every website and all of its functions have gotten more difficult to use over the last 1-5 years and its getting impossible to pretend that this isnt the case
few years ago i downloaded an archive of my tweets. boom. some type of excel file. opened it perfectly. thanks. now i just requested the same archive. its a huge file with everything that ever happened to me here, and it opens as an html that links to an archive that doesnt work
so i have to google, cant open twitter archive. but they changed the function so much over the last few years i cant tell if theres a difference between an archive of my twitter data and an archive of my tweets. so i have to go read random reddit posts to figure it out
when i go back in to the request archive function theres a button to download my archive that downloads a blank pdf (???) from the website. then in some blog posts, it advises me to download source code as an html file at put it in this folder and open it as an XYZ. why
not just abstractly complaining but i think at some point we have to recognize that the internet was unintuitive (90's-some point in 2000s), then intuitive, there was a minute where things worked, but its regressing. every site has just gotten point blank harder to use over time.
the level of functionality i routinely get from some of the biggest wesites and entities online is about on par with what i would have expected from a poorly constructed fan website like fifteen years ago. its actually worse than that.
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