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  Retr0id
  The irony is that this site is clearly vibecoded, especially the https://status.microslop.com/ page, which "works" by requesting `https://outlook.office365.com/owa/healthcheck.htm` which is nonexistent and returns a 500 error but the code doesn't seem to detect that (and I don't think it could even if it wanted to, due to CORS).
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  leshenka
  At least they're being honest about the counter in their source: // Starting value (high number to suggest ongoing problem) let currentCount = 8_472_000;
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  piker
  Flagged this. As much as I also love to dunk on Microsoft, this kind of crapware is not the way to do it. [I personally] don’t want this on the front page. [And I think others should join me in that belief. Let’s try to keep it a place for interesting things that took some effort.][edited based on feedback.]
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  CrazyStat
  This site is extremely uncomfortable to read on mobile (iOS).
• mx_03
  There was this old hispanic site called mocosoft (moco translates to booger) that was succesfully sued by Microsoft due to a very similar name.Or at least the mocosoft owener received a ceise and desist by Microsoft and decided to drop the site.I expect something similar with this site
• oersted
  The site itself it's quite the slopfest too!There's no manifesto ("manifest"??), the counter is completely fake, and the tracker doesn't show any of the user submitted reports.There's nothing here other than: "Microsoft is integrating AI into their products and I don't like it, build a website about it please". It barely even has anything to do with Microsoft, it's more of a shallow "AI is bad" take.Is this meant to be satire? It's rather in bad taste if you ask me, I have no idea how it got so many upvotes.
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  gary17the
  The Microslop Manifesto hitting the front page of Hacker News and Anthropic Claude servers showing "Partial Outage" at exactly the same time - a coincidence? "I think not."
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  phaser
  Is Microsoft the really the main force drowning the internet in slop? I appreciate the discussion on the subject but why is it so specific on Microsoft and the userbase of Bing?It’s funny because I wanted to register this domain for the lulz 3 months ago (Microslop is a fictional company in my videogame Microlandia) but the price was ~15k so i settled for the cheaper microslop.netWhoever wants to get the message across has certainly big motivations ;)
• mittermayr
  Attention, attention, and more attention. That's what that is.First it was crypto, now it's things like this, literal slop that helps absolutely nobody, doing the very thing it claims needs to be stopped: polluting the internet.I get it, everyone wants attention, but figure out a better way, do it right.Also, "Microslop is a satirical mirror" seems like some heavy lifting on overselling the message here. People need to stop pooping in the pool, so, to bring awareness to this, I will now poop in the pool.
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  elcapitan
  I get the naming from the other thread, but is any of this particularly Microsoft-specific? Google creates a mess in search and their docs as well, slop code is one the main artifact of all these AI tools, and bloat, hallucinations and the sloppification of web content is a general problem.
• TechSquidTV
  "Clawdbot, make me a website about how evil AI is. And make it snappy!"
• belabartok39
  Irony is that this site itself is text-book, generated slop.
• mpalmer
  I do not care how good your point is, even satirical, noble-minded slop is a waste of our collective time and energy.
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  wonsukchoi97
  what's the point of this site?
• DonHopkins
  Microsoft wants to be a Slopopoly, the single source of slop.
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  api
  The AI backlash is interesting to watch. It’s both right and wrong.It’s right that slop is real and a lot of present AI is crap, and it’s right about the risks to employment and the economy. But when it comes to the first, it’s wrong that this won’t get better. AI is advancing rapidly.When it comes to economics, AI is just bringing to a head long standing fundamental problems with wealth distribution and fairness that have been building for a long time. AI might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, but the camel isn’t looking so hot. Before AI hit big we already had two generations priced out of housing.The story on journalism and public discourse is, I think, similar. AI might be the last nail in that coffin but the coffin was already closed and the man was already dead. Social media algorithms and man-made disinformation killed public discourse more than a decade ago. Any solution to those problems should also help the slop problem.My point is that all these problems were nearing crisis level without AI and would still demand solutions without AI. AI might actually help by making them no longer possible to ignore.Meanwhile all this criticism totally ignores what AI will make possible and is already making possible. Typical human negativity bias.