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Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Post by sapht »

skinkestek wrote: post #17

I'm on mobile. It loads quick. I saw no ads. It was reasonable straight to the point: no explanation about this being grandmothers pie recipe or anything to that effect. (In fact, if you consider the point of the website to be funny it is actually straight to the point.) If it is fast, doesn't track me and provides the answers I need I can put up with some animations. I'd say what we have today is far more problemati…

The only thing worse about this than whichever 2020-era website was the "Right click is disabled!" as I tried to leave. (That made me chuckle). The other stuff is just nostalgia and not really related to the degradation of web UX. Irrelevant gifs and ugly colors are easier to ignore than 1000-page cookie dialogs.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Post by liftm »

onion2k wrote: post #33
skinkestek wrote: post #17

I'm on mobile. It loads quick. I saw no ads. It was reasonable straight to the point: no explanation about this being grandmothers pie recipe or anything to that effect. (In fact, if you consider the point of the website to be funny it is actually straight to the point.) If it is fast, doesn't track me and provides the answers I need I can put up with some animations. I'd say what we have today is far more problemati…

I loaded it on mobile too.. - Horizontal scrolling because it isn't properly responsive. - it doesn't reflow when the device orientation changes - no sound (there's an audio control so I guess there's meant to be..) - the audio control sits over the flags - wildly different text sizes everywhere - so much layout shift - from an error loading the Korean version I think it's running on a platform that tracks what users…

> - Horizontal scrolling because it isn't properly responsive.

It actually is properly responsive: it has horizontal scrolling on desktop too, and by just the exact amount, no matter what the window size is. (At least on FF.)

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Post by ahmed_ds »

The good ol' days. When people had limited resources, infinite imagination and they made compromises in there design choices. Now we have infinite resources but we have design and standards and guidelines and boxes and structures and grids and SEO and accessibility....

I think if you are building things on the daily we have to go through a resource limitation sabbatical.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Post by just-tom »

It's easy to make this kind of one pager, when you don't need to include complex user flows. No registration, no account, no search, no products, no modal, no navigation, not even a form. There's literally just text, images and one embedded HTML5 audio component. When you do, design tends to be attracted to the conventional side.

However, I do miss the concept of websites taking the lighter approach, not trying to imitate enterprise design by fully optimizing every part of the website, and just thinking what's fun.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Post by ambericanonion »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #10
unnouinceput wrote: post #3

My eyes hurt. No thank you.

Wait until you see this: https://www.lingscars.com/

This is one of my favorite sites from a design pov. Oddly enough i initially found it by searching for 'the worst sites on the internet'. In an earlier incarnation it also handled sales and had individual listings in the same style. Awesome stuff whoever you are.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga »

brettermeier wrote: post #114
exitb wrote: post #40

The website makes bold claim of being best viewed in Netscape 3. That does not seem to be the case though https://i.imgur.com/WKpmd28.png

The whole website is nothing but nostalgia bullsh*t :D

I don't believe it was done by a nostalgic person - rather someone who wasn't really there at the time and just wants to mock it. The things that were great then have nothing to do with the ones presented on that page.
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