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.]
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;This site is extremely uncomfortable to read on mobile (iOS).
Personal fresh-setup first steps:
• StartAllBack heavily modified for WinXP look-and-feel
• Win10Privacy (yes, it handles Win11), with all Windows Store apps yoinked except for store and media utilities
• Raphire/Win11Debloat
• builtbybel/WinSlop
That alone handles a majority of the rip-and-tear I have to do with a fresh Windows installation. Sure, there is a lot more after that, but these seem to handle at least â…” of all the heavy lifting.
So honestly, aside from the hour or two it takes to run all of these and confirm everything has been voilently excised, AI isn’t really a high concern for me.
Right now my short-term fear surrounds the OOBE blocking of local accounts on Home/Pro outside of domain usage. There are still workarounds, but who knows how long they’ll last. Currently trying to design a truly universal image that can be flashed/imaged such that any typical x64 system can at least boot into the Administrator account so that other local accounts can be made manually.
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.net
Whoever wants to get the message across has certainly big motivations ;)
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
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.
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.
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.
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."
Irony is that this site itself is text-book, generated slop.
I do not care how good your point is, even satirical, noble-minded slop is a waste of our collective time and energy.
You should unslop your scroll, whats your strategy to fix half my viewport? I’ll tell you what it is - SLOP ;)
"Clawdbot, make me a website about how evil AI is. And make it snappy!"
Microsoft wants to be a Slopopoly, the single source of slop.
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.
what's the point of this site?
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).