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The Untold Story of why YouTube is removing Community Contributions; YouTube CC History pt. 4

In the later half of the 2010’s YouTube began putting a greater emphasis on international accessibility over accessibility for the deaf. This change in policy, alienated the Deaf Community who began to criticize the increasing inadequacy of closed captions on the website. The ensuing events would bring about the rise and fall of the feature known as community contributions.

By themadprogramer September 18, 2020History, News1 Comment

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The History of Invidious

Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube. It lets you load YouTube videos in a lightweight, open source, free software interface with no ads and without your browser loading Google…

By Cadence September 1, 2020History, News, Op-Ed3 Comments

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Invidious Shutting Down

So, you remember when we wrote about annotations? Well, the site we have them stored on is going down, namely invidious, the open-source YouTube frontend. Omar, the person running it,…

By glmdgrielson August 30, 2020News1 Comment

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Adobe’s “End of Life” Killswitch for Flash Player

3 years ago Adobe announced their plans to end their development and support for Flash Player on December 31, 2020, the "end of life" date. More recently they've authored an…

By themadprogramer August 23, 2020NewsNo Comments

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The Impact of YouTube Removing Community-Contributed Closed Captions

For about a decade now, YouTube has supported one form or another of contributing closed captions on videos which don't already have them. Which is why it is an absolutely HORRIBLE idea that they've decided to remove them by September 28, without offering any real alternatives.

By themadprogramer August 14, 2020NewsNo Comments

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Search for Sound: A New Feature on Internet Archive

If you've been browsing the Internet Archive recently, you might have noticed a new search option called "Search radio transcripts". You can now search through radio broadcasts as if looking…

By themadprogramer August 12, 2020NewsNo Comments

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Classic Google Sites To Disappear Starting November 1, 2020

I recently received an email from Google stating that websites created in the original version of Google Sites need to be converted to the new Google Sites format. Sites that…

By tech234a August 8, 2020NewsNo Comments

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The Hidden Palace’s Prototype Collection is now Playable Online!

The Hidden Palace recently finished uploading their collection of 900+ video game prototypes to the Internet Archive. The Hidden Palace is a digital preservation community which has been collecting games…

By themadprogramer July 21, 2020NewsNo Comments

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News Flash: Flashpoint 8.1 Out Now!

Flashpoint, the webgame preservation project, received a pretty large "minor" update this week, Flashpoint 8.1: "Spirit of Adventure", grab it over at https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads/BlueMaxima hasn't made a Medium post for this release,…

By themadprogramer July 3, 2020NewsNo Comments

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News Flash: Kongregate is Fading

I remember playing a lot of Flash games. Good way to get entertainment on a budget of zero. One of the big sites for those, Kongregate, though, is beginning to…

By glmdgrielson July 1, 2020NewsNo Comments