Indie Game/Narrative Designer
- he/him
- xuelder.neocities.org/
Tech Warlock
Weird dude who makes weird things.
Part of the Swamp, Part of the Krewe
KO-FI โ
ko-fi.com/xuelderItch ๐น๏ธ
xuelder.itch.io/
The existential birthday dread of realizing based on my family history of the last century that I am either a third or halfway through my life. I don't know which is worse tbh.
Hey, it turns out users have actual control of the platform and our collective actions had consequences.
Who would have thunk?
They went through with it. This is like the fire fighters adding gasoline to the fire.
i have literally never heard of this service of theirs, but this doesn't bode well.
I did my Takeout and it was just a bunch of pictures I stored in hangouts.
But i don't trust it to be just that. Google's good at killing things.
email transcription
Hi Lupi,
Youโre receiving this email because youโve viewed Album Archive recently or you may have some content that is visible in Album Archive. Starting on July 19, 2023, Album Archive will no longer be available. We recommend that you use Google Takeout to download a copy of your Album Archive data before then.
Today, Album Archive lets you view and manage album content from some Google products within Album Archive.
However, some content thatโs only available in Album Archive will be deleted starting July 19 including
- Rare cases like small thumbnail photos and album comments or likes
- Some Google Hangouts data from Album Archive
- Background images uploaded in the Gmail theme picker prior to 2018
If you would like to access this data, please make a copy of this data using Google Takeout. After Album Archive is no longer available, you can still use those Google products to view and manage some content directly โ learn more.
The last free, easy to use website builder that actually works is being pulled apart because Google decided they don't like hosting images for free anymore. This deletion of "rare cases of thumbnails" includes my entire online portfolio, website base images, and every single image anyone ever uploaded through Blogger. This isn't small stuff, this is entire websites we're talkin about here.
The old internet is being systematically deleted. Every old how-to website that's only still live because they were built with Blogger is going to be axed.
Fuck man, I am trying to write an essay about the post 2008 web 2.0 is collapsing in on itself and new shit like this keeps coming up. I swear this is becoming a post mortem on the silicon valley internet sphere in real time.