Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by 082349872349872 1264 days ago
We probably just differ in our tastes, but I'll argue that the decreased barrier was worthless, if not actively harmful.

Look at YouTube. The things I watch on there have 10s to 100s of people-hours behind them, compared to which wrangling HTML/WebRTC/whatever would not be very significant. All the thousands of blooming flowers who are just uploading raw phone captures? That I can, and by and large do, do without.

(the best counterexample I can think of ATM are "lyrics sung to a different tune", and while it's a bit nicer to get a performance than plaintext, it's not that much better)

Bonus track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-x_1lIXh4