I think that what you're experiencing is pretty common. Internet itself has changed but perhaps more crucially people with whom you've interacted with changed their habits or simply lack the time they used to have (their age groups are different so there's insufficient critical mass to maintain the old community).
There's an added problem of general noise on the Internet which limits the 90s early 00s type of 'signal'. Another aspect is that services used to be quite often hosted by or aimed at the technical/enthusiastic audience, nowadays it is predominantly aimed towards commercial general public.
The internet suffers from centralisation which for the early(ish) adopters creates overall noise.
I'd also like to add that abundance of bandwidth and endless content easily take the aim and focus on doing the cherry picked and well curated things that you used to do. Bandwith has also contributed to ease of bloat, for example today I can't imagine surfing the net without an adblocker, back then ads were fine and served their purpose without impacting the client side.
More generally I believe that larger populations, whether they be large cities or large online communities, will paradoxically make it harder to find others with very specific non-majority interests.
From the mobile marketplace ecosystem point of view this isn't good for the consumer. That being said the entry barrier is quite high for anyone, even essential...
It is time for green web design and green application design (eg. lite versions of applications which are otherwise bloated like Skype with large emoticon animations).
So far I've used Chrome extension "HN current page search" which finds both HN and Reddit discussions regarding the page you happen to be on (only if you click the extension does it check).
On the other hand once Delicious closed down I've settled in for https://raindrop.io/
One of my desktops keeps failing to update Windows 10 for 2 years now, the recent v1803 doesn't fix it either. Too ineffective to do a fresh install and just about tried everything out there to fix it. Complete waste of time.
On the other hand the desktop which always worked flawlessly now cannot even get past the initial installation boot screen from a freshly made v1803 DVD/USB (within 5sec of booting) likewise the update from inside Windows itself fails. Waiting to see if MS address this issue before I waste any more time trying to fix it myself.
It is interesting to note that DDR and DDR2 are more immune to this kind of attack. Older computers with decently patches OS/browser would be safer to use for those who want to avoid Row hammer.
Thanks, I've always wondered under which conditions BSD networking performs better compared to Linux. It's the number of simultaneous streams as opposed to raw bandwidth for fewer streams.
They say that a photo is worth a thousand words. This is certainly the case with the the last few photos of the landscape how it looked before and after.
https://totl.net/Spud/