In the Latest Installment of Treating Your Content Creators Like Snowflakes
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A while back, YouTube removed public Dislike counts as announced here (emphasis added):
We’re making the dislike counts private across YouTube, but the dislike button is not going away.
This change will start gradually rolling out today.
Despite such a statement—and perhaps to no one’s surprise—YouTube recently finally added insult to injury by actually removing the Dislike button from Shorts, as announced here:
[W]e’re … retiring the dislike button.
Instead, we’ll rely on … “Not Interested” and “Don’t recommend this channel,” to … tune your feed and serve up content….
The update sparked discussion across the web, such as on the r/mildlyinfuriating subreddit.
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Says site owner Benjamin in an announcement post here:
The concept for this new version came from the realization that XenForo and WordPress didn’t really work well together. Plus, there were a lot of issues with WordPress. (Although it’s still a very good CMS, it just wasn’t right for this site.)
So I decided to rebuild the site from scratch using two frameworks:
Laravel for the content section.
XenForo for the community section.
The two work together perfectly and allow us to combine the strengths of both.
This new version comes with many changes.
New Design
New User Management
New Submission Form
Addition of Clubs
New Home Page
Improvements to the ROM Patcher and ROM Hasher
Improved Filters
Addition of the “Play Online” Feature
Documentation Available
Switch to Open Source
If you’d like to support their platform by contributing to the server operating costs, check out their Ko-Fi page here.
As consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift away from physical discs to digital, physical game disc production for all new games releasing on PlayStation consoles will be discontinued starting January 2028.
Following this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.
This transition has no impact on games that already released, or will be releasing, prior to January 2028 in disc format.