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I don't even know what it exactly wants to be (media.piefed.social)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by vogi@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 77 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It was amazing for years and then they ran out of money. When it completely crashed and went full ad insanity and crashed again, someone else took over with the intent of making it great again. That may be a poor choice of words or it may not.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 27 points 4 days ago

I also remember when it got taken over by new management with the promise of improving things. That was a couple of years ago IIRC, and it's still a septic tank of advertisements and download countdowns.