Didn’t this stupid website used to help you, you know, hack life or something?
Lifehacker is just click bait shit now. Once upon a time in a far away land it was good.
Unfortunately everything is an ad now. It’s the only way these sites are capable of surviving.
I feel like I’m turning into ‘that guy’ again but cryptocurrency could help this out.
a) connect wallet to lifehacker
b) have fractions of a cent taken out to unlock articles
I know people can bypass it/copy paste, but at the end of the day it would be another source of revenue. They are surviving as is, but barely.
I feel like you’d be interested in the Web Monetization API, if you’re not already aware of it.
It used to be pretty good, but that was over ten years ago now.
Gosh, remember TechTV before the G4 merger? Between Call for Help & The Screensavers, I learned SO MUCH.
Anything that is, or once was affiliated with Gawker / GMG is, in its current state, a cringe-inducing, shambling husk of whatever it once was. My muscle memory still directs me to a number of those blogs and everyday I recoil at what has become of them.
Hmm, I wasn’t around for old Kotaku, but I think Kotaku still posts some good stuff? Or are they not Gawker?
Kotaku is close enough to gaming “journalism” that it’s never really been good.
There was a time when Lifehacker was a place you could go for neat little things that could be accomplished with objects at hand to make life easier. There was such a time for many, many places on this great Internet of ours.
