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floobydust:
I just see too much showboating "oh look what I made, look what I made!" and some of it is hilarious, things I made as a kid decades ago are suddenly Hollywood material  :P

The majority of maker stuff out there is people making content for getting attention, fame and glory - not the art...
People don't share. I laughed again, e.g.  sim gaming rig with youtube vids and zero BoM, sch or dimensions etc. so it can only be a showboat for someone's project- that you can't build.
3,097,749 views for part one  :palm:

Cyberdragon:
EW!

That thing is a disgrace to plywood...can't even be bothered to paint it. :clap: :-DD


--- Quote from: floobydust on December 13, 2020, 02:49:18 am ---3,097,749 views for part one  :palm:

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And then there's 5-Minute Crap-I mean Crafts...

Whales:
hackaday.com: Sometimes they link lots of junk, other times there is genuinely interesting stuff.   I've worried about them going bad before but they always manage to oscillate back.

hackaday.io: nightmare architecture, nice inhabitants.  There are some really interesting projects in there but I have to fight the interface to even be able to do simple things like read posts in order.  The interface is 99% trying to hide stuff from you, as if the site has to pay for every word printed and forcing people to navigate a maze is a good thing.  Just put all of the project's posts on one page, in order, not abbreviated, pretty pretty please  :(

I worry that behind the scenes it's some complex framework (Wordpress with multiple users?) that will one day get deemed not worth the effort/money/time and will get abandoned, banishing all of its contents to the geocitiesverse.

giant arduino: not my cup of tea, the idea tastes like Youtube thumbnails.  I'm more of a function than form person.

TERRA Operative:
Hackaday is not much more than a content aggregator. They aren't making this stuff they show off (besides a couple of their own projects here and there), they are basically just linking to it with a blurb about the project.
(I'm not going to touch the Hackaday.io thing here, that's just a big steaming pile of badly designed website poop).

Their content quality (outside their own original articles) is almost entirely dependant on what they find around the net, and mostly on what tips people submit for them to check out.
They are bankrolled by Supplyframe, and rely on advertising (which requires clicks) so they are always going to be throwing in the easy clickbaity topics. It's either that, or eventually not exist at all.

So stop your whining, and either start making your own stuff to submit (I've submitted my own projects 3 or 4 times and had my stuff shown every time within the week), submit tips to the stuff you want to see, or go make your own link aggregation site with blackjack and hookers and only the coolest of hardcore projects without a single Arduino and all the 555 timers..


What makes me laugh the most though, is how those complaining the loudest about Hackaday keep going back over and over like a junkie to crack. :D
If you don't like an article, scroll that little mouse wheel to the next one you do like. It's not philfromsealttleaday or floobydustaday or TERRAOperativeaday, everyone is going to like and dislike different things, you complain about this, they complain about that, the other person complains about something else....


Why can't we all just get along? :P

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: floobydust on December 11, 2020, 08:38:48 pm ---Hackaday is mainly showboating of one-man band projects, followed by the usual orphaned project- your basic dead end.
There is no community input or divvied up work, just "comments" after the fact. It's like a TV show for projects, Kardashians included.

I tried for two years to buy a Hackaday t-shirt. Got pissed off and flamed Elliot, muh how hard is it to order some t-shirts and have them in stock? Store - deleted lol.
Then they started the hackaday.io "platform" to pimp out people's projects. What a mess - just try clicking on "Files" for the projects and enjoy those .pdf's
Some for sale on Tindie, some open-source, others missing content enough to reproduce the build.

What is Hackaday's revenue model, how do they make profit enough to pay staff and keep the lights on?

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SEO.

The only reason I even see anything related to them is when I'm surfing around for something else and it shows up as a recommendation. Google is the financier here.

edit: read TERRA's post. Yep.



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