No ls and no cd?
Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
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Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#12I'm going to represent the critical opinion and say: this is cute and I like the idea in theory, but if I encountered this in the wild, I would just leave the page. I explore most informational websites with a mouse or a touchscreen - I don't want to type to navigate your website!
A middleground might be to make the commands clickable, so that clicking on "help" automatically inserts and runs it, and clicking on any of the commands in "help" does the same. You would still frustrate users who would have to keep scrolling up to reach the navigation, but it would make it usable without a keyboard.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#13now do telnet
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#14I'm going to represent the critical opinion and say: this is cute and I like the idea in theory, but if I encountered this in the wild, I would just leave the page. I explore most informational websites with a mouse or a touchscreen - I don't want to type to navigate your website! A middleground might be to make the commands clickable, so that clicking on "help" automatically inserts and runs it, and clicking on any…
It's a cool looking site, but these terminal style sites (seen a few of them from web developers and software types) look terrible on phones and tablets (keyboard constantly present), which is well over 60% of web traffic now.
You have to keep in mind your audience. If you presume everybody visiting this site is software-inclined, it's fine. I know a lot of less tech-literate users who would leave something like this straight away thinking they're being hacked or something daft.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#15Looks nice, but feels like it's not complete. No tab completion. The font styles are not terminal like. Looks weird with those headers. Would be also great to be able to click stuff. In my opinion this needs improvement in either way. Otherwise feels half-baked, you didn't go full terminal way at the same time did not give an easy way to navigate.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#16Add a pager like `less` (e.g. `$ projects | less`). And `exit` should close the page.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#17It looks pretty good on my laptop, though the font doesn't quite look like a terminal's (especially the bold), but overall it's still pretty nice.
It would be even better if some simple commands (like the most basic grep, less) could be added.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#18No ls and no cd?
No matter what I'm doing in a terminal as soon as it opens I use ls. I always get so disappointed when these sites don't have it (none ever do). Please let me do terminal things in a terminal.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#19If you want to flex as a traditionalist, you might want to consider adopting the https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ aesthetic instead of the terminal one. The former remains browsable, whereas a terminal interface, however cute, creates enough UI friction to drive casual readers away.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#20I like it. It felt personal and non-intrusive.