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Just started getting this now. Hopefully it's some A/B testing that they'll stop doing, but I'm not holding my breath

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[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 52 points 10 hours ago

I know this may come off as a surprise: but I imagine that requiring JS in 2024 isn't a big deal to most people.

Now of course Lemmy skews more into that small crowd.

I don't blame any website for requiring JS for full functionality in 2024.

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 2 points 1 hour ago

I agree that it's not a big deal, but there still should be an option in my opinion. It can be a lifesaver to be able to search on older devices.

[-] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 23 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

All of the people replying to this saying you shouldn't need JS are totally unaware how modern web development works.

Yes, you could do many sites without JS, but the entire workforce for web development is trained with JS frameworks. To do otherwise would slow development time down significantly, not allow for certain functionality to exist (functionality you would 100% be unhappy was missing).

Its not a question of possibility, its a question of feasibility.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 4 hours ago

I wish JS would die and we get nice and simple websites back. I hate web dev so god damn much. The internet is pure enshittification

[-] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 8 points 2 hours ago

I don't know how to tell you this, but removing JS doesn't turn the internet into a wonderland. Capitalism is to blame for enshitification not JS

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 12 points 7 hours ago

My question is if it wasn't required before and is required now, what changed? It's not like Google has added a killer feature recently - this is almost certainly related to those shitty AI answers that are forcing your actual search results even further down the page than they were already.

[-] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It wasn't required, but id wager 99% of website that exist currently run JS in some form or another for something.

Id wager its impossible to have anything dynamic on a webpage without JS (minus visual dynamics which can be handled with css), at that point you have to replace it with a different programming language and every browser needs to completely change gears to allow other code to run instead. But what advantage is gained by changing to another programming language? Cleaner code w/ less jankyness? Sure I guess, but we would be moving mountains to accomplish a silly thing.

I'm wondering if many people in this thread understand what JS is and does.

[-] auzy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Even things like lazy loading and such require js though

A lot of features might not be obvious honestly

If you're interested though, you could check the source which should be able to tell you immediately what they use it for

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I love how Lemmy users just assume everyone is a coder... Just a funny observation, not being rude. Lol

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 56 points 10 hours ago

Google is a text input and a list of links. It should work without JS.

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip -2 points 10 hours ago

It's far more than that. Even on a basic search page. Ever expanded the 'Peaplo also ask' section, for example? It loads more results based on your scroll position or interaction.
There's loads of little things like this, you may just not notice or care about it - which is another discussion.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 25 points 9 hours ago

This is an optional feature. The core search functionality does not require JS.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago

*Was an optional feature...

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

That's not up to you, or any of us.
Not maintaining non-js version makes sense for the business, considering how few people are affected.

All we can do is move away to something better.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Thank you for deciding what was better for us, we would have been so wrong without you. /s

[-] Flipper@feddit.org 25 points 10 hours ago

For full functionality sure. For basic functionality no. Searching on Google is basic functionality I'd say.

[-] unrelatedkeg 5 points 9 hours ago

Not really. Showing ads and gobbling up data is Google Search's core functionality, and JS is indispensible for that.

[-] Skates@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Idk if you were around when Google popped up, but it was at a time where the internet was feeling increasingly "loaded" with thousands of info per page. One where the popular engines tried to serve you twenty different things along with your search. Here's an example:

https://www.definitions-seo.com/images/altavista-3.jpg

Or another:

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/uploaded/timeline/yahoo/yahoo-2003.png

This isn't a search engine. This is an all you can eat buffet, where the smallest plate is two main courses and three sides. And users just wanted a candy bar.

So you see, a lot of us started to use Google because it was simple. It was decluttered. It was a text input with a 'submit' button, and that's all we wanted. THAT is, and was, google's core functionality, and I think it'd do them well to remember that.

Now, if you wanna argue that's changed, I can agree to that. But I don't want morning news when I search for porn, that's just gonna kill my boner. And I don't want ads about coffee makers when I've just bought a coffee maker, that just means you're incompetent. I want a search engine that searches things and provides results. That's it. And just like Google caught momentum because they delivered this minimalistic facade that the users wanted, this is also how Google will die - at the hands of the next lightweight engine without corporate bullshit. Because the users will gobble it up.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

You should still be able to use something like Lynx to browse and search. There's no reason to block basic functionality except that you can and don't care.

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