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10 votes
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Sidephone - Your simple second phone
18 votes -
Twingate: Go beyond VPN
9 votes -
Highlighting text in Wikipedia scrolls up too fast?
To be honest I have some problems explaining what I mean, which might be why I can't find a solution or explanaition for it. I use firefox on Linux and out of habit i highlight text while reading...
To be honest I have some problems explaining what I mean, which might be why I can't find a solution or explanaition for it.
I use firefox on Linux and out of habit i highlight text while reading it. I always did that and it helps me to read a lot faster and to relax my eyes while reading. It's something i don't think i can get rid of, even if I tried, it's just so deeply burned in.
As well I use to scroll the text I'm reading to the top out of the same reasons or maybe it's just habit as well, but I realised I cannot get rid of it as well :-)So no to my problem:
Usually this works flawless, i can highlight text and have the cursor where I'm reading in the topmost visible line. But for some strange reason this does not work in the "new" wikipedia layout. where if I highlight text in the upper third of the page it scrolls upwards quite fast which just fucks up everything and makes my day bad. (this behaviour is not present in the old design which e.g. the germand wikipedia still uses)Is it me?
Is it my browser?
Is there a way to get rid of this, so I can keep my workflow while reading and learing on wikipedia? Is somebody else observing this behaviour?
Where can I even start to look for a solution? I don't even know what to look for.It truly bothers me, as I'm close to every day on it, and it might be my favorite website.
I heard there is a way to switch to the old wikipedia layout, which might be a workaround. But I actually like the new Layout a lot, so if there is a way to avoid that it would be great :-)18 votes -
I am baffled by the existence of Wattpad
wattpad.com is a popular website where mostly young people host their fiction so it get votes and visibility. I was feeling lonely, and my usual online mates are not enthusiastic about reading my...
wattpad.com is a popular website where mostly young people host their fiction so it get votes and visibility.
I was feeling lonely, and my usual online mates are not enthusiastic about reading my stuff, and I am always in search of feedback. So I got in touch with online groups for those who have an interest in writing. Mostly young people who, seemingly in their early 20s, give or take. Someone asked me if I was making something for the "Wattys", which I later learned is Wattpad's literary award. Another gave me a link to read his stuff on Wattpad. I had to make an account to read it on my phone. Annoying, but they kinda asked me nicely, so I installed it and created an account. Way too many hoops just to read some text, but okay! I started reading. There was an ad below, but that's okay. Suddenly, my phone was taken over by a full-screen ad. A full-screen ad. FOR TEXT. That was too much so I started looking for a way to read Wattpad outside of Wattpad. Maybe there is, but I paused my search to make this post.
Displaying text is a solved problem, and it has been for quite some time. It is so fucking trivial, I coud write a novel right here on this text box! I now hate Wattpad with such a passion, I don't think I'm reading that kid's story!
Wattpad feels like someone trying to fuck up reading.
On another note, I find it a little unsettling how these kids seem more concerned with their marketing than their writing. They have full press kits even before they learn the basics of writing proper sentences. There is also no love for short stories, they start writing novels as soon as they start writing. Everything is a novel with twenty chapters. I'm pretty sure Wattpad has a hand in that. But maybe that's just me being old, so feel free to disregard that.
I get the idea of a website that helps readers find authors, but in some sense at least, Wattpad feels like a water popsicle an I hate it.
40 votes -
Melonland
26 votes -
On the Resistance in Belgium platform, anyone can research resistance activities in Belgium during World War II
13 votes -
Yugologo, an archive of business logos from the former Yugoslavia
37 votes -
Tokyo Game Life: Moai in Japanese games (podcast)
14 votes -
The GeoCities Website Maker is a fun and charming way to turn any modern webpage into a nostalgic 90s-style site
26 votes -
Kindle modding wiki
24 votes -
curaturae: write with Smithsonian's Open Access imagery (2022)
7 votes -
WordSafety: check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
19 votes -
CSS Naked Day
23 votes -
Google AI search shift leaves website makers feeling “betrayed”
36 votes -
PoetiCal: an experimental, collaborative publication only accessible through a calendar app
6 votes -
Seven39 - Social media that’s only open from 7:39 PM to 10:39 PM, EST
36 votes -
How do you find new movies to watch?
Lately I’ve been watching movies every night, after many years of only rarely watching them. There are a lot of mediocre websites to find movies. What do you use? Who are your favorite critics?
10 votes -
LostMyspace.com: recovered music from the botched Myspace server migration
39 votes -
The M train is now departing (2011)
9 votes -
LocalSend: a free, open-source, cross-platform app to share files to nearby devices
62 votes -
A summary of my bot defence systems
11 votes -
HOTGLUE.ME :: unique tool for web publishing & internet samizdat
17 votes -
The French Tutorial - Learn French for free
9 votes -
(715) 999-7483 - A phone-powered multiplayer website builder
32 votes -
BookFusion: upload, organize, read, share and sync your eBooks
25 votes -
A Reykjavík building that houses a penis museum and an H&M is also the virtual home to an array of perpetrators of identity theft, ransomware and disinformation
14 votes -
Holotypic Occlupanids - How the internet invented bread clip science
14 votes -
Stretch My Time Off - Optimise your vacation days
34 votes -
Algorithmic complacency: Algorithms are breaking how we think
82 votes -
The 88x31 GIF Collection
64 votes -
Distributed Denial of Secrets
15 votes -
US documents say Project 2025’s creators The Heritage Foundation want to dox Wikipedia’s volunteer editors of pages related to Palestine conflict using powerful tools
33 votes -
European search engines
38 votes -
library.gamehistory.org — now in early access
16 votes -
What it's like to create a simple, free website in 2025
26 votes -
MeroChat is a open source website that helps you to find people to chat with
15 votes -
US based The Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
81 votes -
Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the US South
53 votes -
Ctrl-c ten year anniversary and the issue of Ctrl-ZINE to go with it
14 votes -
Spotify shuts down ‘Unwrapped’ artist royalty calculator with legal threats – site still includes the formula behind the calculator for artists and music lovers who are curious
54 votes -
New website shows you how much Google AI can learn from your photos
31 votes -
You should have a website
37 votes -
blogroll.club - A blog directory
15 votes -
100 Days To Offload
6 votes -
City Sizes: City size comparison tool
35 votes -
A website that shows which physical game releases actually run offline
39 votes -
Starlink Direct to Cell
25 votes -
Help with Email & Changing Name Servers/Webhost?
Alright, time to ask for help. I designed a website for my cousin using Wordpress, hosted via BlueHost. It's 99% done. The problem: she'd originally registered her domain through wordpress.com....
Alright, time to ask for help. I designed a website for my cousin using Wordpress, hosted via BlueHost. It's 99% done.
The problem: she'd originally registered her domain through wordpress.com. She also has an email through that, which she accesses via Google Workplace. We've transferred the domain, but the nameservers are still registered to wordpress.com. I've found the guides for transferring nameservers on BlueHost and wordpress.com, but this is a step above what I've dealt with in the past.
My main concern and frustration are the email. She's already using it for work, and I want to make sure there's no downtime, but I... honestly have no idea how it's even set up, right now. Or how this would work when transferring hosts entirely. Attempts to search it haven't been too helpful for me.
So my questions: How will changing nameservers impact the email? Would updating them potentially just... break her email entirely? Need her to set up the email separately? And if she does, can it be kept through Google Workplace/Gmail since that's what she's already using? Is it fine to leave it as-is? I assume not but her wordpress.com account shows that it expires in 2027, so...?
Just, please help.
10 votes -
Bespoke Synth - a highly modular DAW
25 votes