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its not 2010 anymore moron
every good browser is chromium
and you still have to use google to search anyway
i dont see what difference it actually makes >uses firefox to google search
its all performative at the end of the day
it doesnt matter, you are using google anyway >DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo!
LAUGHING MY FRICKING ASS OFF >Brave Search uses its own web index. As of May 2022, it covered over 10 billion pages and was used to serve 92% of search results without relying on any third-parties, with the remainder being retrieved server-side from the Bing API or (on an opt-in basis) client-side from Google
its all performative
3 months ago
Anonymous
I use brave, and often times the results are so bad I go on google. There really isn't any perfect browser.
Those images still come up as corrupt/unable to post when trying to post them on Ganker or something. I have to open paint, copy the image and save as jpg every single time.
That's because in addition to being a container that can hold the other types, it also has its own format that can be used. Absolute trash. And here I remember when everyone was up MS's ass about inventing bullshit that was only compatible with Internet Explorer. Today Google does it constantly and the only thing passing the lips of normalgays is semen and "Please sir, I want some more."
Get the "save webp as png or jpeg" extension, and give it clipboard access. Now when you open a png you can click a button to copy it to your clipboard, and then when you're writing a post you can hit ctrl+v to paste the image (at least if you're using Gankerx, I'm not sure if it works vanilla.
Or you can just use the extension to save it directly as a jpeg or png
It might be a Ganker X feature but you can paste any image or .webm into the post and it should automatically upload it. Windows capture automatically copies to clipboard.
>It might be a Ganker X feature
This must be it. I know how the windows screen capture works, but I've never been able to paste files directly into a post. Always have to manually save the screenshot then select it from my files
i thought my hatred for codeBlack folk could not grow any further, but i once saw a twatter thread on webp and about two thirds of them were praising the format for saving file size and bandwidth >who cares about the users? it should all be about making my web design monkey job easier
>have to append "reddit" to every single search to get even remotely useful results
SEO has been a disaster for the human race
>google super simple game related question that can be answered in one sentence >first four pages are all AI generated SEO garbage with twenty paragraphs of nonsense you didn't ask for before they get to the point
Shit like this has made using the internet an arduous chore. One of the primary benefits of the internet was accessibility to information, and now it's the opposite. Google, what was once the most powerful search engine, it's completely useless. Results are almost entirely SEO garbage with no information, and all you can do is manually filter the results. Alternative search engines are no better.
uBlock, "I don't care about cookies", BreezeWiki (redirects fandom sites to a cleaner mirror), and other extensions are all you can do at this point. Webshit has managed to regress one of the most powerful technologies into an unusable nightmare.
>microsoft forums with incredibly hit or miss answers made by microsoft windows ''''''''''experts'''''''''
Probably the single worst thing of troubleshooting any Windows problem. These gays will say everything except the actual solution, making everyone suffer. This is doubly true for the people who actually consult them that are forced to wait forever in between non answers and being told to update Windows.
I fricking hate this shit so much it's unreal. SEO and all the other problems with the internet make it so much worse. These support forum threads always go the same way: OP will describe the issue in detail and what they've tried to fix it, then moron Certified Senior Microsoft Expert™ Pajeet Singh replies with the same boilerplate garbage not even addressing the issue. "Reinstall Windows", "Run antivirus", "restart your PC". Then they'll close the thread and mark it as solved. Random YouTube comments from 6 years ago will describe how to fix the problem, not "official support".
>google super simple game related question that can be answered in one sentence >first four pages are all AI generated SEO garbage with twenty paragraphs of nonsense you didn't ask for before they get to the point
this shit is the fricking bane of my existence this shit actually drives me insane and it applies to so much shit outside of video games as well. recently had this while trying to look up a super simple ableton issue and i got one of those annoying ass articles with this PLUS a fricking slideshow of images i had to sift through. what the actual frick.
>"This is when [X] will be released" >ad >wikipedia summary >teaser trailer >dev's history >"[X]'s release date hasn't been announced yet but we'll let you know as soon as we know more!"
>"This is when [X] will be released" >ad >wikipedia summary >teaser trailer >dev's history >"[X]'s release date hasn't been announced yet but we'll let you know as soon as we know more!"
This is a legitimate reason to use ChatGPT nowadays.
chatgpt is half the reason shit is as bad as it is. And why it's only going to get worse from now on as more and more of the internet is filled by AI generated nonsense webpages designed to grab clicks for ad revenue.
chatgpt is half the reason shit is as bad as it is. And why it's only going to get worse from now on as more and more of the internet is filled by AI generated nonsense webpages designed to grab clicks for ad revenue.
AIs aren't even reliable for factual information. Fandom used to have this AI FAQ section which just spouted nonsense and they had to get rid of it due to backlash.
>everyone said for years that knowledge retention is useless because you can just google everything >now all search engines have crumpled under the weight of AI and become functionally worthless
We're hardcore regressing while we progress, incredible
It was called book burning in the past. You change paper into ashes. And then the library ceases to be, and humanity falls down some stairs again.
Humans definitely have the technology to do this planet justice. There's just nobody who cares.
And I've never met a happy person.
holy frick this is so annoying, happened to me recently with palworld when I wanted to find out where to get quartz, it was article after article of bullshit before I finally found a map which actually just showed what I wanted
this is by far the most rage inducing shit right now
it's almost unbelievable. I was gonna link one of those here but everyone fricking knows what those look like, it's always formatted as a "list" of steps even for the most mundane shit
super simple game related question that can be answered in one sentence >there are no text based answeres, its all 15 minute long youtube videos of some pajeet rambling about random horse shit before he answers the question
>Video collectible guides instead of screenshot collectible guides that show you exactly where the item is in one second of Ctrl+Fing instead of like a minute of scrolling through a video.
I despise this shit so much. I make a point now whenever I'm looking for some obscure bug fix to spam my solution on every Reddit thread and link I followed on my attempt to solve it. Some day in the future, someone will need to walk down my trail.
my personal favorite being when the patch for a game is on fichier.de or some shit and you wait for 10 minutes to download a 500kb .dll and the download fails for whatever reason and you reach your 'limit' for the day and have to wait 24 hours just for the download to fail again.
so much actually useful info lost for fricking nothing >google search xyz
[...]
pages of fricking nothing >search xyz reddit >first link is the exact question i asked and a perfect answer upvoted to the top of the page
now there is a 50/50 chance you get a private or dead sub
>google something for cyberpunk >first result is fextralife for some reason >all the information on the page is from version 1.1 and it looked like they just gave up halfway through
thank god twitch removed the ability to embed streams
The state of Cyberpunk documentation is fricking ABYSMAL. the wiki sucks donkey dick, there's an entirely seperate and equally as shitty one for the FF:06:B5 mystery for some reason, and the TCRF page is absolute dogshit.
https://tcrf.net/Cyberpunk_2077
I hate it because google used their market monopoly to force webp onto the internet and to snuff the superior JPEG-XL. Luckily for once I can side with Apple because they're supporting it in Safari, and I hope that puts the pressure on Google.
Storage is unbelievable cheap these days and it's even cheaper when a datacenter orders their bulk supply of 24TB HDDs at a wholesale discount. Saving .02kb of space is not worth it for how shit it is overall.
I guaran fricking tee that all it would take for Ganker to support webp uploads would be a single line in the config changed, from >image/jpg, image/png, image/gif, video/webm
to >image/jpg, image/png, image/gif, image/webp, video/webm
All of the backend software, imagemagick etc., has supported webp for years. It's literally just maintainers refusing to do a basic bit of fricking maintenance.
>mfw seeing fluoridated NPC's on twatter defend webp saying it's so much better and lighter than PNG and JPG with such good quality and that it's impopular because of le evil dumb tech industry who didn't implement it well
It's not the tech industry at large, some kind of conspiracy or something. At large webp is well supported, it's literally just sysadmins and package maintainers being lazy fricks (and I can say this because I am a sysadmin) refusing to make it easy for users to use. It's the last link of the chain making it hard on you.
Also to tell on myself a bit:
iOS doesn't support webm which is insanely well established. I run a website that serves a bunch of video files in webm and mp4 format. My boss keeps asking me to implement a support library to help iToddlers watch the webms, it's like a webm decoder that loads in the browser or something. And I keep putting it off.
That's what's fricking with you. That's why you have such trouble with webp, is people like me being too goddamn lazy to do our jobs. I'm still not going to implement that webm decoder after making this post.
Where did I state otherwise, dumbass? You're the moron here defending google removing useful features. You're next post will be a justification about how search is better now the ability to view the cached version was removed
>Fandom.com: When the wiki absolutely, positively has to require more CPU power to display than the game you're trying to find a guide for, accept no substitutes!
>Want to know how a 30+ year old episode of Star Trek TNG was made >Need to open up my laptop with adblocker just to run the wiki in a usable state
This is not the future I wanted. Imagine having to explain this to my 10 year old self in 2004.
Excuse me sir, those 5 kilobytes that they save per image by using webp mean they can lower their cost to operate, which gives them more money they can use to not pay their contributors!
fandom and reddit are both websites that convert pngs hosted on their website to webp. they're actually hosted as pngs but are being converted automatically by the website because your browser has webp listed as an accpeted format. a little bit of code can prevent it from happening.
there's absolutely nothing wrong with PNG. we live in the day an age where fricking smartphones have a terabyte of flash memory and double digit gigabytes of RAM. there's zero excuse to be israeli with file size.
doesn't matter when the apps utilizing said memory are spaghetti coded javashit that choke to death in a pool of their own blood and vomit as soon as you load one too many jpegs and can't even use more than 1 core of your CPU anyway (like the new Steam client that STILL hasn't fixed the fricking back button causing an overflow or some shit resetting the whole process booting you back to the library page)
also how read about a game or movie or anything on wikipedia and spend three clicks getting through to the original file of the poster/box art and its 200px high every time now
>Need to get info on a specific series of mods based on a particular mod for one game >Visit an old forum for it that had information, people's own versions of the mod, hacky patches, and attempts to update it for the current engine branch of the game >It's dead >It hits me like a truck and I now remember the owner of the forum said he's putting it in read-only mode and then killing it after some time passes because nobody uses forums anymore discord is the future
The internet has left me in despair.
I'd rather have this then deal with >go to discord in a private tab for a fetish mod >sign in as a guest >get redirected to sign in with my actual account >the channel with the link is invisible and can only be accessed by asking a bot >can only talk after completing a bunch of steps >one of the steps is providing my fricking phone number >leave because why the frick would I give that out
The Discord shit drives me absolutely fricking insane. I don't know how a fricking Teamspeak clone started replace forums.
So much information and discussion is now sequestered away into private little areas gated by proprietary software. We're witnessing a fricking internet Dark Age happen before our eyes. All internet history will be clearly traceable up to a certain point and then will just fricking stop as Discord takes that all and deletes it forever.
