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

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Pintrest is the worst website ever built and has caused immense damage to the free sharing of information.

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Together with Quora. Search engine pollution.

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There was about ten minutes there when Quora was Yahoo! Answers for people who passed the Apgar test.

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I legitimately don’t know why Google hasn’t filtered it out of image search results. It’s harmful to Google’s platform.

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It’s the top rated blocked website on Kagi.

I don’t know why Google doesn’t take a hint.

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6 points

This is a baseless but very reasonable theory - because Pinterest pays them a fuck ton of money.

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10 points

me: oh hey I was looking for–

Pinterest: Sign in or I will come to your house and break your thumbs

me: well fuck you too then

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6 points

It was actually pretty cool when I started and real people used it.

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Honestly don’t get why they’re still around and what they do.

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Used to be an easy way to collect and share photos or something from a website with friends. It was especially useful with things like making a collection of fashion that you liked and then discussing similar fashions with friends. It actually at one point would recognize some pieces of clothing and then create links to buy it. Actually a useful advertising kind of thing IMHO. But it became bloated and full of tracking nonsense rather than helping people share things and so it lost its usefulness. It seems it’s mostly populated by bots now to drive SEO.

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60 points

Try using Instagram without an account and no app, basically impossible.

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The only way I’ve worked out how to even save Instagram images locally is using the page information (ctrl+i) Media tab in Firefox and sort through it to find it there. Terrible for an image hosting website.

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It’s not an image hosting site, it’s a social media site whose goal is to keep you coming back for more. The easier it is for you to save their content locally, the less likely you are to spend as much time on their site.

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And the fact that people flock there despite that is a way I feel more and more distant from humanity…

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3 points

It’s doable if you open everything in new tabs. Still not a good experience though.

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Good to know in a pinch! Luckily I never had to spend time there.

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54 points

Seemingly every recipe website. They tell a long, unrelated story, cover the page with ads, popups, slideouts, timer triggered ads, videos, etc.

It’s almost impossible to see the recipe under all the crap.

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These were some of the first sites to be enshittified. The more you scroll that more ad revenue they got. So they hid the actual recipes and steps under a back story longer than the dune books that forced you to scroll and hit ad after ad.

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A lot of these have a link near the top to go straight to the recipe, which helps me avoid much of the dreck.

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I thought Twitter was a stupid idea when it first started. 140 character limit? What the fuck is the point? The fact they increased that limit shows it was dumb. Everything else about the site just gives further reason to hate it.

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That limit came from the days of SMS. The idea was that you can’t go to the internet, because data is expensive, the network doesn’t exist, your dumb phone can’t even open websites etc. However, you can send SMS messages, and those things have a 160 character limit.

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Do does that mean they took an existing limitation from the SMS protocol, that didn’t apply because it used data instead and then shoehorned it into a godawful web 2.0 monstrosity all the same (and bear in mind, this is significantly reducing the unnecessary character limit!)

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In 2006 the restriction did apply. The idea was that you would type the message on a computer, and let Twitter send a few SMS messages to a small group people.

You weren’t supposed to have millions of followers or write a full length blog post using a hundred short messages. The idea was that you cold reach people quickly even though they didn’t have access to a proper computer or the internet. So much has changed in the past 18 years…

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It’s still very stupid, character limit increase or not.

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