Didn’t this stupid website used to help you, you know, hack life or something?
Lifehacker is just click bait shit now. Once upon a time in a far away land it was good.
Lifehacker got me into everything tech 15 years ago. It is nothing like it used to be, it’s very sad.
It used to be pretty good, but that was over ten years ago now.
Gosh, remember TechTV before the G4 merger? Between Call for Help & The Screensavers, I learned SO MUCH.
G4 tv 🤯
i remember ZDtv before TechTV.
Every time I drive by Laporte street in my neighborhood, I remember
He revived it on his own
I do! Me too man. Golden ages.
Unfortunately everything is an ad now. It’s the only way these sites are capable of surviving.
I feel like I’m turning into ‘that guy’ again but cryptocurrency could help this out.
a) connect wallet to lifehacker
b) have fractions of a cent taken out to unlock articles
I know people can bypass it/copy paste, but at the end of the day it would be another source of revenue. They are surviving as is, but barely.
Anything that is, or once was affiliated with Gawker / GMG is, in its current state, a cringe-inducing, shambling husk of whatever it once was. My muscle memory still directs me to a number of those blogs and everyday I recoil at what has become of them.
RIP AV Club
Hmm, I wasn’t around for old Kotaku, but I think Kotaku still posts some good stuff? Or are they not Gawker?
Kotaku is close enough to gaming “journalism” that it’s never really been good.
When was the last time it was good? Im going with the death of Next Gen magazine in 2002
I like most of what Jalopnik has at least.
There was a time when Lifehacker was a place you could go for neat little things that could be accomplished with objects at hand to make life easier. There was such a time for many, many places on this great Internet of ours.
It was lit when it was Gina and crew.
It really was, I have a clear recollection of it being one of my top sites for a good year or two. Then the bad times came.
This post reminded me of how much I miss the Consumerist website.
What was that? O:
It was a public site associated with consumer reports. They occasionally released some product research in various areas, but mainly they wrote stories about shitty anti consumer practices that companies did. They also ran the worst company in America competition and sent the winner a golden poo trophy.
Like if the consumer protection bureau was a website.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180116152409/https://consumerist.com/
Oh wow. Totally forgot about them. The internet is such a shit hole now. (Except for lemmy and tildes of course =P)
That ship sailed a very long time ago.
Lifehacker has one good article a week. At the end of the week. It’s one where they debunk a bunch of bullshit rumors floating around the internet at the moment.
So I check them once on Fridays.
I’m guessing, with the way G/O media is going, that they’ll get rid of that.
It did used to have great stuff. I first unsubbed years ago, and remain unsubbed until I forget what crap it became and resub - and then <DOH!> unsub again.
That’s what happened to me too just now! xD
I mean, it was a pretty cool website like 20 years ago.
I unsubscribed when they had an article about how rimming isn’t unsanitary and how to do it properly. I cannot describe how grossed out I was.
I thought you were kidding. What the hell kind of lifehack is this? https://lifehacker.com/how-to-eat-ass-1820805658
I mean butts are great and all, but they tend to REDUCE my ability to get things done.
I enjoy receiving but wouldn’t give personally. Nerve endings.
I’m a both absolutely yes. As long as the person is hygienic overall. Not like, just outta shower clean, fuck that. They just have to wipe properly.
It’s incredible how low of a bar that is, yet tons of people still don’t know how to clean their ass after they shit.
The only good Lifehacker articles are old Lifehacker articles.
I used to browse it about 15-20 years ago.It used to be a good place to learn tricks about all sorts of electronics. I’m not sure exactly what happened but it was like a switch flipped and they got awful almost overnight. Probably bought out.
I feel like someone needs to setup a Netflix-type deal for news sites. I’m not going to pay a news site that I only view an article or two a month from. And there’s a bunch of them. So it’d be neat if I can pay one price and access them when I need to.
Apple News+ is kind of like that
But purposely excludes anyone who hasn’t invested $2000 in the apple ecosystem. Anything made by apple is a huge no from me, even if they decide occasionally to support hardware they didn’t already profit from directly.
The good old days of Lifehacker are long gone. What it is now is an insult to its memory.
