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Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

much of reddit is trash but i will say it has replaced the utility i used to get out of tech support forums on official sites. like these days if i need help with something in ableton or some adobe product i am far more likely to find a useful and current answer on reddit than i am on abletons help forum or any adobe site. but again thats not because reddit is particularly good but because the official sources/forums have just become more and more useless and kind of semi-abandoned.

its also good for news/updates about specific bands, the kind of stuff you used to find on fan forums.

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Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

i would like to find a group of likeminded internet historians with whom to re-enact the great rec.music.industrial "is nine inch nails industrial or pop" flame war of 1995

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Klyith posted:

The only thing worse than reddit, ugh. "How do I do Thing X with Software Y and Hardware Z?"

2018: google it, click first link

2024: google that "+ reddit", look through a bunch of reddit threads

you can also go to youtube and sit through 2 minutes of animated logos for a one-person production company and then 5 minutes of a teenager's tedious introduction and over-explanation of Software Y's basic menu systems and a ceremonial unboxing of Hardware Z, until you find maybe seventeen relevant seconds actually explaining how to do Thing X except it turns out it doesnt work with the particular version of the OS you are running

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

Revins posted:

I've definitely gotten information about obscure tech stuff from reddit but this is my internet home, posting on reddit would feel like a betrayal

a betrayal of what?

reddit sucks but the traditional "enemies" of SA are fark, maddox, and ebaumsworld

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

portal of evil was a good site back in the day it was like a whole directory of cesspools from all over the web i think thats how i originally came across this place. and stile project. and sean baby. and a bunch of other poo poo

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