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Not all criticism is equal in value, or in a vacuum.
Coordinated review bombing — as described in the article — distorts the purpose of a review average.
Im this case we have a well- organized group of people determined to hate on a show because it offends their racial purity ideals. If you’re not part of that hate cult, when they deliberately skew the average figure in order to make a political point, that makes the review less useful.
Honestly Amazon should probably give up on reviews and do surveys instead. And they and other studios likely do this for their internal reviews, which is why we see Wheel of Time and House of the Dragon continue on despite the vocal hate cults surrounding those shows as well.
> Im this case we have a well- organized group of people determined to hate on a show because it offends their racial purity ideals.
Yeah, but looking around it looks like there's also LotR fans who are offended because they feels it shits on Lord of the Rings. Maybe not the best motivation to slam the series with 1/10's either, but certainly less bad.
And then there are others who just think it's poorly executed in general. Seems to be a mix of things.
From this perspective I’m not sure that it’s the motivation that really matters, but the effect.
If a bunch of ultra-hardcore lotr fans review bomb, the effect is the same as when republicans do it. They give their own clique outsided weight in the review average, skewing the result so it would be less representative of a true average result.
Never ceases to amaze me how ignorant people continue to make such deranged and wide generations with little or no evidence.
Let me guess, email is dead? RSS is also dead right? Literally no one ever uses them anymore. You probably think that all businesses should just all switch to TikTok and communicate with memes and dance routines.
I don't think this response is fair. RSS is dead as a widely used medium for distributing hypertext and media. A tiny number of people continue to use and promote it (myself very much included). Even for podcasts, where RSS represents the most obvious as well as original mode of distribution, a tiny number of people, probably < 5%, use RSS rather than a centralized platform.
The OP was not giving a take on whether that's a good thing or bad thing, let alone saying that everyone should "switch to TikTok" or "communicate with memes", but rather simply commenting on the above hard to dispute fact.
Don't fall into the same trap as the other dude. Those statements are patently WRONG. "Tiny number of people" is millions and millions. "<5%" is the definition of a bullshit statistic that is: a) a guess, b) very wrong with just a google search, and c) means nothing as it can't be proven.
Ironic. I guess you want me to take your word for it.
Unfortunately for you, your mockery doesn't hold up to any kind of scrutiny. Libsyn, a podcast distributor which I associate with more nerdy podcasts and competent users compared to e.g. iHeart, released user-agent stats across their entire field quite recently, back in 2021: https://thefeed.libsyn.com/193-alexa-play-the-podcast
Mobile apps not named Spotify, Stitcher, or Apple claimed a total download count of 12.6%. That 12.6% is largely composed of:
* 2.3% Google Podcasts
* 1.8% Overcast
* 1.3% Podcast Addict
* 1.2% Castbox
* 1.0% PocketCast
To the best of my knowledge, all of the above are centralized and normally fetch the RSS feed on a server instead of the app functioning as the user agent.
And so we can infer that at maximum, mobile downloads originating directly from RSS-fetching user agents represent 5% of the market for Libsyn. Desktop as a whole represented <15% of all downloads, and a huge chunk of that is going to be (once again) Apple Podcasts.
Furthermore, there are a ton of extremely popular "podcasts" (though they barely deserve the name) that are entirely centralized, being available only on one platform. This is a large portion of the market which the above figures don't reflect at all.
And so, on the basis of the evidence that is actually available, I pronounce RSS dead.
> Let me guess, email is dead? RSS is also dead right?
Sadly, yes. Businesses, and even many hackers, moved their email to the oligopolists; ditched RSS readers in favor of Twitter; switched from IRC to Slack; many people in organizations can't even be called directly, they're on MS Teams.
> Let me guess, email is dead? RSS is also dead right?
Email is dead, RSS is stone cold dead and buried under 100 ft of permafrost.
