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Of course, it all depends on the context. A tutorial for a specific knitting stitch can be done in under 5 minutes, other stuff not so much! There was also an interesting thread somewhere yesterday asking why don’t people use their subscription feed on YT and the answers were a good representation of the user base here, ie: most do use it and avoid the algo at all costs! So I think we’re all on the same page here, we search and use YT in a way that is most efficient but not the most common :)

It probably disappeared into the ether because it was too short or lacked a backdrop of dried flowers and a cup of tea.

I’ll usually go with the length of the video in cases like this. Anything above 5 minutes is a red flag!

I had a whole list of Blogger sites with full albums, bootlegs and mixtapes in all genres. It was wild and fun.

Breadcrumbs that actually work were nice.

Long time user and occasional donor here. I agree with all your points. I love that you can customize each view (daily with humidity and “feels like”, weekly with wind speed, etc). And the widgets are just so well thought out and easy to customize to match your wallpaper. Lovely app all around.

In the csv from Reddit it shows I had over 5100 comments. I ran PowerDeleteSuite and it completely erased all my comments. I kept my account and I go back on Reddit once in a while to check and only once I had to delete a stray comment that popped back up. Otherwise my comment and post history (12 y.o. acct) is gone.

GReader was awesome. I met people from all around the world on there, some that I still keep in touch with to this day. Yes, there are alternatives and I’ve used some of them, old reader and Inoreader in particular I think offer the best experience relative to GReader (without the social aspect). You can’t recapture the past, Reader is dead and gone but I think killing it was Google’s biggest blunder. An incredible lack of foresight on their partas stated in the article.

Getting your feeds the way you want them is great. But interacting with people that are actually reading the content you share and discussing it with you is a whole different experience. I’m not talking news articles necessarily but blog posts, scientific papers, essays, etc. Anyways, yeah, I loved the damn thing and still miss what it was to this day.

I was thinking about exactly this last night. I feel like the apps we used (12 years on Reddit, with RIF for as long as I remember) were Reddit. The apps and the way we customized them created our own little Reddit universe. I’m sad for all the devs that worked on their applications and put so much work into them also. But I’ve been off Reddit for a couple of weeks and I absolutely do not miss it.