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I have started working on that article since May 1st, 2020. The article is 35 thousand characters long by now. The original purpose of that article was for me and anyone who knows of the article to be able to share it in online debates regarding this and similar topics (e.g. planned obsolescence) to avoid having to explain it over and over again. The view counter indicates 10316 at the moment.

Another article with a considerable amount of views is “”, which has exactly 1999 views as of typing this. So the first one of you who opens it will be the 2000th viewer! I have also worked on “” and “”

If any of you has suggestions for improving these articles, please comment your suggestions. You are also able to create an account there and contribute.

I have chosen EverybodyWiki for my articles because it currently appears to be operated by sane anti-deletionists (they rescue deletion-endangered content from Wikipedia including orphaned draft articles that Wikipedia . Idiotic rule, I know.) and because of that view counter (because I wish to know how many people actually read my work there).

The view count can be seen at the bottom of the page.

I have started working on that article since May 1st, 2020. The article is 35 thousand characters long by now. The original purpose of that article was for me and anyone who knows of the article to be able to share it in online debates regarding this and similar topics (e.g. planned obsolescence) to avoid having to explain it over and over again. The view counter indicates 10316 at the moment. Another article with a considerable amount of views is *“[Benefits of optical media](https://en.everybodywiki.com/Benefits_of_optical_media)”*, which has exactly 1999 views as of typing this. So the first one of you who opens it will be the 2000th viewer! I have also worked on *“[Criticism of Reddit](https://en.everybodywiki.com/Criticism_of_Reddit)”* and *“[Criticism of Apple](https://en.everybodywiki.com/Criticism_of_Apple)”* If any of you has suggestions for improving these articles, please comment your suggestions. You are also able to create an account there and contribute. I have chosen *EverybodyWiki* for my articles because it currently appears to be operated by sane anti-deletionists (they rescue deletion-endangered content from Wikipedia including orphaned draft articles that Wikipedia [deletes after half a year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:G13). Idiotic rule, I know.) and because of that view counter (because I wish to know how many people actually read my work there). The view count can be seen at the bottom of the page.

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[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Never heard of EverybodyWiki before. Pretty cool.

I need to read your article. The optical media one was interesting. I didn't think about the aspect of electrical faults not damaing the media, like in a lightning storm. I have been planning to keep my most critical files on M-Disc for a while, making a backup once a month or once a year, perhaps.

Just wish the storage amount was greater. I guess you get to pick what's actually important.

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Thanks alot for your feedback!

Yes, sadly the storage of optical media is rather limited for today's dimensions (although 4.7 GB was astronomical in 1996. Many computers had smaller internal hard drives! But I was not even alive back then.)

There were projects such as Hyper CD-ROM and Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) that sadly never saw the light of day.

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Isn't that amazing? And dual-layer DVDs...8GB...holy mother of god that was huge.

Even the 50GB of blu-ray recordables isn't very big anymore. Speaking of that, have you used those? I have a bunch of DVD-R that are 15 years old and still readable save one dual-layer disc. I need some sort of medium-term storage that isn't hard drives.

edit: eh, they never did get cheap enough to be useful. Never mind...

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Even the 50GB of blu-ray recordables isn't very big anymore. Speaking of that, have you used those?

Yes.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

That is true, it does seem to be stagnating a bit. And yeah -- even more so, 700MB (or did it start at 650MB?) was even more impressive for 198...5?

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Really good entry, congratulations. I was just thinking about the timeline of design features the other day and you put it into an article! 100 percent agree with your sentiments, would like to hear more about "planned flaws" and the time these changes started to occur (you listed 2010's for the batteries which was excellent). For example, in addition to the removal of private batteries, the removal of expandable storage via memory cards. I feel like this whole change in design has been memory holed. I talk to people about this and they look at me like I'm speaking an alien language, says a lot about consumerism.

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Side question: How did you discover Poal.co?

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Once reddit finally turned into a cuck supercell I was looking for an alternative, initially went to voat but voat went down for like 4 months, so I wound up here. Poal's sort of in a perpetual state of building up to be something great but it can never quite get there, I like it though.

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A warm welcome to Poal.

Here is a zone free from stupid bans.

Also, if you have terrible experiences with any moderation and/or administration on any site, feel free to share it to .

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First of all, welcome to Poal!

Really good entry, congratulations.

Much appreciated!

the removal of expandable storage via memory cards.

Yes, I despised that too. I was absolutely shocked about the Galaxy S6, where Samsung pretty much betrayed their loyal power-user audience.

says a lot about consumerism.

And about .