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?

    • Skanky@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      Sure, I’ll add to that.

      • Audacity
      • Inkscape
      • Notepad++
      • DaVinci Resolve
      • QBittorrent
      • YouTube to mpe 3 convert (the command line one - can’t remember the actual name rn)
    • tko@tkohhh.socialEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      YES to Reaper. No surprise that the original developer of Winamp makes an amazing DAW.

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
        13·
        2 days ago

        Isn’t Overwolf’s business model literally monetizing and profiting from modding communities? Curseforge and Overwolf are the epitome of enshittification.

          • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            2·
            2 days ago

            At least to me, Overwolf is the third or fourth iteration, following acquisitions, buyouts, restructurings, etc. The original FTB launcher worked perfectly fine. It’s mostly just obnoxious now and I make sure not to have it running in the background. No direct rent-seeking behavior just yet, I don’t have an account on there and it’s not a problem.

            Right now I have it on my computer just use it to update packs that are only available there and then yoink them straight into MultiMC.

            AFAIK it is owned by Curse and I guess those guys make most of their money from those godawful wikis and their ads.

            I thought I’d check this before posting it, and it turns out it’s the other way around. Overwolf bought Curse. Worse, Overwolf is a company based out of Tal Abib… that’s two discoveries in one day. I was looking into getting a CaribouMini until I learned where that comes from. Less than two hundred kilometers away from me as the missile crow flies (and sadly, has flown). Great. Fucking great.

            The shitty thing is that a lot of cool pack creators only publish through Overwolf, so I don’t want to delete it just yet, but I don’t like this at all. At best a minor security risk, at worst I don’t even want to know. I just thought it was just some shitty ad company’s Curse buyout as a billboard for more ads. For all the issues I might have with Nexus Mods, I don’t think they’re quite this bad. Concerning that this is the de facto standard repository of MC mods.

      • Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        I’m ok with things relying on ads to make a product free. Someone has to pay for a product or service, if I don’t want to pay for it, then show me an ad and let someone else pay for it. The thing that overwolf and more specifically curseforge do that keeps them out of the enshitification category for me is they simplify modding of games.

        I’ve been around since the early days of video game modding and know how hard it used to be. They have streamlined it to the point that if someone has created a mod it is a simple button click to download, and install, and then keep the mod up to date. You can even create and share collections of mods and mod packs. And if a modder has added a donate button, it’s a single click to donate to the modder. It’s everything I want out of the modding community with none of the headache, and it’s been like that for years.

    • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
      7·
      3 days ago

      I recently bought a replacement PC for my dad because of windows 11 (though his old computer was also over 10 years old so it was a somewhat fair upgrade, anyhow). Someone suggested I use Ninite to quickly bootstrap a lot of the programs he’d use and I was honestly surprised. It was genuinely no-nonsense and got the job done. A rare nice thing in Windows…