Great idea a lot of military communication is still like this. I think efficiency and clarity.
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
#521st second of my 1st visit:
ls
→ 'ls': command not found. use 'help' to list available commands!
Anyway, fun UI. I was a little less impressed by the 'projects' page, I would have loved being able to visit the projects.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#53I'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…
The front page of our early phreaking zine was an interactive cellphone- a certain famous model of Motorola- that you had to navigate to enter.
It was a great filter against people who wouldn't have understood the content. If you knew how this model worked, there were a lot of easter eggs, and we received a lot of great feedback to make it more fun and rewarding.
Being told that it would "frustrate users" would have elicited a friendly "Not ours :)".
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#54It won't let me pick up the axe.
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#55Just FYI, it’s not mobile friendly.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#56Very nice, but if you want to use it professionally you should consider having an alternative "clear text" version for recruiters and the like. The technically minded will find it nice but most people won't know what to do or what any of this means. And you could consider adding `ls`, `cd` and `exit` just for fun -- it was the first thing I've tried.
Good point, another solution might be something similar to https://ysap.sh/ which gives you a nice "page" formatted for the terminal when curl'ed and your usual HTML and CSS on the browser.
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#57reminds me of my own personal website at http://jrwr.sdf.org
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#58Ironically, it doesn't work on a text-only browser. All you get in ELinks is:
Link: preload
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#59Very cool! Note: This doesn't work with Vimium installed, since only certain keystrokes make it through to the page. I think the input would need to be an input field in order for that to work.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#60Ironically, it doesn't work on a text-only browser. All you get in ELinks is: Link: preload Link: preload
Black screen in Lynx for me as well (: