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Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by WA9ACE »

leavenotracks wrote: post #120
themodelplumber wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I long for a curated list of such sites. I don't know if this is good news but I started doing this a while back and found so many sites that it was futile to keep them in one list. These days I tend to keep them in contextual notes or databases. Also many of them fail to pass one or two annoyance tests, but I find that they're worth it anyway. For example they are not mobile friendly in some minor way, like the to…

> …but it's impressive to me just how deep the less-discovered, high quality web really is. Would that there were a search engine out there that prioritised the indexing of these high quality ‘well behaved’ sites.

You’re looking for https://millionshort.com/

I’ve found very many niche sites, blogs, and information dumps with this engine. It’s astounding how much is never surfaced on google or DuckDuckGo.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by mrspeaker »

pizzapim wrote: post #11

Had to turn javascript on to read an article, very realistic.

And I looked in the console messages, expecting to see a lil' easter egg or something, but instead I see `Loading failed for the with source “https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-S8P17EH...”.`. Extra realism!

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by philipov »

mathnmusic wrote: post #32
tick_tock_tick wrote: post #26

Honestly the site is way too performant to be realistic. All those buttons worked nearly instantly. I'm assuming you're missing the awaited tracking networking calls.

After all the popups, it needs a last one saying "this site works best in our mobile app".

There are popups? I didn't see any. Must be my malware blocker in action.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by russellbeattie »

The fact is that any web site that gets a majority of their traffic via search traffic tends to be trash: These sites don't care if they abuse their users as they know they're not coming back, so they play the numbers game and load the pages with any possible revenue generating feature possible, regardless of how user hostile it might be. Sadly, this represents most of the web.

My personal pet peeves are recipe sites. They are the absolute worst!! The other day I went to look up the right proportions for lemonade - which has all of three ingredients, and a one word instruction: stir. You should try it yourself to really see how bad it is.

(For future reference, 1 part sugar and lemon juice to 4 parts water. You can get fancy and make a simple syrup first, but if you stir well enough, it doesn't matter much in my opinion.)

You know who has enough influence to fix this issue? Google. When they said they were giving mobile websites a ranking boost, the web changed relatively over night to mobile-friendly pages. If Google announces they will penalize websites that over monetize? Poof, we'd all have a readable web again.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by asdff »

themodelplumber wrote: post #90
leavenotracks wrote: post #82

So true, so sad. These days, when even a few hurdles of crap present themselves, I often just leave. I don’t care what the site has to say or sell me. Whenever I come across a site that just displays content immediately, it fills me with joy. Usually it’s some obscure personal or academic site, but for a moment I feel like I’ve found a gem in the desert and I browse happily for a while…then I promptly add to a list o…

> I long for a curated list of such sites. I don't know if this is good news but I started doing this a while back and found so many sites that it was futile to keep them in one list. These days I tend to keep them in contextual notes or databases. Also many of them fail to pass one or two annoyance tests, but I find that they're worth it anyway. For example they are not mobile friendly in some minor way, like the to…

Someone needs to just scrape the web for light weight websites then offer a search engine just for these sites. Rid the corruption from the web please.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by asdff »

WA9ACE wrote: post #191
leavenotracks wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> …but it's impressive to me just how deep the less-discovered, high quality web really is. Would that there were a search engine out there that prioritised the indexing of these high quality ‘well behaved’ sites.

You’re looking for https://millionshort.com/ I’ve found very many niche sites, blogs, and information dumps with this engine. It’s astounding how much is never surfaced on google or DuckDuckGo.

How do you use it like that? I typed in "falafel" as a test and the first result was JS heavy foodnetwork.com.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by asdff »

coldpie wrote: post #157
dc3k wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not seeing any autoplaying videos unrelated to the article that pop into a PIP window in the bottom of the screen as you scroll causing the amount that you've scrolled to jump so you lose your place

I have no idea how anyone browses the web without NoScript.

They give up and browse facebook instead

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by hardwaresofton »

asdff wrote: post #196
themodelplumber wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I long for a curated list of such sites. I don't know if this is good news but I started doing this a while back and found so many sites that it was futile to keep them in one list. These days I tend to keep them in contextual notes or databases. Also many of them fail to pass one or two annoyance tests, but I find that they're worth it anyway. For example they are not mobile friendly in some minor way, like the to…

Someone needs to just scrape the web for light weight websites then offer a search engine just for these sites. Rid the corruption from the web please.

But would anyone pay for it? Basically a relatively closed and essentially almost manually curated web ring seems like it'd offer a lot of value, but who pays?

Maybe it could work if you charge users a super small base fee (let's say $1/month), and charge commercial sites that want to be listed in certain verticals?

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

dredmorbius wrote: post #38

An admirable attempt. But nowhere near sufficient. - Not NEARLY enough link-litter (social links). - No Taboola Chumbox. SAD! PATHETIC!!! - Needs a CTA interruption about 15--30s after landing on the payload page. - Needs a useless hero image. - Needs more interstitial nags within the article itself. In bold and annoying context. - Needs more social links after the byline. Yes, today's web is an utter and complete cl…

- Needs a CTA interruption that triggers when you move your mouse upwards to navigate back or close the tab.
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