Can you elaborate on the issues you're talking about? I support a couple of creators and my interactions with the site have been fine, so I'm curious what issues you have with it.
I support a few web novel authors on Patreon, and the website on mobile is so bad that I read the new chapters in my email client.
In fact, I am extremely hesitant about starting any new subscriptions because of how bad it is. (and I do not look forward to reading all the catchup chapters on that interface, not to mention trying to search through where I left off on the publicly posted content without getting spoiled by chapter titles.)
It takes ages to load,
content is not on pages, its all streamed in order, and there is just a ton of lag trying to scroll through and find things.
If you click away and try to come back, welp, good luck finding where you left off, better hope you had that chapter number memorized.
Did I mention the lag? It takes like 10 seconds to load a text only section.
Seconded. The experience of reading book chapters through Patreon is utterly abysmal. I don't know why Royal Road hasn't added direct integration or at least password protection like pirateaba does yet.
I subscribe to a couple of podcasts and adventure/DND audio shows on Patreon. Their audio player works so poorly in Firefox that I literally ended up swapping over to Safari full time for daily browsing just because I was using it so much to listen to those podcasts/DND shows on Patreon.
I bought a few 8th gen intel NUC mainboards off of ebay. I loaded them up with an SSD and RAM they work very well. Depending on how you want to manage your containers/VMs, a hypervisor is something to look into. I've been trying Proxmox on all my NUCs and they perform great, but there are other hypervisors out there.
I ordered two DIY pro kits (with the TVOC sensors) earlier this month and went to start working on them yesterday. After flashing the firmware, neither one would create a hotspot for me to connect to. Looking at them and doing some googling, i found they include knock-off Wemos D1 minis (labeled "mimi"). It looks like they're aware there are Wi-Fi issues, but the chips are still being used [0][1]. I sent in an email yesterday but I'm not expecting a response until at least tomorrow.
As others have said, the Wadworth Constant. You used to be able to add &wadsworth=1 to any youtube url and it would automatically skip ahead. They got rid of it at some point though.
If you find yourself constantly searching for highlights, I highly recommend the SponsorBlock extension (https://sponsor.ajay.app/), which crowdsources this job effectively (as well as targeting sponsored regions, credits, etc.)
Using the extension I could hit "return" to jump to results at 5:28.
"Craigslist has sued or issued cease-and-desist letters to dozens of startups in recent years. A New York Times technology blog last year complained that the site "has dug an effective moat by cultivating an exaggerated image of 'doing good' that keeps its customers loyal, while behind the scenes, it bullies any rivals that come near and it stifles innovation."
The article itself is a little old, but it still holds true.
Re-read the article, the author does not give a primary source and cites a different article. The subjects of the lawsuits (from many years ago) seem to be sites that are scraping ads/listings on craigslist and mass populating their own site to make it seem as if they have users OR they are sites that are aggregating the information on craigslist and trying to pass themselves off as affiliated with craigslist by using their trademarks.
If you've ever searched for an apartment or a car for sale you'll find that many of the new and popular sites are literally just posting ads scraped from craigslist.
