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one reason I love CSS. literally design swapping properties until it looks decent.
Hey, where did my div go?!
Straight into the soup
The unbearable sameness of the modern web
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Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#32If 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.anumberfromthe…
That website is fantastic. Cutting edge expression, difficult, well realised. I wish that were what modern art is.
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#33If 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.anumberfromthe…
Umm, it reminds me of all the websites when VRML was a hip fad in the 90s (but obviously higher resolution/better). But still, this misses the authors point - that mainstream websites have become homogenous. Obviously its not about literally every last website, but bemoaning what is currently trendy.
I did some VRML at uni. We thought it was the future :)
Having said that, I think what you're saying is some very superficial pattern-matching. I found it a fantastic experience, and I'm not a particularly arty person.
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#34If 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.anumberfromthe…
I mean, no, that's hardly a website. It's as much a website as example.com/demoscene.exe. Nobody ever stopped making art and video games, it's just that they don't run in the browser.
If you call it a website, then Unity is a web authoring tool.
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#35one reason I love tailwind. literally design swapping classes until it looks decent.
one reason I love CSS. literally design swapping properties until it looks decent.
fair enough, not a comment with substance, but point was anything that doesn't lock you into components is a good thing. plain css is great. off the shelf ui components are boring.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Umm, it reminds me of all the websites when VRML was a hip fad in the 90s (but obviously higher resolution/better). But still, this misses the authors point - that mainstream websites have become homogenous. Obviously its not about literally every last website, but bemoaning what is currently trendy.
Umm, it reminds me of all the websites when VRML was a hip fad in the 90s (but obviously higher resolution/better). I made a few experimental VRML websites in the late 90s (on a lovely SGI Irix..) and I can see why you'd say that, but it's only superficially similar in the 3D-in-a-browser sense. VRML experiences were usually terrible and never pretty.
It's the same idea updated with extra cycles.
It is pretty, and there are some nice aesthetic touches. But the overall look is still very blocky and VRML-ish.
I guess at some point we'll get photorealistic rendering - most likely in AR glasses rather than in the browser - and there will be a lot more experimentation for a while, some of it driven by AI.
But even this is in a tiny niche far, far outside the web mainstream, and if it hadn't been linked here hardly anyone would find it.
I remember the exact moment in the mid-90s when I realised the suits were moving in and the web was going to be transformed from a weird, colourful, mad eccentric thing into a generic mall.
From a corporate POV it has far exceeded my worst nightmares. Sites like this are a very small pushback, but they're not going to make a dent in the overall crapification and hustle-driven corporatisation of our biggest and most interesting planetary cultural resource.
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#38It'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.
Yeah I'm guilty of having a boring website, but it allows for easy readability without my having to spend weeks trying to balance out artiness and accessibility.
came here to say this. everyone blames google and social media which is true but the other major part of it is form vs function. Most of the time the arty sites prioritise the former over the latter and they become annoying to use for anything more than a few minutes
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#39Leave the mouse and scroll events alone
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#40If 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.anumberfromthe…
What a great experience!