So this is basically Sakura [1] copy and pasted. I know, because it looks exactly like my website, and that's how I did it.
Perfect Motherfucking Website
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#92The overly curse happy programmer speak is so very stale. I'm not offended or anything but it's just not that great. It doesn't make the content more interesting. It doesn't make the author seem any cooler. It's just meh. It reminds me of Epic Meal Time; a facade of coolness based on cursing, alcohol and over the top food. I love that instead of this style we're getting a new generation of programmers who are genuine…
> The overly curse happy programmer speak is so very stale.
Today, yes, but the site isn't new either.
> It doesn't make the content more interesting. It doesn't make the author seem any cooler.
I don't think the point was either of those things. It's meant to express outrage at the overcomplication of websites with the excessive use of javascript, the needing to download megabytes of JS to render some text, etc.
Here's the context from the original:
> You think your 13 megabyte parallax-ative home page is going to get you some fucking Awwward banner you can glue to the top corner of your site. You think your 40-pound jQuery file and 83 polyfills give IE7 a boner because it finally has box-shadow.
Being outraged at the state of the web has been lessening in popularity, I think. That's possibly because CSS has improved a lot and IE is finally obsolete.
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#93Was Zed Shaw involved in this website or its predecessor?
Zed Shaw did the original, if I recall correctly.
edit: nope! @thebarrytone did the original, the curious can find the author in the source.
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#94From " http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ " which is one up the chain: > A little less contrast WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. To give this person credit they have at least chosen some sensible values, rather than gone with something that was just about enough on an expensive graphic designer high-contrast monitor and then not tested it on anything else. Leaving the rest of us squinting to try and read text or manua…
https://contrastrebellion.com/
More high-contrast options exist then Black foreground on a White background.
I'm not disagreeing with your point, I loathe grey on grey sites. Being visually impaired nothing makes me rage-quit your site quicker if my DarkReader extension can't unfuck a site.
I'm posting https://contrastrebellion.com/ so all the replies and followup conversations can see it too.
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#95> And did you let the browser choose the font? Don’t make me read such text with Times New Roman. I don't understand this attitude. If you don't like Times New Roman, why don't you change your browser's default font? What I don't like is when websites tell my browser to use a different font or different colors than the ones I configured. (Off-topic, but something that really annoys me is websites that make text in ve…
You have my full agreement. Disallowing website-chosen fonts (or enforcing minimum font size) can break some things slightly, but is worth it in my eyes. But with colors, there are way too many sites blindly assuming a black-on-white browser stylesheet not just for textarea, but for the entire website, making everything unreadable. And you can't win there: Turning of color overriding entirely makes for a calmer, more unified experience, but utterly breaks the usability of a number of interfaces (not the fault of the website).
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#96How much longer until we see one of these that imports 100mb of Javascript to make a responsive, reactive, server-rendered SPA. Saying things like "Just npx create-react-app fucker, it gives a better fucking user experience out of the box than your shit fucking browser does" and still claims to somehow be satire?
That sounds like it would be satire to me.
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#97I want to hecking scream. The point of the original website in this chain was not that you couldn't do media queries, or that all of your designs had to be unstyled. It was a gosh-darned satire that showed that even if you did literally nothing , your website would still be responsive and readable and load fast. The fact that it did nothing, that it was just a completely unstyled HTML page was the reason that the jok…
If someone's attempt at a joke and the open discussion of web design gets you that upset, you might benefit from an extended break from the internet. Unless you get angry at clouds.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serifs can be a good thing for readability! I don’t know that the creator’s choice to force sans-serif was ideal here.
When I was taught design in the early oughts they said serif for print and sans for screens. I think it had to do with rendering at lower resolutions and small screen sizes.
Indeed, if you've ever had the chance to compare serifs on a 96dpi and a 170dpi monitor, or even 300dpi, it's absolutely incredible. At those resolutions serifs are absolutely awesome - but I'll never use them at lower resolutions again.
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#99From " http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ " which is one up the chain: > A little less contrast WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. To give this person credit they have at least chosen some sensible values, rather than gone with something that was just about enough on an expensive graphic designer high-contrast monitor and then not tested it on anything else. Leaving the rest of us squinting to try and read text or manua…
From what I can tell, this is due to designers cargo culting low contrast UIs. Whenever I've asked designers for citations that grey-on-gray UIs are better than black/white or white/black, I haven't gotten any good responses beyond some subjective answers. It's considered "general knowledge" but I haven't found hard data supporting it.
There are good reasons to avoid bright white backgrounds in certain cases since it can be hard to read in dark environments as your eyes switch between the bright screen and dark world. But in this case, pure white on pure black is still the best option for contrast. And the correct solution is to dim the backlight of the display to reduce brightness.
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#100From " http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ " which is one up the chain: > A little less contrast WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. To give this person credit they have at least chosen some sensible values, rather than gone with something that was just about enough on an expensive graphic designer high-contrast monitor and then not tested it on anything else. Leaving the rest of us squinting to try and read text or manua…
> WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. To give this person credit they have at least chosen some sensible values,
Dunno what the science says, but I really hate #000 on #fff, or vice-versa.
Yes, a lot of websites now go to the opposite extreme, but the reaction should simply be: so DON'T GO TO EXTREMES! Neither too much nor too little contrast are good.
And since you've pointed out they do go for sensible values here, why the outraged all caps???