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Hey, where did my div go?!
Straight into the soup
Float positioning was too responsive.
The unbearable sameness of the modern web
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Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
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Yeah I miss the old days where on most sites you really needed to be a hard-core troll or do/say something illegal to get banned and removed. Now on for example Reddit if you say anything that's not acceptable in the current zeitgeist it's instant (shadow)banning. It all became so corporate and milquetoast - all that matters are ads and so that they don't appear near "controversial" content to not to loose revenue.
On top of that, only the reiteration of the same trite puns or catchphrases gets upvotes, the rest drowns. /r/homelab was interesting, now it's just pictures of people's setups /r/garmin was interesting, now it's screenshots of people's VO2max stats etc... Repeat ad nauseam. Everything is bragging or showing off for fake internet points.
The nick mullen rant about the yeti cup subreddit is good for a laugh.
I don't know what is driving it but I think those posters really feel they're part of a community. The give gold, repeat the same tired jokes, and feel better. It's insane to me.
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#43The irony when the homepage of said site has broken markdown links everywhere...
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I miss the old days where on most sites you really needed to be a hard-core troll or do/say something illegal to get banned and removed. Now on for example Reddit if you say anything that's not acceptable in the current zeitgeist it's instant (shadow)banning. It all became so corporate and milquetoast - all that matters are ads and so that they don't appear near "controversial" content to not to loose revenue.
It's much worse than that. The people doing the banning on reddit aren't doing it because they are paid or told to, they are doing it because they think stopping wrongthink is a public service and will feel right doing it every time. HN isn't much better with flagging of posts. The highwater mark of this was PG's heresy post being kept off the front page for 6 hours before dang made the post unflaggable. I would have…
I've seen that for many of those people it's not a matter of being right or wrong but a moral battle of good vs. evil. Heretics are to be purged, not discussed with.
Being honest I think religion is kinda hard-wired into the human brain and if it isn't the mystique kind like with Jesus or Allah then it (d)evolves into this kind of agno-atheistic fanaticism where some flavor of the year "problem" appears that these people obsess with. And this is coming from a long time atheist btw.
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#45If 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.
It actually is a pretty decent website. If you look at the main page [1] instead, it's a gallery to navigate to the subpages. Conceptually not too different than browsing a traditional 2d webpage.
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#46I might be going against the narrative, but I enjoy the same-y web.
I like having the same design philosophy and navigation on wildly different websites. I like knowing exactly where to find information at a glance because things have been put in roughly the same way across multiple information sources. I don't like to scour through the asinine design decisions of some guy with a handcrafted HTML website that "represents his personality".
Sure, if you browse the web for the "human aspect" or for entertainment, having quirky website sure is fun and interesting. But the moment you need the web to actually search for stuff in the most efficient way possible the façade of the early web quickly shows its true colors.
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#47If 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.
As a virtual 3D space it is much more of a web "site" than a collection of "pages" is a "site".
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
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On top of that, only the reiteration of the same trite puns or catchphrases gets upvotes, the rest drowns. /r/homelab was interesting, now it's just pictures of people's setups /r/garmin was interesting, now it's screenshots of people's VO2max stats etc... Repeat ad nauseam. Everything is bragging or showing off for fake internet points.
The nick mullen rant about the yeti cup subreddit is good for a laugh. I don't know what is driving it but I think those posters really feel they're part of a community. The give gold, repeat the same tired jokes, and feel better. It's insane to me.
I'm going to let you in on a secret: it isn't a real community. It is Yeti astroturfing. ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#49If 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…
Don't know about the whole fuddy duddy discussion goin on here but let me just say that website is trippy as balls. And I enjoyed it immensely. Thank you very much for posting it, seriously inspired me.
The fellow who made it recommends: https://threejs-journey.com
I know what I am doing this weekend. Cheers.
Re: The unbearable sameness of the modern web
#50Most front end devs I manage don't like pre built components and want to roll their own. They might quibble over the behavior or style and feel the itch to change it.
This is also a terrible waste of resources to rebuild the wheel over and over. A few components, sure, when there is a compelling case for custom. But you do the business a disservice by consuming so much time on items just because you want to.
I also find it incredibly demoralizing trying to advance a project and the bug log is full of bugs about basic component behavior you would just get out of the box with a pre built set.
The most likely alternative to boring, functional, and WORKING, is BROKEN and dysfunctional. Please don't break navigation. Have predictable menu behavior. Etc... There are other ways to be creative.