And yeah, the slow squeezing away of privacy through garbage like phone number identification. Using the internet in the future means 20 fricking privacy and filter add-ons and burner phone numbers to get the same default experience of 2004 internet. It's absolutely rancid.
It is used exclusively by those who long for power over others and any game or game community that uses a discord as their primary info resource is not one you should support in any way. Words cannot describe my unbridled hatred for discord homosexuals.
>We're witnessing a fricking internet Dark Age happen before our eyes.
It's been happening for a long time now. How many old forums died because it was hacked and the Admin either didn't have a backup or just couldn't be bothered? How many web1.0 websites are still around? How much information has been thrown away because 3rd party imagehosting websites deleted those images to save disk space?
You're correct, but archiving and scraping still existed. The information was just there and you could go grab it and file it away somewhere if needed.
Now that's not even an option, all that stuff is tucked away in little boxes you can't get to.
It's like seeing Humanity regress. For a brief instance in our human experience, we were all conversing in a shared space instead of limited by geographical or organisational barriers. Now we're back to that shit again, everyone going into little rooms and little cults to keep all their precious information secret.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Sounds like what we need is a discord scraper, that retrieves all downloadable files and builds a basic HTML copy of the chat(maybe even using AI to filter out useless rambling).
3 months ago
Anonymous
>but archiving and scraping still existed.
Registered-user-only subforums also existed, which scraping wouldn't grab unless it somehow managed to have an account to said forum with proper permissions. Navigating old forum archives even these days is also a gamble as to whether or not the old archived links are formatted in a way that the archive can handle, else you'll just run into errors or blank pages with absolutely nothing.
Regression is basically guaranteed when people believe they don't need to pass on their knowledge because the people of the future won't need it, and that's happened a lot over the past 50 years.
Be Brave™
But seriously, one of the reasons I use brave search primarily is that it basically does that automatically with its "discussions" section, except it pulls from other sites with user discussion too, so you get forum results and shit if there are any relevant ones.
It's just beginning. AI will make everything worse. You already can see dogshit fake AI generated sites. Soon you will not even able to find any information about game artists and their art
Did a job for that last year, proofchecking search engines and reviewing results. It taught me how vile SEO is and how so many websites just do scraped content that's the most soul suckingly generic. I remember looking up BG3 builds and I'd get these fly-by-night probably run by Pajeet websites that would offer the most inane homosexualry tips instead of actual earnestly made content. It'd be like "best BG3 paladin build" and it'd just list the fricking spells and everything in the class. Not in terms of godly rpgbot where they are ranked and explained but more like someone just went and grabbed the wiki page and shoved it on their site now watch our ads please good sirs do not redeem the ublock sirs.
Even worse if you are searching for any, ANY kind of practical information. Like pet behavior, cleaning bathrooms, whatever. Strangely enough cooking and recipes is the one area where even with mommy-blogging spamming you with their life story you actually get meaningful content at the end instead of Rajesh wasting your time with platitudes and the most copy-and-pasted boilerplate responses about a subject.
>recipes
This shit is what drives me the most insane. Thankfully most cooking sites added a "jump to recipe" button, but that was only after someone made an extension that did it already.
>recipes
I hate that shit so fricking much. No one has ever cared about your fricking experience in New England, give me the fricking recipe for a decent Shepard's Pie you inane c**t
Use "site:reddit.com" instead anon, optionally with the subreddit for even more specificity.
Install old reddit redirect so you don't have to deal with the mongoloid phone design
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-reddit-redirect/dneaehbmnbhcippjikoajpoabadpodje
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/
im never going on techalphabet.info anyways.
~~*they*~~ just need to come up with a search engine that only indexes whitelisted websites >erm but muh shrinking internet
its too late. it's a lost cause.
Seriously, every time I look up anything related to a fix it's nothing but page's and page's of barely related or entirely unrelated articles written by company tech-illiterates that'll write 8 paragraphs about the history of the software/game/etc just to then give a solution of "turn it off and on again and if that doesn't work, contact the relevant support team :^)"
There needs to be an Internet 2 exclusively used for containing the thousands of terabytes of bloated useless articles out there
One trick for F*ndom is to click on the image to open the image popup window, and then right click on "See full size image" and select "Save Link As". It'll then let you save it in the original file format.
One trick for F*ndom is to click on the image to open the image popup window, and then right click on "See full size image" and select "Save Link As". It'll then let you save it in the original file format.
I just remove this part of the url then save the picture.
Feels natural when you roam too much the net.
But yeah it's fricked that we had to do shit like that all the time though whatever that's the world we live in.
Something that does work sometimes is to add the "auto=" parameter at the end.
>The two best wikis in existence are both runescape wikis
Why cant any other game produce any reasonable form of wiki? Does it require the autism of runescape to achieve it?
>fextralife >fandom
I don't understand how these two managed to get over wikis and user content in general. I'm at a point where I wish gamefaqs would come back.
Yeah. That's why, in Firefox, I disable we... >image.webp.enabled is missing from about:config among other things
Am I moronic? were options removed a few versions back or something?
>Game has two wikis >Fandom one has god-awful layout but actually has lore info, information on devs, development, and other shit like that >Non-Fandom one is strictly all business, only gameplay information
No one else remembers it but in like 2010 or something, well before they ever officialized the fan wikis, Jagex tried making their own official Wiki hosted on the Runescape website and it fricking sucked ass. It was nothing but blank placeholder pages and for some reason it always came up before the good fan wikis in searches. It was like fextralife before fextralife.
you know what, that does sound familiar. that was after they discontinued the knowledge base, or was this them trying to revamp it or something like that?
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/
it doesn't just contain info but aslo in-depth explanations of how too use and exploit everything in the game. pretty much every answer too every question can be found there
Yeah, BA Wiki is pretty good if you're looking solely for the ingame info.
But I wish they'd do something like Kancolle wiki, and have a section for merchandise, official manga and other promo stuff like that.
Contributors sharing their login info.
Not even for the encryption because there are non https ways of doing that. Just so they're sure they're not getting mitm'd.
https://clover-wiki-replacement.netlify.app/
Minimalism for the win.
For a non-videogame example:
https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
No blogtext with opinions by the editor about characters, places, etc, just straight information right out of the books.
>all war and authoritarianism disappearing from the world after the west cuts off the supply of dark souls weapon descriptions and 60% of youtube music from russia and belarus
>https://www.bloodborne-wiki.com/
is goated
it has so much organized info on everything, including cut content and datamining
so of course gaystralife and fandom are the 2 that show up in google before anything
Bloodborne wiki is the gold standard, I can't believe that a game like ER that sold 20 million copies still only has fextralife, and doesn't have half of the info, like individual damage values for each swing in a weapon's R1 animation combo
if they can't censor or control it they'll just make it unusable so expect everything to continue getting worse on purpose. just like every other facet of society is intentionally made worse.
>jfif >webp
why was this shit even invented other than to be annoying
webp is a better compression than jpeg or something. The creator goes on twitter and defends the format too lmao. It sucks because it doesn't work with half of software. Plug jpeg is fine for what it does, everyone has big drives these days
.jfif is annoying because it's just a jpeg file and someone in the pipeline from the web app to the web server to your browser to your OS should be able to solve it. Either recognize it as a canonical jpeg file extension or serve the correct extension or whatever. I'll also go to bat for webp and avif for similar reasons, they are just objectively better formats than jpeg and png, with good library support, and application developers refuse to make it easy for you to use them. Fricking webp support on Ganker when?
Frick Wikia-Fandom though and frick Fextralife, why are wikifarm owners such israelites
It’s how he became a homosexual to begin with. Somebody spoonfed him. I’m sure that’s also how your impressive career of professional homosexualry got its start.
It’s how he became a homosexual to begin with. Somebody spoonfed him. I’m sure that’s also how your impressive career of professional homosexualry got its start.
Even if it works only 30% of the time it's still better than typing shit by hand.
Frick captchas
Frick webp
Frick cookie pupups
Frick all the invasive ads
Why is the internet trying to be as troublesome for the user as possible?
>captchas
botting >webp
goolag >cookie pupups
GDPR (at they're looking into fixing it) >invasive ads
more people using adblockers unironically made site owners shove more ads into the faces of those who don't have one installed yet
>mfw seeing fluoridated NPC's on twatter defend webp saying it's so much better and lighter than PNG and JPG with such good quality and that it's impopular because of le evil dumb tech industry who didn't implement it well
>>mfw seeing fluoridated NPC's on twatter defend webp saying it's so much better and lighter than PNG and JPG
I have seen this dogshit in my twitter too. >webp is better than PNG because it's lighter !!!
Literally wtf?
>mfw seeing fluoridated NPC's on twatter defend webp saying it's so much better and lighter than PNG and JPG with such good quality and that it's impopular because of le evil dumb tech industry who didn't implement it well
>trying to fit
Entire japan is using twitter to post their art. Everyone use twitter for news too. Even your developers are posting here online (especially devs of small games).
No, little zoom-zoom, I use it exactly for that. And you should stop trying to fit.
3 months ago
Anonymous
you are complaining about shit you read on twitter while at the same time telling me that you don't read anything on twitter and only use it for art. you don't see the contradiction here?
>but I doubt japanese artists or indie devs are posting about webp or other who cares shit
It this function they use. You should know about it >posting stuff on shitbooru
I don't want to be rude but this is gigagaygatory.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>It this function they use
why are turd worlders allowed to post here? god i miss when you subhumans didn't have internet
3 months ago
Anonymous
>I don't want to be rude but this is gigagaygatory.
ah yes, cause art being only available on a walled off shitty website is better than on a well organized and easy to browse free for everyone to use
bait used to be good
3 months ago
Anonymous
>bait
It's not bait, he's a third worlder. He just has a double digit iq.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>bait used to be good >shitbooru
Anon, shitbooru (danbooru) was hated by everyone. It's literally paywalled shit site now with curated content. You at least could use gelbooru or something.
3 months ago
Anonymous
danbooru is better tagged than gelbooru and everything gets reposted to gelbooru anyway
its not even paywalled its just walled off since they cant figure out a payment processor for like a year and a half now (just upload a 1000 pictures bro!)
3 months ago
Anonymous
If you do it for sake of art preservation you can use hydrus. Turn your PC into booru.
Any chance of Elon making Twitter become a better site for image archiving ?
No. It's the opposite. See shadowbans, censorship, algorithms (ask /ic/) nuked accounts. Not very art friendly.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>See shadowbans, censorship, algorithms (ask /ic/) nuked accounts. Not very art friendly.
Oh Im not talking about that front. I dont expect those things to ever go away.
I meant UX improvements for storing and searching art, like better tag system, a better archive with indexing for searching different images, etc.
