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Most of the popular online services have screwed up their interface.

I think it started with Digg. It was once a loved website. The screwed up the interface and everyone ran to Reddit.

Now Reddit has screwed up their interface too.

We all used to love Google for its simple and elegant web interfaces. Look at what a mess GMail is now.

If there is anything that more than 10 years of Web 2.0 teaches us, it is that once we host our content on another company's service, we are at the mercy of that company. They can take our content and serve it over absolute crap interface providing an absolute crap experience to our readers whenever they want to. They are never going to care about the presentation of the content the way the original author might. So I think it is time to take back control and host your own blogs. I know not everyone wants to buy a domain name, buy a VPS, set things up, and keep a blog running. And no, GitHub Pages, is not a solution. GitHub Pages is great today but if there is anything that more than 10 years of Web 2.0 teaches us, it is ... Do you see my point?

So as technologists, we need to think how we can make it easier so that anyone (from young kids to the suits type) can setup their blogs and publish content with ease. Any interesting solutions? Any takers?




The main thing that killed Digg was them selling out to advertisers and having power users control all the content on the front page. The redesign was just the final nail in the coffin.


> Now Reddit has screwed up their interface too.

At least Reddit has alternatives (for now), e.g. dm.reddit.com ; old.reddit.com


For now, indeed. Not sure what I'm going to do when they go away, I dislike the new interface so much that I don't think I'll use the site anymore


Gmails team should use low end computers to test new interfaces like the new one which is super slow even on my i3 with 8Gb of ram.


Githuh pages is the solution. For now. And that's all we need, as you said, nothing lasts forever.


Yeah i dont wanna setup up a sever (because that hella insercure) but I want my info to be free! Wordpress?




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