Why do you use this site?

I love it when people say that the UI is awful. It's a sign the UI is doing its job. It's the best gatekeeper there is. It isn't too high of a bar to clear, but people that can't clear it seem to have different values. So in a sense the UI is doing part of the moderation.

One value I have is: it's all about information and curiosity. People that need an aesthetically pleasing UI seem to not share this value enough.

This is how a website should look. It provides information. As others have said, it has a clean, customizable look, and (imo) content that you won’t find anywhere else.

The brilliance is the simplicity. You don’t get ads every other article. You get information.

Look at a ‘man’ page. It delivers information in an easy to read, text format.

We have had so much CSS, JS, pop-ups, pop-unders, and invasive click-tracking shoved down our collective throats that “surfing” the web is not an enjoyable experience anymore. It’s a damn chore.

There is an undercurrent of simplicity in the design of web-pages that I personally am starting to more often. If you look at links posted here by highly technical people or *nix power users, it’s a bare-bones blog or site.

For example: https://plaintextproject.online/index.html