3 months ago
Anonymous
See all those issues are connect. Did you notice how rarely artists use hashtags now? Why? There is big chance to get ban for using hashtags. Especially similar hashtags for multiple pictures not even posted in the same day. Shadowbans prevent them from appearing in search even if you click their hashtag. Or they can be marked as bots and nuked without explanation.
3 months ago
Anonymous
NTA, but WTF? Why would anyone get banned for proper tagging?
3 months ago
Anonymous
There's a lot of weird shit that gets you shadowbanned. >not logging in for more than a few months >interacting with an account that twitter doesn't like >saying a word that twitter doesn't like >links to other websites
3 months ago
Anonymous
Fighting bots and spam please undurustando 🙂 I think it was before Elon but after him they launched even more moron mysterious algorithms. Both japs and western artists have noticed decrease in views and retweets too. Twitter is trying anything in his power to hide art from users.
Anything else, little guy? I give you last dopamine hit.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Yes, I would like to say that the internet was way better when your shithole didn't have access to it. I hope one day moot comes back and rangebans every third world country from Ganker.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>I would like to say that the internet was way better
I don't think you're old enough to know anything about old internet. I guess you can read ED but still.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Your country didn't even have internet back then. >NO SIRS I AM WHITE JUST LIKE YOU
All of your posts are in broken, fricked up english. I know for a fact that you're from some brown shithole.
It really has nothing to do with fitting in. Twitter is just an awful website unless you only care about the most surface level shit of whatever hobby/culture/scene you're into. Please go back.
>most surface level shit of whatever hobby/culture/scene you're into >anime pic
You do know mangaka and artists, directors who made anime post on twitter right? Sometimes interesting information about their manga/anime? All announcements comes from twitter too? if anything it is sounds like you're ironic weeb trying to fit. Maybe even sankaku reader.
PNG is God's img filetype
anons, you can use XnConvert to easily convert any and multiple images to the format you want (and losslessly optimize at the same time)
Fandom is a fricking abhorrent wiki format but the only real thing wrong with it is the fact that it's free to use so any halfhearted moron can shit out a Wiki for a game and then never update it. A fandom wiki with actual wiki autists running them can be perfectly fine and provide good information.
>use google images to search for an image (meme) >every single result is just the thumbnail of a product to be sold
How long until search engines aren't even usable anymore?
What year did goggle absolutely lobotomize their reverse image search into uselessness again? That was the first moment where search engines suddenly started to get worse.
i have no clue how google reverse image search is so bad. tineye is even more fricking useless.
yandex is the best by a country mile, the ruskis got us beat out
>want to look a combo for a fightan up >wiki hasn't been edited in x years >"Yeah bro you gotta join the discord for that, plenty of newish combos have been found"
I hate the modern internet
The reason I hate this shit so much is that after you making the account it's still just a yes/no or date birth thing. Apparently it's so companies can completely wash their hands of shit when minors access it by saying "Actually it's in our ToS to not lie about your age and you agreed when you signed up" but I have no clue if that's true
Pretty sure this has to do with EU regulation. Youtube asks me for an ID when I attempt to watch an age restricted video, even though my account is old enough for the possibility of being to be minimal. Add to that the fact that youtube videos get age restricted for basically no reason half the time, the site has declined considerably since the mid 2010s. Oh and frick double ads.
t. europoor
Ironically, I've never seen porn sites do the second. Half the time, you can clearly see the porn thumbnails before they prompt you for your age with nothing more than a simple yes/no check. Meanwhile, 99% of normalgay sites want phone numbers just to browse them
If you're not sending regular death threats to anyone associated with Fextralife you're not doing your part to make the internet a more tolerable place.
.webp is a good format though and more websites should support it.
>very information is hidden behind discords
Look at Armored Core for example. If you try to google you will find nothing worth it.
But if you open discord you will find all existing guides for pvp, all information about emulation and multiplayer for PS2 games.
I wonder if people migrating to discord is a result of SEO and existing wikis being pure cancer
Sure you could make a wiki from the ground up but that's way more effort than just dumping shit into discord.
I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET
how much did fextralife pay to get the top google search result for so many games when their wikis are so fricking garbage and often you'll just click on one and there won't even be anything on the page
>find an image to post on google >is a webp image from reddit >reverse google image search so i don't have to perform procedures then save the file on computer >all of the images are also webp images from reddit
I use Ganker archive as google replacement too. If you want to buy something and need honest review about the product from owners. Reddit isn't reliable because of shills and karma
>autistic weirdos who actually care about *subject* >soulless corpo algorithms that only use subject as way to mine your info and farm card revenue
I know which I prefer 99% of the time
Same, tbharchive and b4k are more useful than google at this point >wow Ganker is shit today >search for threads that interest me on the archive >have a good time
Search engine optimization websites manipulate their tags to appear first on Google. All the things you listed cancerous. Dotasports is another bad one that appears. Websites that read like machine written paragrah vomits and ads that crash. I have to use GameFAQs sometimes for shit now.
I like fandom because they got images next to most of their links.
On other wikis it's usually just links until you click on a page.
I'm not seeing the ads people cry about either because I use an adblocker.
Because you don't know what type of file you have, whether lossy or lossless.. No way of knowing until you save it, and then open it in a hex editor to check the header. It's a fricking mystery meat file.
>The two best wikis in existence are both runescape wikis
Why cant any other game produce any reasonable form of wiki? Does it require the autism of runescape to achieve it?
That c**t Fextra is doing it for Dragon's Dogma currently. I went to that shitpit of a site for one reason or another and saw his gay botting stream playing it, obviously prepping for DD2. Hate that motherfricker so much. There's already a well-documented wiki, and has been for years now. That homosexual is such an awful wiki creator. Most of the other wikis he makes are not even half complete or filled with so much misinformation.
It's pretty much a single guy behind Fextra and I don't think they really can? I don't know how wikis really work in terms of rules and hosting. And while others can add/ edit the articles, they're completely filled with bullshit because he's the one that initially makes the pages by playing the game as much as possible and trying to complete it before anyone else so he can be the top result. Top that with embedding his stream (can't do it anymore from twitch lmao) so his stream was artificially viewed on twitch, he's a fricking scumbag host. Now he's got his own hosted stream site because twitch doesn't allow embedding anymore. He might, keyword "might", also be paying google or whoever to make sure his wiki is always top result. Call me a schizo for that, but the other shit is 100% true.
Aside from being on fandom, the DD wiki is pretty good. I don't know why people who clearly care about a series choose to set up shop there in the first place, the experience is horrible. Goes for reddit too.
Were Fandom and Reddit designed by the same guy? They're literally as inefficient as sites can be, bloated to the point of near-unusability, riddled with intrusive ads. I'm thankful this place, in comparison, barely changed since 2004. Way more intuitive at every level.
It's an older hipster extension for jpg that arose when there was squabbling over what the official one would be. The usual shit happened too where some big software adopted one at first, while others used the second. We sort of see the same thing still with there being both jpg and jpeg in use.
>search for some mundane vidya thing >every result is reddit >have to click 5 separate "click here to read 11 more replies" links before I actually find the thing that google parsed to even have that link appear in the first place >the information there is completely wrong or outdated
dead internet theory refers to more than just MUH AIs, seriously
I sincerely don't understand who actually uses reddit, it's such a dogshit website
>>have to click 5 separate "click here to read 11 more replies" links Before I actually find the thing that google parsed to even have that link
this is the thing I cannot stand about reddit. When you're forced to visit it for some solution and you have to expand a thread and it goes to another fricking page to load more comments. Why?!
>>have to click 5 separate "click here to read 11 more replies" links Before I actually find the thing that google parsed to even have that link
this is the thing I cannot stand about reddit. When you're forced to visit it for some solution and you have to expand a thread and it goes to another fricking page to load more comments. Why?!
>OP is a straightforward question >first few responses are unfunny injokes >have to click to expand to get the actual information
It's like a competiton between the UI and the userbase on which can be worse.
>dead internet theory refers to more than just MUH AIs, seriously
Dead internet theory is specifically about botting. It's not just a term for the general enshittening of web design and services, it refers to a specific phenomenon.
Seriously, it's like they have a number of preprogrammed responses, whether they post them on their own or start a post with them. They're genuinely human NPCs.
reddit might as well be a bunch of bots talking to each other, that's how it reads
Reddit is engineered so that nothing is challenging and you only see the most democratically sanitized posts pushed to the top. So every user is trained to try and think of the most appealing reply to their in-group.
Unlike here, frick all you Black folk
Seriously, it's like they have a number of preprogrammed responses, whether they post them on their own or start a post with them. They're genuinely human NPCs.
>most of their responses are useless information or jokes
When Ganker dies I'm just killing myself. I would rather be dead than use reddit
Reddit is such a garbage website, it's so bad that even the fricking OP of a general thread on Ganker can be more useful. What the frick is even the point of the upvote system when useful information gets buried under snarky joss whedon comments? Why do people upvote "LE NARWHAL BACON AT MIDNIGHT xDDD" instead of the answer to the fricking question and additional information about the thread topic? Are they there just to look at these fricking hilarious reddit comments instead of useful information?
I can't fathom the mind of a redditor. It's like that little dopamine hit is all they live for. The actual gayest fricking thing. >What the frick is even the point of the upvote system when useful information gets buried under snarky joss whedon comments?
It has gotten so bad that I despise snark on principle at this point. A coworker suggested I start going to reddit for any Sys Admin questions I had and the first fricking post I made had some jackass making trying to be a comedian. Fricking piece of shit website and piece of shit "community."
>go to store >look up game related stuff for when I come back while in the queue >mobile data gets eaten up by the honest trailers behind the scenes discussion
Thank you
>google "how to [thing]" >first result is someone asking this on reddit >check replies >"why? just use [shittier thing]" 528 karma >author replies "I need [thing] specifically, because..." -3 karma >no other answers
>check replies >30 comment long unfunny meme chain with a gorillion karma >actual answer buried at the bottom with 3 updoots
God I fricking hate reddit, let's see how Quora is doin... >absolute schizo writing a thesis statement of complete nonsense >not even really answering the actual question, I have no idea what they're answering
the epitome of clickbait website and they've been utterly hemorrhaging money since twitch stopped letting them embed their shitty immune to adblock stream on their website which was their whole play
most of their """""wikis"""""" are utterly lazy garbage that they stop updating a month or 2 after [insert game here] releases
>Seach something for a game >MASSIVE SPOILER RIGHT IN YOUR FACE >What you're looking up is either not even there or buried so far that you'll never find it
I had to lookup several full playthroughs just to find out what an item does in some games, it's cancer
Word. I could spot the day they turned facebook search worse when I couldn't search all of the posts oneitis ever wrote anymore.
Image search is mega shitty now too, I could find all accounts of someone by profile pic alone years ago.
