On phlog archives and how WWW really is a plague
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I never really thought about making phlog archives by year - I always
just did it. When the year was over, I took all the content of phlog
folder and moved it to archive. When I started phlogging seven years
ago, gopherspace was a very different kind of place. Just few people
had a phlog and almost never somebody linked/mentioned anybody else.
That changed in last year, now phlogosphere is more like a community
and even my few posts were already mentioned by someone else. So 2017
will be the first year on this phlog, that won't be moved to archive.
I have to change the script generating phlog gophermap, because at
the moment it can't sort files by year as they're named MM-YYYY.txt
and renaming them to more convenient YYYY-MM.txt would break links
anyway. But that should be just minor problem and I'll gladly do it.
And now for the second part of the title: WWW is really a plague. It
started as a good idea, but what happened just today is for me the end
of any hope that anybody can make web great again.
There is a very good Czech board about mechanical watches. It has
hundreds of users and discussion threads, there are watch reviews,
beautiful photos of watch details and a good, helpful community. And
out of sudden, the owner of the forum decided to put a coinhive script
in the code to mine cryptocurrencies on member's computer. You just
visit the page and boom - all your CPU cores are loaded to the max,
making profit for someone else on your expense.
Now I have to start using WWW browser, that has anti-mining plugins
available, which sadly is not my current browser - Pale Moon.
Technology that permits this kind of behavior is dead for me. Death to
the World-Wide-Web, long live the Gopher!
