I remember this site being kinda cool years ago, but holy shit it sucks now.

I remember this site being kinda cool years ago, but holy shit it sucks now. is there anything else out there like this, but you know, not garbage?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Very loosely speaking, hackaday, but if anything I'd say youtube replaced both.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I have looked at every single entry on hackaday (took several years), looking for something I might want to try.

      I found their sight to have a large amount of bullshit. people who do things that could be done with very simple electronic circuits, instead being done with overly complicated setups including arduinos, raspberry pi's etc. or doing things that are more novelty or "look what I can do" than actually useful.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        At least they finally got over their obsession with finding things to create articles about 'girl power' for stupid shit like the first woman to understand the color code on resistors. For a while there, it seemed to be every third or fourth article.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >could be done with very simple electronic circuits
        Those days are gone man, unless you wanna do it just for nostalgia.
        >be me
        >need a simple logic circuit
        >2 dual input NANDs and 2 inverters
        >$12 with shipping for a tube of cd4091s
        >need only one
        >$18 for a 10 pack of arduino nano clones
        It just makes sense to keep versatile cheapduinos around than to buy tubes of discrete components you need once in a blue moon
        >inb4 back in my day local electronic store single components for a few cents
        It's gone anon, let it go.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        At least they finally got over their obsession with finding things to create articles about 'girl power' for stupid shit like the first woman to understand the color code on resistors. For a while there, it seemed to be every third or fourth article.

        Get an RSS reader that supports filters, and add shit like "women" and "girl" for sites like that

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I came here to say it's just youtubers raised the bar so high that we don't get impressed.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Man I used to hang out on hackaday a few times a week.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I used to follow hackaday pretty closely, until it seemingly turned into pride-flag-keyboard-a-day.
      I haven't checked back to see if the quality ever went back up.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >turned into pride-flag-keyboard-a-day
        WUT! are you talking about?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          not that anon, but I used to read hackaday almost every day years ago. Then it started getting peppered with globohomosexual ragebait (often, but not exclusively, from Brian Benchoff)

          I stopped reading it too; haven't checked in for quite a few years. There's a difference between having an occasional article with a small scattering of globohomosexual references and the LGBT nogfest that the site turned into.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        not that anon, but I used to read hackaday almost every day years ago. Then it started getting peppered with globohomosexual ragebait (often, but not exclusively, from Brian Benchoff)

        I stopped reading it too; haven't checked in for quite a few years. There's a difference between having an occasional article with a small scattering of globohomosexual references and the LGBT nogfest that the site turned into.

        PrepHole is the best diy board where you can say Black person. That is why people stay here.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Not even that, we can just tell people shit like, you're a fricking idiot, your ideas are retatded, and I'm going to laugh when the shipping container caves in and fricking kill you. And we don't get banned for being fricking honest and hurting feelings. Most places on the net moderate too heavily on hurt feelings. Mods here don't give a shit until you cross some particular lines

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            it used to be good til the site was used BY AN IDIOT who decided the site would be a good place to place the "PROOF OF HACKING, ATTEMPTS BY FORMER EMPLOYEE TO KILL DIABETICS WITH INSULIN PUMPS" info dump
            aka the reason Insulin Pumps cost even more now, and they auto try to block the fact the new ones can be easily hacked too
            the site WAS good for idea's for hacking/fixing/repurposing things for fun/profit
            then the medical industry via a shell group bought it, stripped the site, and it devolved into the trash it now is
            also the reason sites like the waybackmachine are constantly getting sued, because they like to destroy past evidence of crimes and security breakdowns of devices

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          > PrepHole is the best diy board
          Sad, but true.
          Even youtube is becoming instructables quality, and I consider their web interface about the worst one now. It’s glacial, have to click things 8 times, it crashes and re-loads all the time, comments don’t always work… etc. And the team that developed the “shorts” interface… that thing is just hilariously bad. Everybody else, ebay, amazon, etc seem to be able to do this, web UIs are beyond googles capabilities now.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >it crashes and re-loads all the time
            WUT?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Good luck now that dislikes are disabled, and god help you if they've turned off comments too.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >And the team that developed the “shorts” interface… that thing is just hilariously bad.

            oof yes and it keeps getting worse. However they are even able to do that.

            Good luck now that dislikes are disabled, and god help you if they've turned off comments too.

            >and god help you if they've turned off comments too.
            Most media and news outlets in my country already do that. It's too much effort for them to delete all the shit which could hurt someones feelings.

            If someone would combine blog/forum style build logs, shitbox style random threads like PrepHole , patreon or kickstarter with youtube and instagram media presentation and distributing ad revenue fairly between creators (and only craft and science (like ben krasnow not that popsci garbage) content not all the bullshit content just for the purpose of content youtube and insta have these days) without censorship i might even consider paying for that.

            I think machinists on youtube haven't even peaked yet but a lot of other stuff already entered a downward spiral.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I’ve made a bokabob still, a suitcase drumset, spray paint from soda bottles, and an invisible bookshelf. It might be filled with single moms blogspots now but there’s still a generous wealth of information.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone care to share some of their favorite instructables?

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    hacknmod

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Does anyone remember the endless clickbait ads that you could keep clicking for hours

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hi folks this is KipKay!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >dumps a car battery full of assorted batteries in your path
      >refuses to elaborate
      >leaves

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >have a project idea
    >google shit for inspiration
    >something interesting catches your eye
    >click on image
    >Welcome to Pinterest, please log in using xyz account to continue
    >close tab in disgust
    Frick this gay ass internet and the homosexuals who fricked it up

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      learn how to use a search engine.
      google "shit for inspiration -site:pinterest.com"

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Good try, but you'll find that most search engines these days are removing search operators. I can't even get them to listen to quotation marks sometimes. The reasoning is that most people are idiots who don't really know what they're looking for, so google now assumes everyone is an idiot who doesn't know what they're looking for, and that makes search operators superfluous.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Wanting general shit was always moronic. There are plenty of specific resources for people who can internet.

          Google is an advertising company, not in the business of anything else.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      uBlocklist

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