>be playing cyberslop 2077 >google simply for a list of shotguns with stats bc that's the build I'm doing and I want a starting point >first result is fextralife >their "list" only has like 6 guns on it, all the stats are wrong and weren't even accurate on the patch where the info was pulled from >be utterly confused bc even when CP2077 was super looter shootery there were only like 13 shotguns total
jesus christ I completely understand why autist dark souls eceleb streamers hate Fextralife so much
The internet HAS to go back to the way it was.
It's crumbling under it's own weight at this point, as well as just ruining everything and being worse for everybody.
i don't like webm because I can't figure out the witchcraft behind making good looking small file size ones
I didn't mean webm but frick it let's talk about it
I unironically think its the greatest. When Ganker added webm it really modernized the website without taking away from the original spirit of gif
I'm very happy you can post webm here, and I wish all boards would allow for sound at user discretion.
But I hate having to go scroll and click 'close' on a webm when it's short enough to just be a gif and has no sound.
i wasn't trying to poopoo webm by replying to you, I'm just bad at making them
I can never get a good balance between bitrate/resolution/length like other people can so I just gave up with it. Every time I make one it almost always looks like shit
if you go to save an image and it tries to save as a webp file, you can right-click Copy Image and Paste it into Paint where you can save it as a regular jpg or png.
twitter has become much worse with him in charge
before it was a giant political bubble shithole, now it is exactly the same thing + a bunch of companies creating thousands upon thousands of bot blue checkmark accounts to engagement farm for pennies.
>Try to look up the solution to a simple windows issue >30% of the results are a bunch of nameless tech support sites clearly ran by pajeets that manage to go page after page without actually giving a solution worth a shit >30% are the above but it's incomprehensible gibberish written by AI instead >30% are posts made on the microsoft forums with incredibly hit or miss answers made by microsoft windows ''''''''''experts''''''''' >10% are vaguely related posts on reddit
>microsoft forums with incredibly hit or miss answers made by microsoft windows ''''''''''experts'''''''''
Probably the single worst thing of troubleshooting any Windows problem. These gays will say everything except the actual solution, making everyone suffer. This is doubly true for the people who actually consult them that are forced to wait forever in between non answers and being told to update Windows.
Even if no one else replies to your thread, I want you to know that you and I are brothers in this.
We're now 30-something boomers. Feelsbadman.
no idea what your image is of but he looks like the baby from Dinosaurs.
>Dinosaurs
Do remember the ending of this show? Jesus Christ.
Yeah, it didn't pussy-out and showed what it looks like when a family faces an unavoidable crisis.
you can open webp in paint and save them as pngs, probably an easier way but that's how I do it
Pic rel is for manual saving. Or use linux and write a script that automatically converts that crap to jpg, gif and png.
I just screenshot and save as a jpg.
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saveaspng extension if you use chromium based browsers
>if you use chromium based browsers
trash then
its not 2010 anymore moron
every good browser is chromium
and you still have to use google to search anyway
i dont see what difference it actually makes
>uses firefox to google search
its all performative at the end of the day
>he doesn't know
No Chromium browser is good.
it doesnt matter, you are using google anyway
>DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo!
LAUGHING MY FRICKING ASS OFF
>Brave Search uses its own web index. As of May 2022, it covered over 10 billion pages and was used to serve 92% of search results without relying on any third-parties, with the remainder being retrieved server-side from the Bing API or (on an opt-in basis) client-side from Google
its all performative
I use brave, and often times the results are so bad I go on google. There really isn't any perfect browser.
Just save manually and always put .png or .jpg when saving. Webp is a pointless file type
Those images still come up as corrupt/unable to post when trying to post them on Ganker or something. I have to open paint, copy the image and save as jpg every single time.
That's because in addition to being a container that can hold the other types, it also has its own format that can be used. Absolute trash. And here I remember when everyone was up MS's ass about inventing bullshit that was only compatible with Internet Explorer. Today Google does it constantly and the only thing passing the lips of normalgays is semen and "Please sir, I want some more."
Edge has a built-in basic editor, that allows you to instantly save pics as .png
I use an extension called WebP / Avif image converter. It removes any nonsense with 1 click.
>right click on webp image
>"copy image link"
>browse files on Ganker post
>paste image link into File Name field
>post
And wallah
"error corrupted media"
good job moronic zoomie you just found out why webp is cancer no matter how many cope circumventions you can make up such as
Get the "save webp as png or jpeg" extension, and give it clipboard access. Now when you open a png you can click a button to copy it to your clipboard, and then when you're writing a post you can hit ctrl+v to paste the image (at least if you're using Gankerx, I'm not sure if it works vanilla.
Or you can just use the extension to save it directly as a jpeg or png
I just use window's built in screenshot (winkey+shift+S) and then just paste it into a post or wherever I need to put it.
How the hell do you post screenshots into posts?
It might be a Ganker X feature but you can paste any image or .webm into the post and it should automatically upload it. Windows capture automatically copies to clipboard.
>It might be a Ganker X feature
This must be it. I know how the windows screen capture works, but I've never been able to paste files directly into a post. Always have to manually save the screenshot then select it from my files
just get Ganker X, or use an app like Chance if you're a disgusting phoneposter.
It is, I have no idea why - wikigays have only gotten more and more cliquey and insufferable since the days of Jimbo Wales.
Gankerx
Yeah but it’s annoying
That doesn't work for gifs
>you can open webp in paint and save them as pngs
yes and whoever changed every image to webp from jpg/png can fricking kill themselves
i thought my hatred for codeBlack folk could not grow any further, but i once saw a twatter thread on webp and about two thirds of them were praising the format for saving file size and bandwidth
>who cares about the users? it should all be about making my web design monkey job easier
I shouldn't have to do anything fricking different to save a fricking picture. Frick you anon.
Screenshot takes less time
>transparency now gone
>verifying you are human, please wait
>accept all cookies?
>please login to view this post
Shit like this has made using the internet an arduous chore. One of the primary benefits of the internet was accessibility to information, and now it's the opposite. Google, what was once the most powerful search engine, it's completely useless. Results are almost entirely SEO garbage with no information, and all you can do is manually filter the results. Alternative search engines are no better.
uBlock, "I don't care about cookies", BreezeWiki (redirects fandom sites to a cleaner mirror), and other extensions are all you can do at this point. Webshit has managed to regress one of the most powerful technologies into an unusable nightmare.
I fricking hate this shit so much it's unreal. SEO and all the other problems with the internet make it so much worse. These support forum threads always go the same way: OP will describe the issue in detail and what they've tried to fix it, then moron Certified Senior Microsoft Expert™ Pajeet Singh replies with the same boilerplate garbage not even addressing the issue. "Reinstall Windows", "Run antivirus", "restart your PC". Then they'll close the thread and mark it as solved. Random YouTube comments from 6 years ago will describe how to fix the problem, not "official support".
Grim.
>oh hey, I noticed you're searching for some info, how about I open this stream of a literal fricking who and fill your screen with adds
thank god for ublock origin but the fricking streams keep popping up.
First links to come up when looking up any fantasy action game, it really is tiresome...
That's your problem for using google. However I agree with you anon, you are not alone.
firefox has a webp blocker anon. you can also get it for firefox nightly on android
>google super simple game related question that can be answered in one sentence
>first four pages are all AI generated SEO garbage with twenty paragraphs of nonsense you didn't ask for before they get to the point
Frick, I hate this. And it's not just video game related.
this shit is the fricking bane of my existence this shit actually drives me insane and it applies to so much shit outside of video games as well. recently had this while trying to look up a super simple ableton issue and i got one of those annoying ass articles with this PLUS a fricking slideshow of images i had to sift through. what the actual frick.
>"This is when [X] will be released"
>ad
>wikipedia summary
>teaser trailer
>dev's history
>"[X]'s release date hasn't been announced yet but we'll let you know as soon as we know more!"
Shit like this is why I'm glad the "Saved You A Click Video Games" Twitter account exists.
whats stopping browsers from going back to how they used it index search results?
This is a legitimate reason to use ChatGPT nowadays.
Except when it grabs one of the incorrect AI articles as answer, and then just lies to your face.
chatgpt is half the reason shit is as bad as it is. And why it's only going to get worse from now on as more and more of the internet is filled by AI generated nonsense webpages designed to grab clicks for ad revenue.
AIs aren't even reliable for factual information. Fandom used to have this AI FAQ section which just spouted nonsense and they had to get rid of it due to backlash.
>everyone said for years that knowledge retention is useless because you can just google everything
>now all search engines have crumpled under the weight of AI and become functionally worthless
We're hardcore regressing while we progress, incredible
Turns out change =/= progress.
It was called book burning in the past. You change paper into ashes. And then the library ceases to be, and humanity falls down some stairs again.
Humans definitely have the technology to do this planet justice. There's just nobody who cares.
And I've never met a happy person.
holy frick this is so annoying, happened to me recently with palworld when I wanted to find out where to get quartz, it was article after article of bullshit before I finally found a map which actually just showed what I wanted
this is by far the most rage inducing shit right now
it's almost unbelievable. I was gonna link one of those here but everyone fricking knows what those look like, it's always formatted as a "list" of steps even for the most mundane shit
super simple game related question that can be answered in one sentence
>there are no text based answeres, its all 15 minute long youtube videos of some pajeet rambling about random horse shit before he answers the question
>Video collectible guides instead of screenshot collectible guides that show you exactly where the item is in one second of Ctrl+Fing instead of like a minute of scrolling through a video.
AI has fricked up google images too I fricking hate it
The quality of google search results has gone way down. Even my parent use DuckDuckGo now.
>nvm fixed it
>pmed you the fix :^)
>google it
>you must be logged in to view this post
I despise this shit so much. I make a point now whenever I'm looking for some obscure bug fix to spam my solution on every Reddit thread and link I followed on my attempt to solve it. Some day in the future, someone will need to walk down my trail.
>Posts on reddit
Frick that. Go back.
I post on here and use good key words so that chads searching the archives might come across it.
Cool.
>thread locked no necro posting
or
>Must sign up to view this post
>search timed out try again in 6 sec
I hate forums so much
my personal favorite being when the patch for a game is on fichier.de or some shit and you wait for 10 minutes to download a 500kb .dll and the download fails for whatever reason and you reach your 'limit' for the day and have to wait 24 hours just for the download to fail again.
>[REMOVED]
>This is a private subreddit
so much actually useful info lost for fricking nothing
>google search xyz
pages of fricking nothing
>search xyz reddit
>first link is the exact question i asked and a perfect answer upvoted to the top of the page
now there is a 50/50 chance you get a private or dead sub
>deleted
Reddit is such fricking garbage and I hate that it's in the results of any tech-questions.
