying time on a time-sharing computer system has been around since the mainframe days. Cloud computing in the sense of relying on an application service provider has also been around since the mainframe days.
Yes, you nailed the premise of this item exactly, directly relating the linked article to how seeing tired old cliches like posting, "Isn't this supposed to be a news site?" in every Idle post is so tedious.
Good job, man, I hope others catch your ironic agreement with the post!
Would an appropriate compromise be a blog or forum that allows unregistered users to post comments but delays such comments by at least one business day?
Reading that snarky page, I can think of a ninth type of page that doesn't have to be made.
I guess they disagree, though, because they still made it
The people with six-digit id's are greater in number. Someday, we will rise up and toss-off the shackles of oppression and servitude!
You'll be the first with your back against the wall when the revolution comes.
Required reading for internet skeptics
I totally agree with the TFA poster. Especially all the social networking clones. I got a Myspace account a few years ago because a family member wanted me to see their page, and I could not until I created an account. Have not done anything to it since then. I finally broke down recently and created a Facebook account because all my friends have one. Now it is getting a bit crowded. And I am finding out a lot of stuff I did not want to know. So all the other clones of the social networking sites are completely unnecessary. I liked type #4, the sites where they force you get an account to post a comment on some story you came across, even though you probably will never visit the site again. That is why I have to have a Google document online of my 100 ID's and passwords, because I couldn't remember them without it. Also liked #7. Absolutely HATE sites with flash opening. Some sites are build entirely in Flash. So if you don't have it installed, like on the iPad, you're s**t out of luck.
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Google says we don't need any more search engines either. They've already got our privacy covered.
I meant we as in Slashdot as a whole, as opposed to Digg. But, yeah, whatever else is good, too.
1,2,3, 5, 6 and 8 are almost the same, and sadly, all here to stay. Business processes ($$$) that weren't moving the web 20 years ago will guarantee it. Pandora's box, people.
I really expected a historical article about sites that are no longer, um, "socially vital" and have silently and mysteriously disappeared from the public eye.
Here's better candidates: "Shrine" sites with old midi's and gifs (we have blogs now). Ring sites linking each other so you don't need to search to find related interests. Sites with downloads of quirky icon sets and mouse pointers.
Sites that *should* also die because they're less usefull than those the TFA discusses: Perpetual domain parkers and typo squatters. Fake sites fishing for webcrawlers to point to thousands of other links, having no content themselves and adding noise to my searches. And I say to myself... "Good luck with THAT."
And my even lower 5 digit id says "I totally agree with killing off all the clone websites... so I can
1. build all my own clones
2. ???
3. PROFIT!"
Any sound that doesnt come from an explicit play/start/engage/makeitso button.
Say someone copies the play button's URL and pastes it into a link in an HTML document. Does it count as "clicking the play button" if you follow such a link?
You forgot potheads too, applies to reddit as well
Because unlike this site where any anonymous idiot can spout off after 2 clicks, making people jump through a few additional hoops eliminates much of this riff-raff.
"But this one goes to 11!"
You mean Xbox junkies know how to use scripts? Amazing!
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
There is no such word as "anymore".
How about Ten Words You Need To Stop Misspelling?
Oh yeah? Well me and my 7-digit ID say "lol slashdot is ok but it wud be better if more of the stories were funny pics of dogs~!"
So, they hate facebook. Big deal. This is crap, even for idle.
The OP might believe that 'we got all we need', but it turns out we don't know what we need until someone comes up with it.
Of course most startups are absolute trash, but so long as they do it with their money, we get all the benefit and none of the risk. :-)
Send your spendthrift head of state this
The people with six-digit id's are greater in number. Someday, we will rise up and toss-off the shackles of oppression and servitude!
You'll be the first with your back against the wall when the revolution comes.
Spartans rise!!!!!!
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
You say that like that would be a bad thing . . . .
Every 18 months, the semiconductor industry shrinks the process to double the number of gates per square mm. So would you call each doubling a "revolution"?
And this is why Something Awful is a home of intellectual giants, while the rest of the Internet is filled with people who spend hours participating in drama ans accusing each other of being a furry or pedophile.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Get off my lawn, punk.
-- I have a private email server in my basement.