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What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 days ago by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

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[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Not sure if they qualify as "services," but discogs, rateyourmusic and genius are holding up fairly well. IMDB is also pretty good, still.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

IMDB is also pretty good, still.

Sure, it's still useable. But the redesign a few years ago made it harder to use and I'm still mad about them removing their forums. Who dares to talk about movies and TV shows on a platform meant for that.

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I swear I ran into a problem with IMDb having some basic stuff like "what has this actor been in recently" stuck behind their IMDbPro paywall at some point in the last couple years.

But I just went and checked a few movies and shows, can't seem to replicate that issue anywhere.

I either hallucinated it, or they rolled back the enshittification after seeing a drop in traffic, not sure

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

They toyed around with moving things in and out of public. I'm not sure i've seen the what else get chained off, but for a while you coudn't get much information about anyone. That's when I started using Wiki

[–] edible_funk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

IMDb is so enshittified nobody uses it anymore. Bad example.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

what do people use instead?