>Works on my machine :^)
Now that discord has replaced forums it's going to be impossible to look up fixes for current and future software
>google something for cyberpunk
>first result is fextralife for some reason
>all the information on the page is from version 1.1 and it looked like they just gave up halfway through
thank god twitch removed the ability to embed streams
The state of Cyberpunk documentation is fricking ABYSMAL. the wiki sucks donkey dick, there's an entirely seperate and equally as shitty one for the FF:06:B5 mystery for some reason, and the TCRF page is absolute dogshit.
https://tcrf.net/Cyberpunk_2077
>there's an entirely seperate and equally as shitty one for the FF:06:B5 mystery for some reason
fricking why? Isn't that just an ARG basically?
I hate .webp so much it's unreal
The internet and the world are worse now than in the 90s and 00s.
you all just hate webp cause asiaticmoot doesn't support it
Trve
i hate it because it uses lossy compression.
dont need another file extension. simple as
I hate it because google used their market monopoly to force webp onto the internet and to snuff the superior JPEG-XL. Luckily for once I can side with Apple because they're supporting it in Safari, and I hope that puts the pressure on Google.
Name one advantage to webp that made it worth being shoved down our throats despite being compatible with frick all
saves bandwidth for the hosters
Storage is unbelievable cheap these days and it's even cheaper when a datacenter orders their bulk supply of 24TB HDDs at a wholesale discount. Saving .02kb of space is not worth it for how shit it is overall.
i said BANDWIDTH you fricking mongrel ape
i pirated all of my games have a nice day
>reee why wont consumers support Epic Games Store, dont they know developers make slightly more money on there!!!
I guaran fricking tee that all it would take for Ganker to support webp uploads would be a single line in the config changed, from
>image/jpg, image/png, image/gif, video/webm
to
>image/jpg, image/png, image/gif, image/webp, video/webm
All of the backend software, imagemagick etc., has supported webp for years. It's literally just maintainers refusing to do a basic bit of fricking maintenance.
It's not the tech industry at large, some kind of conspiracy or something. At large webp is well supported, it's literally just sysadmins and package maintainers being lazy fricks (and I can say this because I am a sysadmin) refusing to make it easy for users to use. It's the last link of the chain making it hard on you.
Also to tell on myself a bit:
iOS doesn't support webm which is insanely well established. I run a website that serves a bunch of video files in webm and mp4 format. My boss keeps asking me to implement a support library to help iToddlers watch the webms, it's like a webm decoder that loads in the browser or something. And I keep putting it off.
That's what's fricking with you. That's why you have such trouble with webp, is people like me being too goddamn lazy to do our jobs. I'm still not going to implement that webm decoder after making this post.
itoddlers (BTFO) deserve it thoughever
iToddlers deserve it though. Keep up the good work, anon.
no, I hate it because google came up with it, so it must be nefarious in nature.
Windows barely fricking supports it. I'd be fine with it if google didn't get everyone to switch to it before it had any kind of widespread support.
>Windows barely fricking supports it
Windows 10 and 11 support it just fine.
>tourist doesn't know
They tried once. No one want webp here
>They tried once
And the next day a webm zero day vulnerability was uncovered. It's an odd coincidence isn't it
it's google expansionist walled garden israelitery and I will have none of it
I hate the antichrist
Hope you're using firefox and you're not halfassing it with brave or some shit
Not him but brave became shit almost 2 years ago no one uses it anymore
No we hate because it doesn't work at all, it's broken even on Google.
fextraBlack person got bullied off the internet
google search is killing the internet singlehandedly. It can't even view cached sites any more
lol google is the one that cached them in the first place, tard
Where did I state otherwise, dumbass? You're the moron here defending google removing useful features. You're next post will be a justification about how search is better now the ability to view the cached version was removed
>offers thing for free
>"...."
>stops offering thing
>"NOOOO YOU CANT DO THAT YOURE KILLING ME AAAAA"
Now you're just being a fricking spastic. Is it, or is it not, better for the changes? y/n?
i dont trust google so better. use an archive service
webp is a better for smaller sizes.
>Fandom.com: When the wiki absolutely, positively has to require more CPU power to display than the game you're trying to find a guide for, accept no substitutes!
And that CPU is spent loading 15 different embedded ads and popups. Also imagine how much data they’re trying to harvest from your device.
>tfw you need multiple adblockers, web extensions and basic web design know-how to make modern wikis usable
>Want to know how a 30+ year old episode of Star Trek TNG was made
>Need to open up my laptop with adblocker just to run the wiki in a usable state
This is not the future I wanted. Imagine having to explain this to my 10 year old self in 2004.
Excuse me sir, those 5 kilobytes that they save per image by using webp mean they can lower their cost to operate, which gives them more money they can use to not pay their contributors!
There're extensions now for saving that shit as .png's. Frick webp.
also this works for posting webps here
Very funny
it takes 5 seconds to try it yourself.
I did try it, doesn't work. Hence, "very funny."
then youre moronic
You considered this is a functionality of a certain extension and not hardcoded into the site?
imagine browsing vanilla Ganker. holy shit you are actually moronic. i bet you dont use an ad blocker either.
paste it into the file input, not the text input.
works with the text input for me on chrome
hahahaaa you just got TROLLED fricking newbie
this never works for me anymore and i don't know why. it used to work for me then one day it just stopped.
fandom and reddit are both websites that convert pngs hosted on their website to webp. they're actually hosted as pngs but are being converted automatically by the website because your browser has webp listed as an accpeted format. a little bit of code can prevent it from happening.
Tell me more, I'm tech illiterate.
same. you can add this on firefox nightly for android if you put it into debug mode
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/
>right click image
>copy image
>open post thing on Ganker
>ctrl+v
no need to thank me young jit
>avif
I just use an extension but why doesn't Ganker allow webp anyway
It has webm support and webp is just the image equivalent isn't it
webdev bullied moot into allowing webm as a now resource .gif replacement
nakamura doesn't give a shit enough to be bullied
I suggest this site either adds webp support or adds another vtuber board
webp is a good format thoughever
there's absolutely nothing wrong with PNG. we live in the day an age where fricking smartphones have a terabyte of flash memory and double digit gigabytes of RAM. there's zero excuse to be israeli with file size.
doesn't matter when the apps utilizing said memory are spaghetti coded javashit that choke to death in a pool of their own blood and vomit as soon as you load one too many jpegs and can't even use more than 1 core of your CPU anyway (like the new Steam client that STILL hasn't fixed the fricking back button causing an overflow or some shit resetting the whole process booting you back to the library page)
Storage has nothing to do with website capacity efficiency you dumb frick
also how read about a game or movie or anything on wikipedia and spend three clicks getting through to the original file of the poster/box art and its 200px high every time now
>Need to get info on a specific series of mods based on a particular mod for one game
>Visit an old forum for it that had information, people's own versions of the mod, hacky patches, and attempts to update it for the current engine branch of the game
>It's dead
>It hits me like a truck and I now remember the owner of the forum said he's putting it in read-only mode and then killing it after some time passes because nobody uses forums anymore discord is the future
The internet has left me in despair.
>you must be signed in to see this post
>an admin has to confirm your email for registration
I'd rather have this then deal with
>go to discord in a private tab for a fetish mod
>sign in as a guest
>get redirected to sign in with my actual account
>the channel with the link is invisible and can only be accessed by asking a bot
>can only talk after completing a bunch of steps
>one of the steps is providing my fricking phone number
>leave because why the frick would I give that out
The Discord shit drives me absolutely fricking insane. I don't know how a fricking Teamspeak clone started replace forums.
So much information and discussion is now sequestered away into private little areas gated by proprietary software. We're witnessing a fricking internet Dark Age happen before our eyes. All internet history will be clearly traceable up to a certain point and then will just fricking stop as Discord takes that all and deletes it forever.
And yeah, the slow squeezing away of privacy through garbage like phone number identification. Using the internet in the future means 20 fricking privacy and filter add-ons and burner phone numbers to get the same default experience of 2004 internet. It's absolutely rancid.
It is used exclusively by those who long for power over others and any game or game community that uses a discord as their primary info resource is not one you should support in any way. Words cannot describe my unbridled hatred for discord homosexuals.
>We're witnessing a fricking internet Dark Age happen before our eyes.
It's been happening for a long time now. How many old forums died because it was hacked and the Admin either didn't have a backup or just couldn't be bothered? How many web1.0 websites are still around? How much information has been thrown away because 3rd party imagehosting websites deleted those images to save disk space?
You're correct, but archiving and scraping still existed. The information was just there and you could go grab it and file it away somewhere if needed.
Now that's not even an option, all that stuff is tucked away in little boxes you can't get to.
It's like seeing Humanity regress. For a brief instance in our human experience, we were all conversing in a shared space instead of limited by geographical or organisational barriers. Now we're back to that shit again, everyone going into little rooms and little cults to keep all their precious information secret.
Sounds like what we need is a discord scraper, that retrieves all downloadable files and builds a basic HTML copy of the chat(maybe even using AI to filter out useless rambling).
>but archiving and scraping still existed.
Registered-user-only subforums also existed, which scraping wouldn't grab unless it somehow managed to have an account to said forum with proper permissions. Navigating old forum archives even these days is also a gamble as to whether or not the old archived links are formatted in a way that the archive can handle, else you'll just run into errors or blank pages with absolutely nothing.
Regression is basically guaranteed when people believe they don't need to pass on their knowledge because the people of the future won't need it, and that's happened a lot over the past 50 years.
>have to append "reddit" to every single search to get even remotely useful results
SEO has been a disaster for the human race
wow i havent watched that show with english subs in years, sad to see how inaccurate they are
I actually don't see what's wrong with that translation
Unfortunately it's been "optimized" for advertisers, not usage.
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Be Brave™
But seriously, one of the reasons I use brave search primarily is that it basically does that automatically with its "discussions" section, except it pulls from other sites with user discussion too, so you get forum results and shit if there are any relevant ones.
It's just beginning. AI will make everything worse. You already can see dogshit fake AI generated sites. Soon you will not even able to find any information about game artists and their art
Did a job for that last year, proofchecking search engines and reviewing results. It taught me how vile SEO is and how so many websites just do scraped content that's the most soul suckingly generic. I remember looking up BG3 builds and I'd get these fly-by-night probably run by Pajeet websites that would offer the most inane homosexualry tips instead of actual earnestly made content. It'd be like "best BG3 paladin build" and it'd just list the fricking spells and everything in the class. Not in terms of godly rpgbot where they are ranked and explained but more like someone just went and grabbed the wiki page and shoved it on their site now watch our ads please good sirs do not redeem the ublock sirs.
Even worse if you are searching for any, ANY kind of practical information. Like pet behavior, cleaning bathrooms, whatever. Strangely enough cooking and recipes is the one area where even with mommy-blogging spamming you with their life story you actually get meaningful content at the end instead of Rajesh wasting your time with platitudes and the most copy-and-pasted boilerplate responses about a subject.
