I have round the D forum to be quite pleasant, although I don't really use it: https://forum.dlang.org/
But my favorite remains mailing lists with a web interface, like on sourcehut: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/public-inbox. It's hard to beat it in terms of lightweightness
My suspicion is that unusable websites on mobile is one third lack of motivation or awareness (as in old websites), one third incompetence (where an attempt was made but it isn't useable) and one third deliberate to force you onto an app (masquerading as incompetent).
Discourse is 80% good and sane defaults, but 20% utterly unbearable tut-tutting by people who seem convinced they know how other people should run their communities.
As a user, you will be constantly nudged and prodded and notified, and as an admin you can't do anything about it.
e.g. I would like weekly summaries mailed. You can't, you can only get summaries if you haven't visited the site in a while. Because it's not a feature designed to help users keep track of the site, but a lure designed to bring inactive users back to the site.
This is how the people who build it think, and it is irritating af. It's gen-Z style mothering and busybodying and it needs to die in a fire.
I remember when this was announced. The website is so spectacularly bad, and so deeply and embarrassingly inappropriate (huge complicated sluggish incompatible mess, for what was a tiny, efficient, old player), that it put me off.
Also, any mention of NFTs screams "SCAMMERS!" at me.
So, anyway, I tried it.
I recently got a Win7 installation back up and running. It's a few years old but it's never really been used, so it's clean and fast. WinAmp seemed appropriate.
It installs. Then the all-default installation tells me I didn't install some subsystem I need for the skin I chose, and reverts to the old one.
Well, it is a beta.
I tried it for a while, streaming a radio station I listen to a lot (and am listening to now, via iTunes).
The songs regularly sllloooowwwweeeedddd doooooooooowwn for a bit when my CPUs got busy, then caught it. It was distracting. I don't know if this is Windows' fault or mine, but I don't expect that in 2022, even on an OS from a dozen years back.
It works. It's not a great experience, but it works.
Wonder if I can install an ancient version of Netscape 7 and extract the Netscape WinAmp skin? That was a favourite, about 20 years ago...
I loved Visual Studio (and Visual C++ before it), but after firing it up again and seeing the same ridiculous defects 10 years later was pretty disheartening.
That is a monster migration. I wonder how big the migration compatibility list was. I haven't used VS since about 2017, but in some ways I miss it. It's big and unwieldy, but very powerful and helpful and was a staple of my 20s as a software dev.
I remember doing it to one of our legacy projects and the list was so long I just created new solutions and projects from scratch and copy the files over one at a time and ran them independently so I could slowly ensure everything worked
Had to do many VS migrations and in the end, proper version control system hygiene has helped a lot. Moving the strict necessary code and metadata only (.sln, .csproj and so on) and letting the IDE rebuild the rest has been the easiest.
You know, with all the UUID garbage these solution files have inside, I expected VS to recognize and set everything to right places. But NO. NONE of my projects could be built in the next release. NEVER. The errors are chaotic and it becomes easier to just write that sh* by hand in notepad. But what would you expect from an evilcorp?..
huhhh I thought they had their own in-house tracker parser. I always had the impression that some songs just sound better in winamp compared to any other player I've tried.
WinAmp's mod player was wildly inaccurate anyway, so it's probably not a great loss. IIRC it specifically didn't support a lot of IT features (instrument filter envelopes, etc)
The feature comparison chart between 4 and 5 would not look good. I have yet to find a media player that offers as many available settings for auto-transcoding and directory structuring on sync as Winamp 4.x.x . I bought a license back in 2016 or so to sync music to sd cards for a car I had.
There's another open-source media player that will let you load up WinAmp skins. But heck if I can remember what it was, or find it. It looks nothing like WinAmp without the skins though...
While I was searching, I did find this though. http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ QMMP seems to be a QT-based player that looks like WinAmp.
And I can't find a WinAmp clone that works on MacOS, either. I'm dying for one since I have to use a Mac for work, and that's when I do most of my listening. I love having the little tiny player up in the corner. Visible, accessible, but out of the way because it's so small and you can shade the window!
EDIT: I found it! Audacious supports WinAmp skins also!