All mainstream browsers have removed RSS support. Virtually no major website still offers RSS feeds. When you see an RSS/Atom icon on a page today, it's either an old Wordpress theme that noone bothered to update, or some stubborn ideologue who insists that RSS is still a thing because there is a document somewhere that specifies it.
The dream of open syndication is over. Wanting it to be otherwise doesn't make it so.
> Email is dead, RSS is stone cold dead and buried under 100 ft of permafrost.
This claim is as bold, as it is baseless, as evidenced by dozens of emails I send and receive each day, and by the fact that I stumbled upon this thread via RSS, which I use daily to receive almost all my subscriptions.
I switched to an RSS reader recently and was shocked to find that every site I was interested in, large and small, had an RSS feed. I guess I was lucky.
Even Reddit still has RSS. And for anything that doesn't you can probably find a third party offering RSS - either something generic or specific to a website - e.g. for HN: https://hnrss.org/.
RSS is not dead per se, but it is not discoverable for normal people and not something that most typical mom'n'pop consumers or even teens would know about.
If you go around in a city asking people what a RSS feed is you will definitely will get more blanks than asking them about e-mail or facebook.
E-Mail is used a lot still, don't see that going away anytime soon either.
I made a flash cards toy app that can read data from Quizlet. I made a shitty MVP, and I'm watching people use it, and I'm seeing where they stop. With Anki, I stop immediately. No real world user is installing software like that on their device, the homepage just screams virus to someone unfamiliar with opensource. This is where I was after two hours; check back in in two weeks.
On behalf of HN (which I have no authority to speak for) please disregard that bizarre rant by our resident curmudgeon.
If you really did all that in 2 hours, that's quite an accomplishment! But I think it's a little early for a Show HN. It's tough to use without any kind of instructional text. Repost when you've got a more usable interface, and I think you'll get more traction here.
I really like how you don't require people to register. I do the same thing for all my apps, and it's great for getting people hooked. No one likes a sign up form. Just store people's data in a cookie, or localstorage until they make the decision to sign up.
Your Anki comment is spot on. When I downloaded it (a few weeks ago actually), I spent 5 minutes making sure that website was _really_ the Anki I heard about on HN.
asuth was around 15 when he built Quizlet and now it's (somehow) worth a billion. There's plenty of room for a newcomer in the market especially since Quizlet started putting things behind a paywall. Good luck!
Yea, you're kind of right, Anki isn't very user-friendly and has a massive learning curve for "today's" standard, I wouldn't say people don't install software anymore or that Anki looks like a virus.
Anyway this is really impressive for 2 hours, well done!
If you don't mind me asking, are you taking any exams, is this the reason you made it?
That’s all fine, but you didn’t need to straight up lie. You cannot really justify it. Good luck to you with it, but know that you don’t need to lie. It’s not a clone.
> With Anki, I stop immediately. No real world user is installing software like that on their device, the homepage just screams virus to someone unfamiliar with opensource.
That’s a huge generalization. I’m a really world user and I use it heavily. I know many non-technical friends who use it as well. It screams virus for the ignorant. Don’t appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Quizlet’s killer features is that they have text books that are ready to use, and lots of decks that are ready to use. Your app will break if they stop allowing exporting data.
That’s because this is not art. Contemporary / modern “art” in general is pure crap, and is absolutely NOT art. It’s formed of a circle jerk of people who pretend like their work has a meaning or that they understand each other’s work. Art reflects the life view of the artist, and we can clearly see that this reflects nothing. All people involved know that it’s BS but they’re all afraid to be the odd one out or are directly profiting from people’s stupidity. It always comes down to pretentious elitist assholes who think they’re too intellectual to work for a living.
1) One of GPT-3 usage guideline was not to make the app available for public without an account. I am required to send the userID for every GPT request by their guidelines, so I had to force-signin for now. I am considering to make a guest_mode in the near future tho.
2) Seeing the trend here, I'll make a email signup asap
