The concept of “free” social networking is a kind of unspoken social-fiscal contract that only exists as long as operators understand the value that users are creating. A user posts for “free,” but re
God, Threads is depressing. Threads is a new Twitter clone made by Facebook. (I will not now, nor will I ever, call Mark Zuckerberg’s company “Meta”). Every part of Threads’ existence makes me shake m
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed Lot is happening in the social network landscape with the demises of Twitter and Reddit, the apparition of Bluesky and Threads, the growing popularity of Mastodon. Many pundits are trying to guess which one will be successful and trying to explain why…
Frito-Lay have always been a dab hand at keeping consumers interested. Founded in 1961, the snack foods manufacturer built a small empire selling a variety of salty snacks to America’s hungry hordes.
Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the…
The Tailwind CSS drama never ends. Might as well talk about it 🫠 LINK TO MY TWEET: https://twitter.com/t3dotgg/status/1673826168133554176 ALL MY VIDEOS ARE
Illustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been. Continue reading…
Photo-Illustration: Paul Sahre This article is a collaboration between New York Magazine and The Verge . A few months after graduating from college in Nairobi, a 30-year-old I’ll call Joe got a job as
Summary My first hype exposure was "use the Extensible Markup Language for everything". Learning from it allowed me to live through the front end stack explosion, the micro-service overdose and many,
At this point, we’re all aware of the shenanigans happening at Reddit. Right? Like, I don’t even need to post a link to anything? Fuck, I don’t even think I know where to send you at this point. I could choose any one of hundreds of stories, but it feels like the Reddit news pustule is a fountain of…
Hey Bear is a YouTube channel with videos of dancing fruits, vegetables, and other nonsense designed to make kids stfu entertain young children. It works. Baby Knight loves it. Last night my partner a
In another episode of my new series You cannot convince me that Capitalism doesn’t absolutely shatter the brains of those that benefit the most from it : two of
by Ploum on 2023-06-23 Year is 2023. The whole Internet is under the control of the GAFAM empire. All? No. Because a few small villages are resisting the oppression. And some of those villages started
Seeing Google kill off and sell Google Domains is such a big surprise to me. It shouldn’t be, given they’ve shut down waaay more than that. I’m still annoyed at them stopping the Google Code Jam competitions and Hangouts and G Suite and… way too many other services.
Alex Russell loaded a filmstrip comparison showing the speed it takes to load two websites. One site — coming from the UK — loads the site essentials within three seconds and it’s ready to go. It’s a
It seems that we’ve had a rash of formerly loved internet services going down the enshittification curve. As coined (brilliantly) by Cory Doctorow, enshittification is the process by which a company gets gradually worse. As he puts it: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users…
The Silicon Valley Pain Index is produced by the San Jose State University Human Rights Institute. The annual study focuses on racial discrimination and wealth inequality. The report was first published in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and was inspired by an index…
My personal inbox, as it stands, is largely useless. Of the 100 emails I can see at a glance, two of them are things I asked for — changes to a profile, an order receipt – and the rest are adverts fro
Illustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge President Joe Biden’s internet access plan will hand $41.6 billion to internet service providers. In many places, that money will get funneled into private hands. Continue reading…
What is the Small Web? 07 Aug 2020 Updated June 19th, 2023 Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for t
There are roughly five types of people you’ll meet doing accessibility development work. They are: People who create inaccessible code, but do not realize they are doing so. People who create inaccess
Maybe just one more go-round with the oven to get the seasoning juuuuuust right. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge I never thought of myself as being an especially heavy user of social media, but now that I no longer post on Instagram and barely post on Twitter... I suddenly have a lot…
Thousands of subreddits representing hundreds of millions of users have gone dark in what is likely the largest moderator-coordinated protest in the history of social media. The protest brings Reddit’
in order to successfully work with JavaScript or TypeScript these days, there’s a growing need to understand some of the very sophisticated transformations that are happening under the hood between th
AS JIMMY BUTLER and Max Strus prepare for each Miami Heat game in the 2023 NBA Finals, they have a ritual. It's one that Butler has gone out of his way to cultivate with all his teammates. Sometimes,
I felt, well in advance of Tim Cook unveiling the Apple Vision Pro at WWDC that it was nearly impossible it would be a product that appealed to me. Other people knew well in advance that they absolutely wanted whatever it was. It could have been an Apple-branded ViewMaster and they’d want it. I…
Illustration: by Jess Ebsworth This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. If you call a slew of Hollywood’s most powe
Another day, another exhortation to join an “ecosystem” that’s anything but. I could pick a hundred examples, but one that recently caught my eye was an ad placed in the Financial Times by the Singapo
For several years now, I’ve been watching the creeping, unheralded growth of what I call the cozyweb, and for which others have lots of creative names . Kickstarter founder Yancey Strickler called it
Share This Article What words would you use to describe yourself? You might say you’re a dog owner, a parent, that you like Taylor Swift, or that you’re into knitting. If you feel like sharing, you mi
(Cross-posted from my blog ) The other day I made an advice thread based on Jacobian’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in. Possessions 1. If you want to f
This is a short story about what happened to the U.S. economy since the end of World War II. That’s a lot to unpack in 5,000 words, but the short story of what happened over the last 73 years is simpl
I've been a Goodreads user for a few years now, and much like how I use other 'tracking' services, I'm not there for other folks' reading lists or recommendations, but instead, as a way to track what I've read. I especially like looking back over the past year and being reminded of the books I…
For a decade and a half , Twitter held true utility for the contemporary reader. At its best, the site offered brisk access to the news and the figures…
We are definitely in a period of instability for â well, everything . In the entertainment industry, the cable-cutting chickens have come home to roost, and the things people knew would happen event
How Apple wants us all to interact in the future. Screenshot: Apple After months of rumor and speculation, Apple’s Vision Pro headset was finally revealed during the keynote video it used to kick off
Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo have a routine they’ve done at parties that kills. They perfected it at Sundance in the early 2000s, in a condo dance-off with two Navajo guys. “Taika would strike this
For some of us who grew up on the world wide web, the idea of a private internet didn’t come into focus until entering a college campus or workplace. But intranets are some of the best places to be —
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