Decayed
The web changes. This index keeps track of sites that used to earn recommendation status and have since degraded.
- Apartment Therapy decayedThere is still useful home advice here, though the site has grown busier and thinner than its best period. Visit siteDecayed: The archive remains useful, but present-day presentation leans harder on packaging and lighter on substance.
- Fandom decayedStill hosts useful fan knowledge, but aggressive ads and clutter often make the knowledge itself hard to reach. Visit siteDecayed: Wiki content is often still there, but autoplay, ad load, and clutter now regularly overpower the reading experience.
- Metacritic decayedScore aggregation remains useful, though the site has gotten slower, louder, and less pleasant than it was. Visit siteDecayed: The core aggregation still helps, but clutter and uneven maintenance make the experience worse than its earlier utility.
- Pinterest decayedStill occasionally useful for tracing visual motifs, though login pressure and recycled pages have made it worse. Visit siteDecayed: Original source discovery is slower now because prompts, duplicates, and recycled SEO pages often intervene.
- Quora decayedThere are still occasional useful answers here, but the signal is now buried under prompts, spam, and friction. Visit siteDecayed: Heavy login pressure, AI sludge, and uneven moderation have badly damaged what was once a better question archive.
- Roadtrippers decayedStill handy for road-route planning, though more of the good stuff now sits behind product layers. Visit siteDecayed: The core trip-planning idea remains good, but more features now push toward paid gating and product friction.
- Stack Overflow decayedStill worth searching for old answers first, even if the social climate and surface quality have softened. Visit siteDecayed: The archive remains valuable, but newer content quality and site atmosphere are less consistently helpful than before.