As an analogue to my "local businesses, nonprofits, and community groups please use RSS instead of exclusively posting to Instagram" rant, please consider "please if you have an event calendar, make it a ***calendar*** and not an image on Instagram."
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Cassandra has had an adventure
in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •seems like a normal amount of salt
earlier this morning i was talking at my screen about how the app developers should be filleted like a fish. that was probably too much (in fairness it was uber)
Davi Ottenheimer
in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •agreed! I just made this website and it has felt far more rewarding than any quick thing.
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •We have a project website. No accounts. No commenting. No cookies. No GDPR-relevant data storage. Soon a special RSS feed.
_Exactly_ because of this tendency towards apps, newsletters, feeds (or maybe because I was WWW-socialised in late 1993...).
GeoDesk
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •Sören Meyer-Eppler
in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •Done. All statically generated with no cookies and no JS too.
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •Ben Overmyer
in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •I have a website. It has various kinds of stuff on it, like art, a blog, some tabletop games I wrote, some notes, and other things.
I have no idea how many visitors it gets, because I also don't have any kind of tracking on it.
Mer-fOKxTOwl
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •I get the saltiness. The sheer amount of local businesses in my area with NO WEBSITE, but a Facebook page is too high.
It may seem petty to some, but I have decided to do what I can to avoid businesses with Facebook as their main online presence.
P C
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •The web site of godzillaspace
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •🌈 Espii 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •HTML for People
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •no, it's not.
it would be nice if you could point us in the right direction, though.
i ask as a former, very loyal Wordpress user.
Torb
in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •Isn’t Squaeespace a reasonable choice for less technical people?
Or habe they become a walled garden or something?
James Just James
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •The most stupid thing that I see pretty often is for an open source project putting all the resources in Discord (changelog or guide for ex). And of course these things aren't accessible somewhere else (for example, the fucking git where the files are !!! )
It's very rare to see this bad behavior for solid projects, but for "little" thing like game mods, it's very common
P C
in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •FlorianTFW
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •White Mirror - Why a step backwards might be the way forward
Nicolas ZahnCheapPontoon
in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •remember when Microsoft word would let you export the document as an .html web page so you could just save it to your site and link to it?
Good ole days.
Lynn McAlister UE
in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •Yes! I used to work at a public library. There was a server crash or something and the central 'local history' site that area library's used to make their photos etc. available crashed. So the director set up ours on a Facebook site. I had a fit. Why should our patrons, whose taxes pay for library access, be forced to sign up for a proven predatory platform in order to take advantage of that access?!!!??!!!!! That's the antithesis of what a public library is! (Fortunately the director who replaced him agreed with me and changed this.)
My husband and I have just decided that, if your menu or company information requires me to go onto Facebook/X/whatever, you don't get my business.
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •That's a long, long way from too salty. Well said.
I am frustrated to no end at the number of links I encounter that go to a "open this in the app" or a "log in to continue reading" or "subscribe to see this content" or ...
#web #OpenWeb #open #platform #WalledGarden
MrWes
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in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •As a part of my due diligence as "owner of a nightclub" one of the questions I often ask is, "what are other venues up to these days?" In order to answer that question, I wanted to assemble a calendar listing with all of the events happening at my town's other venues with capacities of our size or smaller.
Surely they all provide ICS or RSS feeds. Surely.
Ho ho ho, I had to write 2k+ lines of code, with custom scrapers for 112 web sites.
Mx Amber Alex (she/it) 😷
in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •I used to live in a place where the municipality had a big fat link to an .ics file on their website with all the bins pickup dates. One click, got it in my calendar software.
It could be that fucking easy.
Malcolm Herbert
in reply to Mx Amber Alex (she/it) 😷 • • •@amberage I wonder if orgs don't offer this because of the confusion between someone subscribing to a feed (which will include updates) vs downloading static content (which won't) - it's not always obvious to the user that this is what is happening ...
I had many discussions with the change management of $JOB-1 to at least make their broad year-long schedule available as an .ics feed to no avail ... never mind that all the data for that was already in a system that managed dates and schedules and it would have been A Small Matter Of Programming to have it generate automagically ... feh
Cassey Lottman
in reply to Cassandra has had an adventure • • •Ottawa has an app called "Collection" where you can check what kind of trash is supposed to go in what kind of bin, and get a schedule tailored to your home address that will notify you when it's time to put your bins out or when your pickup will be affected by a holiday. It's great, albeit, an app when I'd prefer less of those in my life.
But ... in the last 6 months or so (probably around when the recycling pickup was outsourced and some people's schedule changed) people were upset about missing pickups in my neighbourhood facebook group, so now someone posts a screenshot of what the next day's pickup will be in the facebook group each week, which by nature of facebook, appears in my feed some time in the several days following when the pickup has already happened....
Pau Kokura
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