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Re: Miss the old web? Join us haywood.computer

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Post by a34729t » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:37 AM UTC

NackerHughes wrote: post #2

I click. I see an anime girlie bot challenge screen. I hear zoomer pop in ~32k 16-bit stereo. I see JavaScript animations and a seizure-inducing vibecoded layout. I close the tab. "Miss the old web?" The author wasn't even born then.

Anubis is awesome, but yeah everything else... gtfo

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Post by gnoll_of_gozag » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:18 AM UTC

try as hard as you can, you can't hide the claude style of frontend. get out, poser

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Post by fzorb » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 7:31 AM UTC

This is literally everything terrible about web design in $CURRENT_YEAR.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

grdjjhgggg wrote: post #9

Fuck you and your music.

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Post by Hugsbox » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 12:10 PM UTC

suobset wrote: post #3

NackerHughes wrote: post #2

I click. I see an anime girlie bot challenge screen. I hear zoomer pop in ~32k 16-bit stereo. I see JavaScript animations and a seizure-inducing vibecoded layout. I close the tab. "Miss the old web?" The author wasn't even born then.

Well I am on the millennial/Gen Z cusp, and I think the new "old web" is a recreation of the corner of the Internet that puts humans before bots (as opposed to faithfully recreating it). Then again this website feels like it's doing a little too much.

What you're describing is the IndieWeb, I feel like if you're going to call something the "old web" the effort probably should be to actually recreate it a little more faithfully

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Post by frogcommander » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 1:17 PM UTC

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