Maybe website guestbooks should come back.
We didn't even notice that Google killed its most beautiful flower, Search, more than 15 whole years ago.
Be careful with that 'we' unless you've got a frog in your pocket. Because not everyone fell for the shell game.
The sad part for me is seeing so many people today saying the exact same things as they refused to hear from me and those like me a generation ago. And then slowly realizing no one is listening to them either.
@arielmt every now and then i rotate the idea of how to make a guestbook where i won't get immediately hatecrimed at without having to bring unwieldy antispam measures into it
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@arielmt I have thought before about whether I should put a guestbook on my website, but I'm concerned about spam and moderation. I sometimes see websites where the owner isn't active anymore and the comments are just completely full of spam. Maybe something like "click this checkbox to confirm you're not a robot" or "type in the name of the web site" would keep out the most stupidest spambots, but it wouldn't hold up against someone wanting to put horrible things onto my website on purpose.
Thoughts? Maybe I could approve guestbook entries manually? If you have a website with a guestbook, what do you do?
Like the rest of the World Wide Web, they didn't go away. We did.
We got lured away from the World Wide Web into the shiny and green walled gardens. Now we forgot what's beyond that wall, and we're only just noticing that the garden's flowers are wilted and its grass is long since dead.
The World Wide Web is still there, only diminished by our absence and invisible behind the walls of the worst tech corporations selling us a utopia that isn't.