It's pretty tragic
>recipes
This shit is what drives me the most insane. Thankfully most cooking sites added a "jump to recipe" button, but that was only after someone made an extension that did it already.
>recipes
I hate that shit so fricking much. No one has ever cared about your fricking experience in New England, give me the fricking recipe for a decent Shepard's Pie you inane c**t
Use "site:reddit.com" instead anon, optionally with the subreddit for even more specificity.
Install old reddit redirect so you don't have to deal with the mongoloid phone design
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-reddit-redirect/dneaehbmnbhcippjikoajpoabadpodje
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/
im never going on techalphabet.info anyways.
~~*they*~~ just need to come up with a search engine that only indexes whitelisted websites
>erm but muh shrinking internet
its too late. it's a lost cause.
Seriously, every time I look up anything related to a fix it's nothing but page's and page's of barely related or entirely unrelated articles written by company tech-illiterates that'll write 8 paragraphs about the history of the software/game/etc just to then give a solution of "turn it off and on again and if that doesn't work, contact the relevant support team :^)"
There needs to be an Internet 2 exclusively used for containing the thousands of terabytes of bloated useless articles out there
Still better than
>discord
>israelitebook
>Wiki dot
One trick for F*ndom is to click on the image to open the image popup window, and then right click on "See full size image" and select "Save Link As". It'll then let you save it in the original file format.
What If I just open the image then save it there?
"See full size image" gives the .webp version, despite the link saying .png (or whatever the original format happens to be). Very strange.
I just remove this part of the url then save the picture.
>have to do heart surgery just to save an image
Feels natural when you roam too much the net.
But yeah it's fricked that we had to do shit like that all the time though whatever that's the world we live in.
Great movie.
neat
Still saves as webp here.
Something that does work sometimes is to add the "auto=" parameter at the end.
Which ones?
>Still saves as webp here.
Weird, it works for me on brave (chromium) and firefox.
>gachaslop
I love how defensive the webp creator gets online whenever someone criticizes the format
I hope a car drives over his foot
>sir we found the three BBCs you were looking for
>fextralife
>fandom
I don't understand how these two managed to get over wikis and user content in general. I'm at a point where I wish gamefaqs would come back.
Yeah. That's why, in Firefox, I disable we...
>image.webp.enabled is missing from about:config among other things
Am I moronic? were options removed a few versions back or something?
Shouldn't he be smoking a pipe?
All the real Gs used Demon's Souls wikidot
I don't mind webm, but the 4MB limit on here is annoying as frick. I have WebM for Dummies, but still.
learn to read
I miss fallout gamepedia
>Game has two wikis
>Fandom one has god-awful layout but actually has lore info, information on devs, development, and other shit like that
>Non-Fandom one is strictly all business, only gameplay information
sounds like removing the fandom one would result in nothing of value being lost
post actually good wikis
>https://www.bloodborne-wiki.com/
>https://rainworld.miraheze.org/wiki/Rain_World_Wiki
https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page
i love how wikia just copies articles from this one without even trying to hide it
https://www.poewiki.net/
https://www.khwiki.com/
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page
The undisputed champion.
For sure. It’s more fun than the games.
://www.bloodborne-wiki.com/
Holy SOVL, never seen that before
https://runescape.wiki/
>wiki has a gambling hotline
No one else remembers it but in like 2010 or something, well before they ever officialized the fan wikis, Jagex tried making their own official Wiki hosted on the Runescape website and it fricking sucked ass. It was nothing but blank placeholder pages and for some reason it always came up before the good fan wikis in searches. It was like fextralife before fextralife.
you know what, that does sound familiar. that was after they discontinued the knowledge base, or was this them trying to revamp it or something like that?
SOVL
The Homestar Runner wiki but it's down at the moment
https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/
That Bloodborne one looks especially soulful
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/
it doesn't just contain info but aslo in-depth explanations of how too use and exploit everything in the game. pretty much every answer too every question can be found there
https://kiranico.com/
Monster Hunter wikis for 3U, 4U, X, XX, World, Rise, and Stories
Any wiki that isn't fandom or fextralife is pretty soulful.
UESP is still the king
long live m0use.net
https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/Main_Page
It gets the job done well. If you play this shit.
Yeah, BA Wiki is pretty good if you're looking solely for the ingame info.
But I wish they'd do something like Kancolle wiki, and have a section for merchandise, official manga and other promo stuff like that.
My homie
SUPERIOR korean autism wiki coming in
https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%86%8C%EB%9D%BC%EC%82%AC%ED%82%A4%20%ED%9E%88%EB%82%98/%EB%93%9C%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4
Neat but I can't read moonrunes (forma de asiatic)
http://darksouls2.wikidot.com/
the only good dark souls wiki is for dark SOULs 2
this plus
>you got permabanned because one of the admins had a shitfit and now you have no access to any wikis
fricking era games general
oops, fricked up the replies a little
>only good dark souls wiki
http://darksouls.wikidot.com/
DS1 wikidot is way better too, DS2 is when the gays contributing info sort of started giving up.
>still no https
This is what sovl looks like, kids.
Any point in using https for a wiki website ?
Contributors sharing their login info.
Not even for the encryption because there are non https ways of doing that. Just so they're sure they're not getting mitm'd.
https://clover-wiki-replacement.netlify.app/
Minimalism for the win.
For a non-videogame example:
https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
No blogtext with opinions by the editor about characters, places, etc, just straight information right out of the books.
The Dark Souls 1 Wikidot is almost perfect
http://darksouls.wikidot.com/
>Wikidot is not available in Russia and Belarus any more
kek
>all war and authoritarianism disappearing from the world after the west cuts off the supply of dark souls weapon descriptions and 60% of youtube music from russia and belarus
What's funny is the west thinking that they're somehow cucking russia by doing this. Piracy is in their culture after all
Illusory Wall is an astoundingly enormous homosexual.
who cares about snow Black folk
every single wiki on wikihelpers whitelist
>https://www.bloodborne-wiki.com/
is goated
it has so much organized info on everything, including cut content and datamining
so of course gaystralife and fandom are the 2 that show up in google before anything
https://letitdie.wiki.gg/wiki/Let_It_Die_Wiki
Bloodborne wiki is the gold standard, I can't believe that a game like ER that sold 20 million copies still only has fextralife, and doesn't have half of the info, like individual damage values for each swing in a weapon's R1 animation combo
https://tcrf.net/
https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
if the internet is so moronic and convoluted now, how fricking stupid will it be in another 10 years?
anyone wanna make some predictions?
if they can't censor or control it they'll just make it unusable so expect everything to continue getting worse on purpose. just like every other facet of society is intentionally made worse.
When the frick will moot allow webp posting on Ganker? It is getting exhausting having to convert images from other sites just to post them here.
If someone murdered the owner of Fandom and DDOS'd them, I would worship you as a saint.
I detest fextralife and their lazy, stupid format full of misinfo, but they're often the only choice besides reddit
>the "wiki" is just a discord server
>you must dig through thousands of messages to find the info because they use the "wiki" channel for conversations
>Information is organized into "discord threads"
webp is a better compression than jpeg or something. The creator goes on twitter and defends the format too lmao. It sucks because it doesn't work with half of software. Plug jpeg is fine for what it does, everyone has big drives these days
I mean I know what those are but I agree OP, shit is fricking moronic.
>??? ??? from ??? from ???
>tips hit it with a melee weapon to damage it
fextralife should be nuked from orbit
.jfif is annoying because it's just a jpeg file and someone in the pipeline from the web app to the web server to your browser to your OS should be able to solve it. Either recognize it as a canonical jpeg file extension or serve the correct extension or whatever. I'll also go to bat for webp and avif for similar reasons, they are just objectively better formats than jpeg and png, with good library support, and application developers refuse to make it easy for you to use them. Fricking webp support on Ganker when?
Frick Wikia-Fandom though and frick Fextralife, why are wikifarm owners such israelites
Frick webp
>Joshi Koukusei Captcha Service
Don't spoonfeed homosexuals.
I didnt even look at it before seeing your reply. Thank you.
It was reverse psychology trick. It worked.
It’s how he became a homosexual to begin with. Somebody spoonfed him. I’m sure that’s also how your impressive career of professional homosexualry got its start.
Shit hasn't worked since 2023
It works fine, black circle captcha is gone.
Have you also been having more issues recently with Joshi?
Even if it works only 30% of the time it's still better than typing shit by hand.
Frick captchas
Frick webp
Frick cookie pupups
Frick all the invasive ads
Why is the internet trying to be as troublesome for the user as possible?
>captchas
botting
>webp
goolag
>cookie pupups
GDPR (at they're looking into fixing it)
>invasive ads
more people using adblockers unironically made site owners shove more ads into the faces of those who don't have one installed yet
Seriously though why is Fextralife so fricking awful, it's like its designed to be bad.
Because its literally only there to plug their shit tier streams and inflate their numbers
It is literally a twitch viewbot that abuses SEO to butt out real wikis from search results.
>mfw seeing fluoridated NPC's on twatter defend webp saying it's so much better and lighter than PNG and JPG with such good quality and that it's impopular because of le evil dumb tech industry who didn't implement it well
>>mfw seeing fluoridated NPC's on twatter defend webp saying it's so much better and lighter than PNG and JPG
I have seen this dogshit in my twitter too.
>webp is better than PNG because it's lighter !!!
Literally wtf?
so these are the guys posting twitter threads
>trying to fit
Entire japan is using twitter to post their art. Everyone use twitter for news too. Even your developers are posting here online (especially devs of small games).
lol you dont just use it for art you lying homosexual
No, little zoom-zoom, I use it exactly for that. And you should stop trying to fit.
you are complaining about shit you read on twitter while at the same time telling me that you don't read anything on twitter and only use it for art. you don't see the contradiction here?
I also have a twitter acount for posting stuff on danbooru, but I doubt japanese artists or indie devs are posting about webp or other who cares shit
>but I doubt japanese artists or indie devs are posting about webp or other who cares shit
It this function they use. You should know about it
>posting stuff on shitbooru
I don't want to be rude but this is gigagaygatory.
>It this function they use
why are turd worlders allowed to post here? god i miss when you subhumans didn't have internet
>I don't want to be rude but this is gigagaygatory.
ah yes, cause art being only available on a walled off shitty website is better than on a well organized and easy to browse free for everyone to use
bait used to be good
>bait
It's not bait, he's a third worlder. He just has a double digit iq.
>bait used to be good
>shitbooru
Anon, shitbooru (danbooru) was hated by everyone. It's literally paywalled shit site now with curated content. You at least could use gelbooru or something.
danbooru is better tagged than gelbooru and everything gets reposted to gelbooru anyway
its not even paywalled its just walled off since they cant figure out a payment processor for like a year and a half now (just upload a 1000 pictures bro!)
