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I'd like to see just how horrible someone can make a site. Facebook is a good contender.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

8chan

Literally 4chan, but worse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How do you even land there?

I only know 4chan through comments, I wouldn't even bother looking for another site like that lol.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

4chan wasn't even the first, it was an English version of a japanese site (futaba channel) which was an image board version of a forum (2channel).

Back in the late aughts, there were a ton of *chan sites. Some even more unsavory than 4chan.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With Facebook and x.com you pretty much understand the risks going in.

But with stack overflow there's so much naivete required to create an account and begin asking questions. The good stuff is laid out right in front of you: people asking similar questions and getting thoughtful responses to deeply technical questions. It feels rewarding to get your first answer approved.

But then after months of "trying" you hit the wall. A sudden deluge of hostility and toxicity. Bipolar moderation staff suddenly deciding your content has no value and dumping you on a curb at night with a shitty smug comment, to the applause of bloodthirsty hoards of bootlicking trolls.

Nothing could have prepared you for this. It's hell. All of your work for nothing, any chance of justice or restitution gone. Every promise broken.

It's insidiously evil and I hope every member of their staff (unpaid moderators included) goes bankrupt and loses their home to foreclosure.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Blue, actually. Very, very, very blue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I like the random red button on the left with no description. Had to click

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

You can, by going to the coupon page of this Web Site, print out coupons for trail rides and receive great discounts.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

In terms of social, political, and geopolitical harm, no platform beats Facebook. At least in X there are community notes. In Facebook, none of that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Eons ago I made a shocksite-"game" where you basically could trick people into visiting, and you got a point for each unique visit. The site was basically a collage of the usual, such as goatse, tubgirl, et.al. I guess that was the worst, and putting no effort into the design didn't help either. Once the /b/-tards on 4chan found out about it, traffic really skyrocketed.

Anyways, years went by, and I didn't have time or interest in maintaining it anymore, so I let the domain name Expire. I chuckled a bit a while back when I realized that the domain had been bought by a jewelry brand, and they used it as a webshop. If only they knew the history.. they obviously haven't checked out the internet archive for that domain.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lately, google.com has been absolute trash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The landing page for Google looks fine and clean and everything but look at the source and you see an absolute nightmare

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well, the source is minified, so yeah, it’ll look horrendous. Most JavaScript/HTML/CSS is minified on tech company websites though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Terms and conditions apply. This site was intentionally made to be as infuriating as possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That was fun!

But I don't get the one with

"Answer very, very carefully. Do you agree to the terms & conditions?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Answer insideThe buttons swap sides when you click but do not release one of them. On mobile it’s harder to see. So click “yes” and it becomes “no”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I was playing on mobile so didn't even notice

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Same here. It worked a few minutes ago, but I guess Lemmy hugged it to death in the meanwhile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Lemmy hugged it to death

Yeah sure.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Stileproject and rotten.com were absolute horror shows. Stileproject just seems to be porn now, but I saw a photo once in like 2005 or so of a guy standing on his head with his legs apart with a full size fire extinguisher jammed deeply into his ass.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Almost any "pop" news / science / gossip / chat / lifestyle article site with ad and pop-up blockers off. Just. Jesus Christ. What the fuck. The fact that some people browse the internet like this... AND the fact some people actually made it in the first place..

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When I was a lot younger and dumber I used to hang out on 4chan. Still can’t unsee shoveldog

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'll bite.

4chan both is and is many different places at once.

It's a huge retro gaming community, a rather tame cosplay community, a fantastic literature community, the largest individual DOOM community on the entire internet, a played entirely straight paranormal board that will take you seriously in many instances, and one of the best music forums on the internet, not to mention many of our first introductions to arch and Gentoo came from /g/, and that fancy neofetch you all like so much(quit using it).

SURROUNDED BY pedophiles, nazis, lolcows, narcissists and trolls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That's correct. Then 2016 happened and infected the whole website.

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