Didn’t this stupid website used to help you, you know, hack life or something?

  • Izzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    1 year ago

    Unfortunately everything is an ad now. It’s the only way these sites are capable of surviving.

    • trainsaresexy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • BromSwolligans@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • JTode@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Tsaot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    202·
    1 year ago

    I unsubscribed when they had an article about how rimming isn’t unsanitary and how to do it properly. I cannot describe how grossed out I was.

  • ThirdNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    It did used to have great stuff. I first unsubbed years ago, and remain unsubbed until I forget what crap it became and resub - and then <DOH!> unsub again.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    1 year ago

    Lifehacker has one good article a week. At the end of the week. It’s one where they debunk a bunch of bullshit rumors floating around the internet at the moment.

    So I check them once on Fridays.

    I’m guessing, with the way G/O media is going, that they’ll get rid of that.

  • Nommer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I used to browse it about 15-20 years ago.It used to be a good place to learn tricks about all sorts of electronics. I’m not sure exactly what happened but it was like a switch flipped and they got awful almost overnight. Probably bought out.

  • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
    71·
    1 year ago

    I feel like someone needs to setup a Netflix-type deal for news sites. I’m not going to pay a news site that I only view an article or two a month from. And there’s a bunch of them. So it’d be neat if I can pay one price and access them when I need to.

      • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Apple does some things well but wraps it all in one of the worst systems designed for people. It’s like a slaughterhouse that takes good care of its cattle.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        But purposely excludes anyone who hasn’t invested $2000 in the apple ecosystem. Anything made by apple is a huge no from me, even if they decide occasionally to support hardware they didn’t already profit from directly.

  • Hello_there@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    There was once a related website called tree hugger. All the articles were about things you could buy with an eco focus of some kind.
    It was neat to see stuff about solar powered radios, but pushing consumerism that much for that purpose misses the point