As someone who has tried that effort to do scraping from Fandom, it’s certainly an experience - the HTML is truly nightmarish and definitely written in a way to make scraping as hard as possible (and potentially even programmatically obfuscated, too)
Unfortunately, it’s a natural result of Discord moving from being a useful little service to a “platform” with investors and needing to constantly be updated with useless nonsense to keep the “value” of the product alive.
Realistically, once everything was up and running, and they had moved their DB over to their current platform, someone should have taken the keys away from them and just said “Discord is done, it’s complete”. We likely wouldn’t be having this much of a problem with useful information being hidden away behind Discord server invite URLs.
I wonder what the “apex” for all of this is - as in, when do we hit critical mass and the advertisers pull out of this nonsense dumpster fire that is the current internet.
Surely, at some point, if the advertisers know they’re advertising to no one aside from bots on websites that host fake content, then they will pull out and the service providers will have to try and actually make the internet “usable” again? Perhaps I’m being too generous.
I’ve found in my experience that having even just small amounts of engagement like this from health professionals really helps me feel more at ease and comfortable with whatever’s happening. I wish you the best, and I hope the ECT isn’t too bad!
We are so unbelievably fucked it’s not even funny anymore.
My go-to “retro” (read: older than 2 generations ago) title is Crash Team Racing, it’s such a good little kart racer with an absolutely banging soundtrack.
Eh, it also helps that it’s from a recognisable brand that people already understand. Decentralised social networks have a long way to go to meet the elevator-pitch test, as it were.
Not to say that it makes it any less bad, but just that it’s at the very least understandable - I can easily see the “average person” saying “I want to leave Twitter” and just picking something is relatively similar, with a single logon page that just works out of the gate.
I also have this, and I often have to force-kill the entire Firefox app in order to make it come back to life.
I wish Firefox on mobile was overall just “better”
Truly Lemmy is where the strong thrive /s
I’m still a huge fan of LibraryThing (http://librarything.com/), especially with its embed functionality so I can embed it into my site
Please God don’t give them ideas
Has Vanced been working for you? Mine has been breaking quite a bit recently (as in, videos will stop loading after only about 30 seconds)