The unbearable sameness of the modern web
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The unbearable sameness of the modern web
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#2It also got... isolated. I was going to leave a comment, but couldn't, as there was no where to leave it.
Bring back failed attempts to be the next CSS Picasso, but also bring back a social web. Offloading comments to social networks hinders discovery of networks.
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#3It also got... isolated. I was going to leave a comment, but couldn't, as there was no where to leave it. Bring back failed attempts to be the next CSS Picasso, but also bring back a social web. Offloading comments to social networks hinders discovery of networks.
I understand your sentiments about comments but as someone who have been on the receiving end there are two fights that I don't want to deal with;
1. SPAM. They will find a way to do it. Not even automated, employed cheap labor just spamming blog comments.
2. The extreme hatred and scorn from people who spew venom from behind their anonymous screen names.
Not just me as a person but my family had been threatened (on my blog comments). Not worth the effort, I have done away with the thousands of comments my blog had collected since 2001. A lot of them were nostalgic, sweet, and many a friends, colleagues, co-founders, and girlfriends were the result of comments on my blog but now -- NOT worth my time.
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#4one reason I love tailwind. literally design swapping classes until it looks decent.
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#5It also got... isolated. I was going to leave a comment, but couldn't, as there was no where to leave it. Bring back failed attempts to be the next CSS Picasso, but also bring back a social web. Offloading comments to social networks hinders discovery of networks.
The early web had so much more diversity than the current web, and with far fewer walled gardens.
Try browsing the modern web in an incognito window and see how far you get before you are asked to login and then forced to login to read more. The big social networks force you to not only login to read stuff, they also strongly push you towards the mobile app because there's so much more data they can harvest from your phone.
Oh, and the ads. In the late 90s we had to contend with popup ads and animated gif banners but the modern web without an ad blocker is much worse. I'm not against ads, but why do 95% of them have to be so scummy?
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#6If you think the web is boring now it's because you stopped surfing the web, not because people stopped making exciting and innovative websites. That isn't meant as a criticism; people's priorities change and we do different stuff. I still find the web wildly exciting after 30 years of using it because I still seek out interesting things on it...
Tell me this looks like every other website: https://www.anumberfromtheghost.com/asleep-in-trees
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#7I love the message of this article. Honestly, little weird blog sites are the best and usually a great read too.
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#8It's like complaining why books has roughly all the same shape when paper allows so many formats and creativity. It's clear, it's because uniformity can optimize costs and people is more interested in content and not on the container.
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#9It also got... isolated. I was going to leave a comment, but couldn't, as there was no where to leave it. Bring back failed attempts to be the next CSS Picasso, but also bring back a social web. Offloading comments to social networks hinders discovery of networks.
I understand your sentiments about comments but as someone who have been on the receiving end there are two fights that I don't want to deal with; 1. SPAM. They will find a way to do it. Not even automated, employed cheap labor just spamming blog comments. 2. The extreme hatred and scorn from people who spew venom from behind their anonymous screen names. Not just me as a person but my family had been threatened (on…
Fully agree. A company I work with used to receive about 1 SPAM message per hour. They kind of outcrowded any actual customer request in the INBOX. And to me, most of them looked like they were hand-written by people with English as a 2nd language. We tried a lot of CAPTCH providers and similar things, but that didn't help. It wasn't automated robot SPAM.
What did move the needle, in the end, was blocking all IPs from India. A bit heavy-handed, maybe, but it was a small company with only local customers anyway.
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#10It also got... isolated. I was going to leave a comment, but couldn't, as there was no where to leave it. Bring back failed attempts to be the next CSS Picasso, but also bring back a social web. Offloading comments to social networks hinders discovery of networks.
I understand your sentiments about comments but as someone who have been on the receiving end there are two fights that I don't want to deal with; 1. SPAM. They will find a way to do it. Not even automated, employed cheap labor just spamming blog comments. 2. The extreme hatred and scorn from people who spew venom from behind their anonymous screen names. Not just me as a person but my family had been threatened (on…
Then why blog? Comments are what distinguish a blog from an online magazine.