This one reason I don't read blog articles in an RSS feed. I aggregate them with one, but follow links to the blog owner's site so that I'm reading their content as they designed it.
Show HN: A Handcrafted Web
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#32So, basically, "web publishing is broken because you have to do it on someone else's terms". And then you say "use our stuff instead".
This was my initial reaction as well. Actually, as I find myself scrolling down the page, I thought the ideas were compelling. It was like this: [Facebook part ] Hmm… ok… [GO SLOWER ] Yeah! |----- .... ---- | YEAh! |.. ..... ------- .| YEAH! [Make it meaningful] Yeah! |.. ..... ---- .. .| YEAH! [Join ] Wait… what? Join… your app? I thought this was about hand-crafting. This is just another ad for a service that will…
these are the ideas behind scroll kit and i'm glad you agree with them. but we'd be some pretty shitty hackers if we just talked about them and weren't trying to actually DO something to change things.
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#33This team page reminds me of geocities from the late 90s. https://www.scrollkit.com/s/iaJos01
I think in 5 years we'll look back and see this as web design's "VonDutch hat" moment.
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#34It's a very nice idea, I would love to see more creativity in the web, but I don't think I agree with the implementation or what I see as the user base. Every blog page is not just a template, it's someone's vision of the world. It's an identity and a brand that the blogger tries to create and extend to its users. Using this new style the blogger would completely lose any form of identity and become more of a sparkling instagram knockoff than a medium to share rich content to its user base.
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#35Edit Room inspired? Be honest... http://www.edit-room.com Also template-free blank canvas web design, a little more professional maybe?
This sounds pretty biased and accusatory coming from the entity who created said product.
Originality is a rare occurrence these days. Why are you so surprised to find something similar to what you've built?
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#36Blame the move toward blogging systems that separated content from presentation. Blame advertising which has to be front-and-center at all times. I wonder how advertising would work on the web if you didn't have omni-present ads but instead sometimes the viewport contained no ads, sometimes it contains big huge ads that take up the entire viewport (like a full-page ad in a magazine). Would that make up for them not b…
Your idea sounds similar to some websites that show a full page banner with an x in the corner before visiting a certain page.
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#37Yeah. One thing scroll kit does really well is allows the screen to be filled with a single idea/image/composition. I haven't seen a lot of sites experiment with serving ads that way though.
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#38Yeah. One thing scroll kit does really well is allows the screen to be filled with a single idea/image/composition. I haven't seen a lot of sites experiment with serving ads that way though.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was my initial reaction as well. Actually, as I find myself scrolling down the page, I thought the ideas were compelling. It was like this: [Facebook part ] Hmm… ok… [GO SLOWER ] Yeah! |----- .... ---- | YEAh! |.. ..... ------- .| YEAH! [Make it meaningful] Yeah! |.. ..... ---- .. .| YEAH! [Join ] Wait… what? Join… your app? I thought this was about hand-crafting. This is just another ad for a service that will…
these are the ideas behind scroll kit and i'm glad you agree with them. but we'd be some pretty shitty hackers if we just talked about them and weren't trying to actually DO something to change things.
How does having a "Join" form make somebody a better "hacker"?
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#40I really like what ReadyMag http://readymag.com is proposing in this area.
Wow, this is kind of wonderful. It somehow does "vibrant yet professional" really well, in contrast with the "genuine amateur" feel of scrollkit. They have one hell of a designer, that's for sure. Seems like they're proposing a Photoshop/Flash-like rich-app design interface for webpages? I'd like to play around with the app but the Team slide is causing my browser to hang.
Shame, their team page is brilliant. You can so clearly tell who the designers vs. coders are by their shoes.
Definitely hipster enough, but with a more professional European style than the NYU-Hipster Runoff style of ScrollKit. I personally prefer Readymag actually.