Kids these days will never experience every web page looking like this.
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Kids these days are making neocities pages again
neocities is where it's at.
I love that. The enthusiasm of someone who can write 15 pages about penguin migration or medieval catapults is infectious.
I saw one quite recently, I think it was from a client but I'm not 100% sure if it was not randomly
No one seems to know exactly what "modern" means when it comes to "modern design". If you ask ten different developers, you get 11 different answers.
My rule of thumb when I see "modern design" touted as a feature is that the developer chose form over function at every turn.
That is a good definition. As an ex-website designer, I hate the new formats with their bloated flow and flashy appearance while the content is everywhere. Give me some tables and preloaded image sizes so the page loads fast and stops jumping all over the place.
And they all look the same. Maybe because everyone just grabs the same template and there aren't any out there actually trying new looks.
As a current web developer I'm with you except for the tables. I hate tables with a burning, fiery passion.
I do like responsive design to account for mobile, tablet, and desktop so I try to blend that with classic "just works / just here for the data" layouts and generally minimize the flash in favor of the content. In other words, my projects go to a lot of work to look that simple lol.
I know, divs are better, and I did use them once they came about. But tables were what you used back in the beginning, had to.
I appreciate responsive design, there's some brilliant things out there. And I got out just as the whole smart phone thing started, and THAT was a nightmare that made the browser wars simple by comparison.
I remember tables, if you made the webpages in Publisher it would be tables all the way. I tought it was quite the thing back then, I guess 20-25 years ago?
YES! THANK YOU! I fucking hate these new website that look like they cost a million dollars to design, but they don't function for crap, it's hard to find the information I need, it jumps around while different "features" load, and keeps doing unexpected things while I scroll or hover over stuff.
Give me a nice, clear side bar with submenus that make it easy to find what I'm looking for, and pages that load quickly and behave statically until I click on something.
Fuck this emphasis on "modern" design. That's just a bunch of self-fellating rich people getting off on marketing and sales pitches while ignoring user experience...
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"Modern design" somehow seems to mean "flat gray, bland logos, and simple block letters" to an unfortunate proportion of the marketing/design industry.
Like why do so many companies spend millions on rebranding to these dull husks of what they were? Do they think that's going to convince people to spend more money there?
No one thinks "Oh look, Qdoba's logo is much simpler and modern! I should eat there more often." If anything it alienates the loyal customer base, like you see with the cracker barrel blowback (not that cracker barrel customers are worth their loyalty, but I digress).
Billionaire shareholders and C-suite corpos are so out-of-touch it's not even funny...
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I also blame search engines. I type like "python file open parameters" and I really just want the official docs. They're not even on the first page of DDG.
6 Reddit threads, a bunch of YouTube videos of people with shocked faces (why are they surprised?), an AI summary that may discuss something related to your query or may talk about ways to get a snake to open its mouth, several articles, pretty much anything except the reference manual.
I think the next underground social network should be called “car insurance.”
Nobody would ever find it through a search engine.
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On my free trial of kagi the official docs are the very first result without any lenses or settings. I will be buying subscription soon because while not always but sometimes the results are better by a long shot over ddg and google for me.
I've heard good things about kagi, but $10/mo is pretty steep
In the meantime i can recommend metager to you, much cheaper (i charged my account at creation with 10€, i've used 3,80€ currently after a few months of usage). You can configure how many tokens your search will use, if you want search suggestions for a fraction of a search and so on. i'm very happy with it and will stay with it, it's very cost efficient.
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Trust me, I thought the same, but its honestly almost life changing. Takes me right back to 2008 internet where I could find the shit I wanted. Very little seo and slop.
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Either mullvad DNS or nextdns.
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If you have a subscription to Windscribe, addy.io, or one of Kagi's specials, you can get 3 months for free.
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Yesterday, one of our new devs was struggling to get the page count of a word file in Python. I asked if he could just use an index from one of the existing libraries we're using. He proceeded to search it on Bing and then waited for Copilot to generate slopcode at the top of the page. Shocked in horror, I asked, "Are you sure these are real functions?" He responded, I'm sure I can just copy and paste what I need. FML
Here you go: https://kagi.com/smallweb/
A curated list of small sites and blogs
Cloudhiker.net is another Stumbleupon clone. also Ye Olde Blogroll for finding indie blogs (blogroll.org)
Micro.blog and bearblog.dev both have great communities too, if you’re into blogging.
and finally: check out neocities, it’s like geocities but still alive
my website is very basic (just a simple static website with text and sometimes images) - but at least i have a handmade 88x31 button :3
I love me a good 88x31 button, well done
We love Neocities! :3
TELL ME YOUR FIVE FAVOURITE GREENDAY SONGS
This person would love to spend an afternoon on neocities and see what people are still creating
Not necessarily. Thisishamas dot com was IDF created, run, and promoted. 4chan was also an Epstein creation. bash dot org was also an IDF site. As internet advanced as Israel is, they create some horribly designed and looking websites. Though it may just be to throw the scent off and to make it look like it was made by some amateurs and not them.
Is there any evidence for bash.org? I don't see how hosting it would help the IDF besides maybe getting site visits
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I never liked web 3.0 for the most part. Bloated trash. I'll take pure HTML any day.
I feel safer when I see IFrames and text and blue (sometimes purple) links than I do when everything's shiny and slidey and has an alpha of less than 255.
We need lines and boxes to not get lost. Structure it is
Bring back the blinking text and MIDI music honestly.
Reading blogs on bearblog.dev is an amazing experience. No algorithms, no discourse, no AI slop (I mean, hopefully 😬) and a majorly decreased amount of depressing world news.
I was just talking about this today with my wife's family. We bought a whole house water filter from water filters of america and part of the reason we trusted them was their website. It looks like it is straight out of the early 2000s. We figured if they were scummy then they would put more effort into there site.
I miss those silly Blogspot blogs with long-ass lists of friendly blogs. I used to add them all to my google reader and just get lost in its variety. Then tumblr came along and it partially took over the image part but after the porn ban debacle it wasn't the same and there are not so many wacky blogs left out there.
Drop your best under construction gifs, so I can put them onto my neocities page!
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