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Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

#151

Hey why is it that all these sites are always about how the old web was good and we should make things like the old web, but the only thing they ever make is stuff about how we should make things like the old web. I mean I would expect them to after making the first site suggesting you do it like this, to make a number of sites showing the aesthetic put to other subjects of interest. Like, Carl's Icosahedron Spot on…

So many people make websites that basically look like they are from the 90's (though without all the animated GIFs haha), and use basic features without any strictly-modern stuff. These are just a few off the top of my head: https://cblgh.org/ https://technomancy.us/list https://alexschroeder.ch/ http://100r.co/site/about_us.html https://dataswamp.org/~solene/ https://rgz.ee/ https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/ https://cod…

You might notice that the author of the website orignaly included a link section to a crapload of inspirations. Unfortunately CORS policy will block this section on most up to date browsers.

Thanks to Firefox devtools and a bit of quik & dirty regexp here is this list ;)

http://thatsthefinger.com/ http://hooooooooo.com/ http://tinytuba.com/ http://cant-not-tweet-this.com/ http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/ http://eelslap.com/ http://corndog.io/ http://burymewithmymoney.com/ http://www.trypap.com/ http://www.fallingfalling.com/ http://www.republiquedesmangues.fr/ http://www.partridgegetslucky.com/ http://weirdorconfusing.com/ http://www.rrrgggbbb.com/ http://www.koalastothemax.com/ http://beesbeesbees.com/ http://cat-bounce.com/ http://r33b.net/ http://www.sanger.dk/ http://chrismckenzie.com/ http://www.everydayim.com/ http://endless.horse/ http://corndogoncorndog.com/ http://www.pointerpointer.com/ http://www.ismycomputeron.com/ http://ninjaflex.com/ http://metaphorsofinfinity.com/ http://imaninja.com/ http://ihasabucket.com/ http://iamawesome.com/ http://www.electricboogiewoogie.com/ http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/ http://www.wutdafuk.com/ http://www.nullingthevoid.com/ http://zombo.com/ http://onemillionlols.com/ http://pixelsfighting.com/ http://www.ascii-middle-finger.com/ http://buzzybuzz.biz/ http://yeahlemons.com/ http://www.1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111... http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz/ http://space-turtles.rocks/ http://rtr.hackedbygod.net/ http://www.vape.horse/ http://rayps.com/ http://akrepnalan.com/ http://terrorpigeon.us/ http://paulvm.com/ http://pudim.com.br/ http://originalhampster.ytmnd.com/ http://tacospin.com http://www.internetfortheday.com/ http://www.akrepnalan.com/ http://finger-frenzy.now.sh/ http://www.oldversion.com/windows/netscape-3-04 http://www.cutercounter.com/ http://www.cutercounter.com/hit.php?id=10190&nd=6&style=10

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

#152
What drove us away from making fun shit? Was it our inferior need to make money? I used to think I was the greatest computer guy around until a guy in his dorm room, one year older than me, suddenly became a millionaire and then a billionaire. He made me feel so inferior, I lost the plot. It wasn't like being good at art as a kid, feeling valued, and then later on in life, realizing art isn't my thing, in a moment of disappointment, and then dismissing it as a career option. It was more like, seeing what he did, being greedy to want to copy it, and then seeking to be like a lesser version of zuckerberg, and to make an inferior facebook, while completely losing what I was doing in the first place, like the ultimate distraction.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

#156
post #73

It looks like shit but it loads faster than Medium and a lot of similar sites that stare at you with a blank page until JS finally shows the text/img content HTML was designed to display since the early 90s.

Medium usually tries to make me sign in or sign up, which is even worse.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

#157
This faked nostalgia is becoming irritating.

Websites which were like that didn't last long, and mostly were hosted on free webservers.

If you want to get rid of nostalgia please spend 60 whole minutes making sense of HTML+PHP5.6+jQuery copy pasted code. And make it IE6 compatible. And use tables for layout. And don't use stackoverflow, caniuse, or an IDE. You'll soon understand how we reached the current state of things.

t. Boomer that spends 8+ hours straightening PHP5.6 sghettis for a living, who still swears by FTPZilla and jQuery scripts.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

#158
post #96

It's a shitty website, but still uses like 500mb of node_modules to build, that's not the way we should be going to.

It's like they got things reversed. What I miss about old web dev is the simplicity of the tooling: no complex build systems, "CI" was just uploading your changes via FTP (maybe using something like Dreamweaver's features for keeping track of which files you've edited), and basically zero server config.

What I love about the web now is the rich features of modern HTML, CSS, and JS. I no longer spend my days debugging weird browser quirks. What I hate most are the fragile build and server environments.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

#160
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I loaded it on mobile too.. - Horizontal scrolling because it isn't properly responsive. - it doesn't reflow when the device orientation changes - no sound (there's an audio control so I guess there's meant to be..) - the audio control sits over the flags - wildly different text sizes everywhere - so much layout shift - from an error loading the Korean version I think it's running on a platform that tracks what users…

Upvote for serious criticism. I still take this over: - the noncompliant cookie warnings - ... with >400 "partners" (yes, I have counted) - works best in IE^HChrome - 20 seconds loading - written for Googlebot, instead of for a human like either the author or me. (Meaning it is bland, formula-driven.) websites I often deal with as long as it provides the answers/entertainment I am looking for.

> - works best in IE^HChrome

There's a GIF at the bottom declaring "This page is best viewed with Netscape 3.0"

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