If you do it for sake of art preservation you can use hydrus. Turn your PC into booru.
No. It's the opposite. See shadowbans, censorship, algorithms (ask /ic/) nuked accounts. Not very art friendly.
>See shadowbans, censorship, algorithms (ask /ic/) nuked accounts. Not very art friendly.
Oh Im not talking about that front. I dont expect those things to ever go away.
I meant UX improvements for storing and searching art, like better tag system, a better archive with indexing for searching different images, etc.
See all those issues are connect. Did you notice how rarely artists use hashtags now? Why? There is big chance to get ban for using hashtags. Especially similar hashtags for multiple pictures not even posted in the same day. Shadowbans prevent them from appearing in search even if you click their hashtag. Or they can be marked as bots and nuked without explanation.
NTA, but WTF? Why would anyone get banned for proper tagging?
There's a lot of weird shit that gets you shadowbanned.
>not logging in for more than a few months
>interacting with an account that twitter doesn't like
>saying a word that twitter doesn't like
>links to other websites
Fighting bots and spam please undurustando 🙂 I think it was before Elon but after him they launched even more moron mysterious algorithms. Both japs and western artists have noticed decrease in views and retweets too. Twitter is trying anything in his power to hide art from users.
>Entire japan is using twitter
>stop trying to fit
Oh, you're a brown person who can't speak english, nevermind. No reason trying to talk to someone with an iq of 80.
Anything else, little guy? I give you last dopamine hit.
Yes, I would like to say that the internet was way better when your shithole didn't have access to it. I hope one day moot comes back and rangebans every third world country from Ganker.
>I would like to say that the internet was way better
I don't think you're old enough to know anything about old internet. I guess you can read ED but still.
Your country didn't even have internet back then.
>NO SIRS I AM WHITE JUST LIKE YOU
All of your posts are in broken, fricked up english. I know for a fact that you're from some brown shithole.
It really has nothing to do with fitting in. Twitter is just an awful website unless you only care about the most surface level shit of whatever hobby/culture/scene you're into. Please go back.
>most surface level shit of whatever hobby/culture/scene you're into
>anime pic
You do know mangaka and artists, directors who made anime post on twitter right? Sometimes interesting information about their manga/anime? All announcements comes from twitter too? if anything it is sounds like you're ironic weeb trying to fit. Maybe even sankaku reader.
So which third world shithole are you from?
PNG is God's img filetype
anons, you can use XnConvert to easily convert any and multiple images to the format you want (and losslessly optimize at the same time)
The unholy trinity.
Webp is terrifying. Actual stalinist shit
The internet was a pretty cool phenomenon. The early days when it was a wild new frontier were the best. It's dead now. A corpse. Time to move on.
Fandom is a fricking abhorrent wiki format but the only real thing wrong with it is the fact that it's free to use so any halfhearted moron can shit out a Wiki for a game and then never update it. A fandom wiki with actual wiki autists running them can be perfectly fine and provide good information.
NTA but case in point the Warframe fandom wiki is fricking amazing, i have never failed to find exactly what im looking for
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/WARFRAME_Wiki
I'M SICK AND TIRED OF GOOGLE CHANGING THINGS FOR THE WORST IN A SAD ATTEMPT FOR DEVELOPERS TO JUSTIFY THEIR JOBS
AI NEEDS TO REPLACE THESE FRICKS NOW
>use google images to search for an image (meme)
>every single result is just the thumbnail of a product to be sold
How long until search engines aren't even usable anymore?
>How long until search engines aren't even usable anymore?
-5 years
>How long until search engines aren't even usable anymore?
Like 5 or 6 years ago?
And they want me to turn off my adblock
The popups of yore already demonstrated that advertisers cannot be trusted. I will never remove my adblocker.
What year did goggle absolutely lobotomize their reverse image search into uselessness again? That was the first moment where search engines suddenly started to get worse.
I worship at the altar of Yandex. It's fricking magic compared to Google.
Yeah, and I'd rather trust ruskies than israelitegle with my searches tbh
>only time image search works anymore is when it pulls from r*ddit
We live in a fallen world
yandex is still pretty good.
i have no clue how google reverse image search is so bad. tineye is even more fricking useless.
yandex is the best by a country mile, the ruskis got us beat out
reverse image search was intentionally gimped because it used to be good enough to find people on social media just by posting pictures of their faces
they should bring that shit back
nothing makes the blood boil hotter than knowing about tech progress being intentionally kneecapped
Good, only normie homosexuals looking for stupid meme clothing would be looking for that shit.
You forgot avif
Duckduckgo search is even worse
Good. Anything that keeps people from frogposting is okay in my book.
behead webp
>game has like 3 wikis
>all of them are incomplete in different ways
why
The UESP is the best game wiki out there, the gays who work fextralife should go kill themselves for making the worst game wiki on the internet.
Everything you just posted is incredibly correct. Just thought I'd verify.
>jfif
>webp
I hate this dogshit so much it's unreal
>want to look a combo for a fightan up
>wiki hasn't been edited in x years
>"Yeah bro you gotta join the discord for that, plenty of newish combos have been found"
I hate the modern internet
I like having the option to join video game discords if I really want to talk about the game, I hate having it be mandatory
Then
>are you 18? Y/N
Now
>you have to be 18 to view this content, please register an account
>reddit is asking for account for 18+ topics
The reason I hate this shit so much is that after you making the account it's still just a yes/no or date birth thing. Apparently it's so companies can completely wash their hands of shit when minors access it by saying "Actually it's in our ToS to not lie about your age and you agreed when you signed up" but I have no clue if that's true
It's to stop minors from walking into the most degenerate crap imaginable
If a minor is lying about the age with a pop up literally nothing stops them from lying about their age on a sign up screen
even Newgrounds started doing this shit after two decades of existence
Pretty sure this has to do with EU regulation. Youtube asks me for an ID when I attempt to watch an age restricted video, even though my account is old enough for the possibility of being to be minimal. Add to that the fact that youtube videos get age restricted for basically no reason half the time, the site has declined considerably since the mid 2010s. Oh and frick double ads.
t. europoor
Ironically, I've never seen porn sites do the second. Half the time, you can clearly see the porn thumbnails before they prompt you for your age with nothing more than a simple yes/no check. Meanwhile, 99% of normalgay sites want phone numbers just to browse them
If you're not sending regular death threats to anyone associated with Fextralife you're not doing your part to make the internet a more tolerable place.
.webp is a good format though and more websites should support it.
>very information is hidden behind discords
Look at Armored Core for example. If you try to google you will find nothing worth it.
But if you open discord you will find all existing guides for pvp, all information about emulation and multiplayer for PS2 games.
God I hate how everyone uses discord for that shit now. Forums were far from perfect, but they were still better than this
I wonder if people migrating to discord is a result of SEO and existing wikis being pure cancer
Sure you could make a wiki from the ground up but that's way more effort than just dumping shit into discord.
You have to search in japanese
>.avif
I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET I HATE THE MODERN INTERNET
Add these to your ublock custom filters to make Fandom usable
fandom.com##.notifications-placeholder
fandom.com##.plainlinks
fandom.com##.page__right-rail
fandom.com##.global-navigation
fandom.com##.global-registration-buttons
fandom.com##.global-footer
fandom.com##.fandom-sticky-header
fandom.com##.page-side-tools__wrapper
fandom.com###WikiaBar
fandom.com###mw-data-after-content
fandom.com###mixed-content-footer
Thank you, friend
Isn't there another website that's just Fandom without all the added bullshit?
how much did fextralife pay to get the top google search result for so many games when their wikis are so fricking garbage and often you'll just click on one and there won't even be anything on the page
why hasn't hirotard added webp support to this site yet
wouldn't he be saving a few cents because it's more filesize-efficient or some shit?
there are some things in life that aren't worth optimising
he'd have to pay someone to do it. unlike jannies.
when was the last time they did anything with this website beyond april fool's shit?
adding in the excessive Ganker spinoff boards?
max filesize was bumped up to 4 mb from 3 mb a few months ago
>why hasn't hirotard added webp support to this site yet
KYS
I envy you OP, I wish those were my biggest problems in my life.
we really need a solar flare to knock out the internet for a few years honestly
I fricked the chick who owns Fextralife over a decade ago. No idea what she looks like now but she was very hot back then.
I hate myself every time I resign myself to adding "reddit".
I do too, friend. I do too.
>hyperbole in title
>multiple exclamation/question marks
>emoticons
>reaction face thumbnails
>first person opinions in titles
>[Name] in titles
>find an image to post on google
>is a webp image from reddit
>reverse google image search so i don't have to perform procedures then save the file on computer
>all of the images are also webp images from reddit
windows snip tool works wonders for that. I will just win shift s and then paste that
AV1 and jpegXL soon bros
>people defending webp because OOOOOOO MUH FILESIZE
frick off, honestly
I use Ganker archive as google replacement too. If you want to buy something and need honest review about the product from owners. Reddit isn't reliable because of shills and karma
Lol and you think Ganker is reliable?
Yes. Ganker is reliable if you have working brain and can filter information. it just works.
Yes, anons are unironically more reliable than tech giants and most of the internet
>autistic weirdos who actually care about *subject*
>soulless corpo algorithms that only use subject as way to mine your info and farm card revenue
I know which I prefer 99% of the time
Same, tbharchive and b4k are more useful than google at this point
>wow Ganker is shit today
>search for threads that interest me on the archive
>have a good time
>finish old video game
>look up threads when game came out
doesnt get better than this
>redditpombo
go back
Search engine optimization websites manipulate their tags to appear first on Google. All the things you listed cancerous. Dotasports is another bad one that appears. Websites that read like machine written paragrah vomits and ads that crash. I have to use GameFAQs sometimes for shit now.
I've been thinking I should see if I can frick around with my search plugins to automatically append things like -site:fandom.com to the query.
I like fandom because they got images next to most of their links.
On other wikis it's usually just links until you click on a page.
I'm not seeing the ads people cry about either because I use an adblocker.
i still haven't heard a single reason to hate webp other than Ganker not accepting it. what's even wrong about it?
Because you don't know what type of file you have, whether lossy or lossless.. No way of knowing until you save it, and then open it in a hex editor to check the header. It's a fricking mystery meat file.
that's fricking moronic. why would anyone do that?
>The two best wikis in existence are both runescape wikis
Why cant any other game produce any reasonable form of wiki? Does it require the autism of runescape to achieve it?
Because those wikis were made and supported by the devs.
the Runescape wikis were elder god tier long before they were ever officially endorsed by Jagex
Modern RS or OSRS couldn't function without a wiki.
That c**t Fextra is doing it for Dragon's Dogma currently. I went to that shitpit of a site for one reason or another and saw his gay botting stream playing it, obviously prepping for DD2. Hate that motherfricker so much. There's already a well-documented wiki, and has been for years now. That homosexual is such an awful wiki creator. Most of the other wikis he makes are not even half complete or filled with so much misinformation.
