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Old YouTube is back!
17 July 2026As I have been trawling through around 20TB of raw video footage while creating the 20 year retrospective videos for my YouTube channel I came to an interesting but not surprising realisation.
Modern YouTube sucks; a lot.
Who remembers the YouTube of old?
There was no "algorithm" to feed you an endless supply of AI-created dross in an attempt to keep you on the platform and watching ads until the battery on your phone finally dies.
YouTube of old was designed first and foremost as a viewer experience. The needs and wants of viewers were the primary focus back then.
Forums are Down
Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?
I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/
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