A website to destroy all websites

I agree. I remember when you could read pages without requiring JavaScript enabled, and when enabled it was enabled it wouldn't cause things to constantly float about as you scroll.

One of the biggest reasons you'll never get the "old web" back, is because the culture of the "independent" world wide web morphed into something entirely different from what it was (or more aptly was outright replaced with general "weirdos" rather than model train hobbyists and the like[1]). Ironically all of the people complaining about "capitalism and corporations killing the internet" as they scroll their federated social media feeds and start their "indie" initiatives[2] don't realize that they are part of the problem.

[1] https://www.girr.org/girr/

[2] https://indieweb.org/

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by keepamovin » Thu, Jan 01, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

sandeepkd wrote: post #6

Not sure if its by design/intent, the font is too small to skim through it

Do you feel destroyed tho?

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by thih9 » Thu, Jan 01, 2026, 9:30 PM UTC

pwg wrote: post #2

And it fails to render anything with Javascript disabled.

It gets a pass from me. The JS content didn’t annoy me, e.g. it didn’t show me any off topic popups, so I didn’t feel the need to disable JS.

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by abetusk » Thu, Jan 01, 2026, 9:34 PM UTC

From what I can tell, their solution is to personalize the web by creating personal websites. Here are the 5 steps at the end that they list to construct a personal website:

1. Start small

2. Reduce friction to publishing

3. Don't worry about design

4. Use the IndieWeb

5. Join us in sharing what you've made