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You are correct - this is an attempt to appear fresh. But it is no excuse. It’s still an anti-user dark pattern.
Fully agree. Also you can appear fresh regardless _if you are actually fresh_, simply by adding an review/update date.
Most web pages are not hand crafted page by page, they're part of a CMS with a million other capabilities. Or, the team creating the website was under cost pressure and went for some performance-compromised "good enough" solution. Or, the website is old (true for almost all of them) and no longer under serious active maintenance.
It's not just incompetence leading to technical bloat.
The same is true for some of the "dark patterns" like auto-playing videos and pop-ups. We should stop with the narrative that this is due to publication truly hating users or being completely tone-deaf. It's purposefully done because it works. It serves marketing and monetary goals.
Yes, this comes at the expense of usability. You should see it as an act of desperation that is existential. It keeps the lights on. The terrible state of web usability is due to it not having any reliable business model other than the current status quo.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the author created https://justsketch.me/ , which sponsors http://reference.sketchdaily.net/ I found these to be great resources for drawing exercises.
Lol the irony of this. Very slow TTFB from Australia.. over 1 second The blog is already behind Cloudflare, and this page is static content, why don't you just add a rule to cache the page?
"Text is small" so a website should be extremely light in resources is a really simplistic way to go about things. Most web pages are not hand crafted page by page, they're part of a CMS with a million other capabilities. Or, the team creating the website was under cost pressure and went for some performance-compromised "good enough" solution. Or, the website is old (true for almost all of them) and no longer under s…
> Most web pages are not hand crafted page by page,
> they're part of a CMS with a million other capabilities
And they have to have a publish date. (You wouldn't believe the number of blog posts that do not have one)
It's a vicious circle and I don't know if it's possible to escape at this point by any means other than inventing a better search algorithm and convincing a large number of people to use it.
every website should load fast. If they should be clean is something that's too subjective IMO.
I'm fully aware I'm a rather mediocre frontend developer so my opinion on the matter has very little value, but on the other hand I have this feeling that HTML, CSS and JS on the hindsight were probably some of the least suitable technological choices for what the current usage of the web actually needs to achieve this objective.
"Text is small" so a website should be extremely light in resources is a really simplistic way to go about things. Most web pages are not hand crafted page by page, they're part of a CMS with a million other capabilities. Or, the team creating the website was under cost pressure and went for some performance-compromised "good enough" solution. Or, the website is old (true for almost all of them) and no longer under s…
> Most web pages are not hand crafted page by page, > they're part of a CMS with a million other capabilities Why should it matter? By this token a car should weight about as much as the a factory that made it.