Wait it's a guy behind this? Why the frick don't wikis just ban him on sight?
It's pretty much a single guy behind Fextra and I don't think they really can? I don't know how wikis really work in terms of rules and hosting. And while others can add/ edit the articles, they're completely filled with bullshit because he's the one that initially makes the pages by playing the game as much as possible and trying to complete it before anyone else so he can be the top result. Top that with embedding his stream (can't do it anymore from twitch lmao) so his stream was artificially viewed on twitch, he's a fricking scumbag host. Now he's got his own hosted stream site because twitch doesn't allow embedding anymore. He might, keyword "might", also be paying google or whoever to make sure his wiki is always top result. Call me a schizo for that, but the other shit is 100% true.
Aside from being on fandom, the DD wiki is pretty good. I don't know why people who clearly care about a series choose to set up shop there in the first place, the experience is horrible. Goes for reddit too.
>>jfif
>>webp
Does these formats have embedded tracking?
Were Fandom and Reddit designed by the same guy? They're literally as inefficient as sites can be, bloated to the point of near-unusability, riddled with intrusive ads. I'm thankful this place, in comparison, barely changed since 2004. Way more intuitive at every level.
what the hell is jfif? I have never encountered that one
It's an older hipster extension for jpg that arose when there was squabbling over what the official one would be. The usual shit happened too where some big software adopted one at first, while others used the second. We sort of see the same thing still with there being both jpg and jpeg in use.
Twitter uses it. It's just jay pegs yeah
How is Fextra allowed to exist.
Black personp is sucha fricking trash format
Wikidot
It's all gone so wrong
>search for some mundane vidya thing
>every result is reddit
>have to click 5 separate "click here to read 11 more replies" links before I actually find the thing that google parsed to even have that link appear in the first place
>the information there is completely wrong or outdated
dead internet theory refers to more than just MUH AIs, seriously
I sincerely don't understand who actually uses reddit, it's such a dogshit website
>>have to click 5 separate "click here to read 11 more replies" links Before I actually find the thing that google parsed to even have that link
this is the thing I cannot stand about reddit. When you're forced to visit it for some solution and you have to expand a thread and it goes to another fricking page to load more comments. Why?!
>OP is a straightforward question
>first few responses are unfunny injokes
>have to click to expand to get the actual information
It's like a competiton between the UI and the userbase on which can be worse.
>dead internet theory refers to more than just MUH AIs, seriously
Dead internet theory is specifically about botting. It's not just a term for the general enshittening of web design and services, it refers to a specific phenomenon.
reddit might as well be a bunch of bots talking to each other, that's how it reads
Seriously, it's like they have a number of preprogrammed responses, whether they post them on their own or start a post with them. They're genuinely human NPCs.
Reddit is engineered so that nothing is challenging and you only see the most democratically sanitized posts pushed to the top. So every user is trained to try and think of the most appealing reply to their in-group.
Unlike here, frick all you Black folk
>most of their responses are useless information or jokes
When Ganker dies I'm just killing myself. I would rather be dead than use reddit
Reddit is such a garbage website, it's so bad that even the fricking OP of a general thread on Ganker can be more useful. What the frick is even the point of the upvote system when useful information gets buried under snarky joss whedon comments? Why do people upvote "LE NARWHAL BACON AT MIDNIGHT xDDD" instead of the answer to the fricking question and additional information about the thread topic? Are they there just to look at these fricking hilarious reddit comments instead of useful information?
I can't fathom the mind of a redditor. It's like that little dopamine hit is all they live for. The actual gayest fricking thing.
>What the frick is even the point of the upvote system when useful information gets buried under snarky joss whedon comments?
It has gotten so bad that I despise snark on principle at this point. A coworker suggested I start going to reddit for any Sys Admin questions I had and the first fricking post I made had some jackass making trying to be a comedian. Fricking piece of shit website and piece of shit "community."
Fextralife went to shit when it became gay troony lovers
Protip: put "anti" in front of the "fandom" in the url.
>go to store
>look up game related stuff for when I come back while in the queue
>mobile data gets eaten up by the honest trailers behind the scenes discussion
Thank you
at this point I genuinely think less of a game if it doesn't have a proprietary, non-cancerous wiki
google is so fricking worthless now
>google "how to [thing]"
>first result is someone asking this on reddit
>check replies
>"why? just use [shittier thing]" 528 karma
>author replies "I need [thing] specifically, because..." -3 karma
>no other answers
every reddit google search in a nutshell regardless of how obscure/mainstream the vidya you are searching
>check replies
>30 comment long unfunny meme chain with a gorillion karma
>actual answer buried at the bottom with 3 updoots
God I fricking hate reddit, let's see how Quora is doin...
>absolute schizo writing a thesis statement of complete nonsense
>not even really answering the actual question, I have no idea what they're answering
What's with these increased and constant post timers?
It's only you. Probably a phonetard
Damn. Not a phone though.
What do you mean? I shitpost as fast as I can.
whats wrong with fextralife?
the epitome of clickbait website and they've been utterly hemorrhaging money since twitch stopped letting them embed their shitty immune to adblock stream on their website which was their whole play
most of their """""wikis"""""" are utterly lazy garbage that they stop updating a month or 2 after [insert game here] releases
Check out their pathfinder wiki and you tell me
>search something for an old game
>only gives answers for the remake or sequel
>Seach something for a game
>MASSIVE SPOILER RIGHT IN YOUR FACE
>What you're looking up is either not even there or buried so far that you'll never find it
I had to lookup several full playthroughs just to find out what an item does in some games, it's cancer
>jfif
>webp
why was this shit even invented other than to be annoying
>mods/randomizers are only on discord now
>want to play on a private server? join the discord
>mods/randomizers are only on discord now
Shouldnt you blame the mod creator for that one ?
yes and? how does that change anything
I like when some games have in-built wikis. They're mostly sims or something like 4x, egg games
I swear search results have gotten worse for literally everything. I can't even stalk my ex efficiently these days.
Word. I could spot the day they turned facebook search worse when I couldn't search all of the posts oneitis ever wrote anymore.
Image search is mega shitty now too, I could find all accounts of someone by profile pic alone years ago.
>Elder Scrolls video
>shows up fandom instead of uesp
>uesp
unusable trash
>uesp
>unusable
you're just moronic, all you have to do is type in "game: topic" it's that fricking easy.
>still no dark mode
>still dogshit ui
>still dogshit layout
i dont see how anyone uses it honestly
and the devs who made it should be shot
>sign up, email and name are optional
>can use custom CSS and javascripts
>can change the layout to how you want
filtered.
>be playing cyberslop 2077
>google simply for a list of shotguns with stats bc that's the build I'm doing and I want a starting point
>first result is fextralife
>their "list" only has like 6 guns on it, all the stats are wrong and weren't even accurate on the patch where the info was pulled from
>be utterly confused bc even when CP2077 was super looter shootery there were only like 13 shotguns total
jesus christ I completely understand why autist dark souls eceleb streamers hate Fextralife so much
I have to add "wiki" after every single search these days to get wikipedia to appear in the top 20 results
Why would you want wikipedia for anything video game related ?
Occasionally, very rarely, I use google to search for other things
duck duck go usually figures you might be looking for wikpied anyway so it's always top right
The internet HAS to go back to the way it was.
It's crumbling under it's own weight at this point, as well as just ruining everything and being worse for everybody.
fextra wasnt view botting their garbage stream?
they were, but twitch got rid of embedded streams, so now they can't. now they have their own hosted site for streaming.
Nothing pisses me off more than the existence of webm
No I don't think I'm overreacting
I am a morono, I meant webp
i don't like webm because I can't figure out the witchcraft behind making good looking small file size ones
It only bothers me when it's short enough to be a .gif. What's the point of 4 second webm?
I didn't mean webm but frick it let's talk about it
I unironically think its the greatest. When Ganker added webm it really modernized the website without taking away from the original spirit of gif
I'm very happy you can post webm here, and I wish all boards would allow for sound at user discretion.
But I hate having to go scroll and click 'close' on a webm when it's short enough to just be a gif and has no sound.
i wasn't trying to poopoo webm by replying to you, I'm just bad at making them
I can never get a good balance between bitrate/resolution/length like other people can so I just gave up with it. Every time I make one it almost always looks like shit
oh yeah for sure man, my foray into making webms was a very short one
Best leave it to the professionals here
>open webm for morons
>limit 4mb
>vp9 on
>decrease resolution
>What's the point of 4 second webm?
all webm's look better than all gifs
simple as that
So? Rarely do these webm contain images that need higher resolution.
That's an absurd question, you should ask what's the point of a 4 second gif instead, the answer being: none.
>click to open
>click to close
>don't need to scroll up to click to close it
>he hasn't enabled image hover
ngmi
Educate me please
at the top of the page, go to settings, click "images & media", click enable image hover.
image hover is awful
I'll admit, I'm guilty of making short loops in .webm, but that's only because I can't stand .gif's artifacting
People only complain about those formats because Ganker doesn't support them. Then the same morons will complain game assets aren't compressed kek
if you go to save an image and it tries to save as a webp file, you can right-click Copy Image and Paste it into Paint where you can save it as a regular jpg or png.
Any chance of Elon making Twitter become a better site for image archiving ?
Image archiving costs money for no profit, so no.
no he's a complete moron when it comes to sensible things like that
So far he's only made it worse, way worse.
Nah getting rid of the blue hairs was huge improvement, even if he's fricked it in 10 other smaller ways
I don't know what that is but the APIs are absolutely fricked.
twitter has become much worse with him in charge
before it was a giant political bubble shithole, now it is exactly the same thing + a bunch of companies creating thousands upon thousands of bot blue checkmark accounts to engagement farm for pennies.
for about a week it was good then he made it harder to see things on it without an account
the old gamespy planet system was the precursor to game wikis
Do people have problem with fandom? Just filter everything
Fextralife can die roasted in a fire though
>Try to look up the solution to a simple windows issue
>30% of the results are a bunch of nameless tech support sites clearly ran by pajeets that manage to go page after page without actually giving a solution worth a shit
>30% are the above but it's incomprehensible gibberish written by AI instead
>30% are posts made on the microsoft forums with incredibly hit or miss answers made by microsoft windows ''''''''''experts'''''''''
>10% are vaguely related posts on reddit
>microsoft forums with incredibly hit or miss answers made by microsoft windows ''''''''''experts'''''''''
Probably the single worst thing of troubleshooting any Windows problem. These gays will say everything except the actual solution, making everyone suffer. This is doubly true for the people who actually consult them that are forced to wait forever in between non answers and being told to update Windows.
did gaystralife stop giving you the ability to download files or something? i haven't used wikis in a while