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| From | Silvermiles <silvermiles@nospam.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.games.development.programming.algorithms |
| Subject | Re: Anyone Alive? |
| Date | 2011-05-02 11:31 +0800 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <ipl8hv$l7a$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <b0dvp.172$OZ2.105@newsfe07.iad> <ipjqd9$v61$1@speranza.aioe.org> <4dbd74f2$0$38641$4fafbaef@reader1.news.tin.it> <ipk0q4$gha$1@speranza.aioe.org> <87ipttlsru.fsf@catnip.gol.com> |
It seems like some superficial victory of the merchants over freedom. How stupid is Facebook to write, and yet how popular it is. The same goes for almost all websites. What are the most important reasons why powerful and dedicated protocols such as IRC/NNTP fail in your opinion? Here are some possibilities: - design and rich content considered "sexy" (MSN smileys) - need a dedicated software, people still confuse Internet and a browser - marketing issue Overall, I guess we can say younger educated generations will knowingly adopt the inferior solution because it's the trend. Yet all the Internet protocols are open standards (TCP-IP and lower layers). Websites are only the cherry on the cake. But that cherry is worth 99% of the wealth. So of course it's only superficial, but it's still a victory. On 2011-05-02 10:51:01 +0800, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> said: > Silvermiles <silvermiles@nospam.com> writes: > >>> Man, this is really sad, I haven't come on the newsgroup since 2007 but > >>> it was not like this, what happened? People don't see the fun in > >>> newsgroup anymore? > >> > >> People tend to gather in local Web forums and/or mailing lists, I guess. > > It's a bit of a shame, besides the greater flexibility in choosing the > UI one uses (forum software typically being insanely awful), newsgroups > always seemed to have much more variety of posters than typical forums > do ... > > -Miles
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