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Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by WA9ACE »

asdff wrote: post #197
WA9ACE wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You have to tell it how many of the top sites you want removed from the results. For instance you can remove the top 1000 sites and it will remove that foodnetwork.com result.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by devinmcafee »

throwthere wrote: post #134
bee_rider wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, can any webdevs explain a legitimate use for these features? Because my (admittedly uninformed) mind can only think of bad uses...

Routing in single-page applications relies heavily on the history API I think.

That's correct. When navigating around in a single page app, clicking on an in-app link won't trigger the browser to make a new HTTP GET to fetch an HTML response from the server. Instead, the routing system will use the pushState API to push a new entry into the history and update the DOM to match the new route. By using pushState, your client side JavaScript can replicate native browser behavior and preserve function of the back button to get to previous routes in the application.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by eloisius »

kinnth wrote: post #145

DuckDuckGo should add an ad / popup score to every article so that in the search results you could preview just how much crap you're expecting to see if you click. If there are no ads it could be a gold result or something :)

This sounds more like Brave's shtick, but I agree. I'd love to have a couple of symbols that warned of paywalls, ad/content ratio, cookie consent, etc.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

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…

If it's straight HTML and some CSS, I just can't do anything but smile. I love the people who just keep with the old way cause it will be the easiest to support and last the longest. After all, it's just text.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by nabakin »

Did some digging and found the guy who made this. Looks like he was a frontend engineer at Baidu! Would be neat to have some good Chinese software engineers on here.

If you guys want to check out his content, maybe give him a review for this website, here's what I've found:

https://juejin.cn/user/254742427077869

https://www.producthunt.com/@evan_lee5/made

https://www.cnblogs.com/hh54188/

https://www.zhihu.com/people/li-yi-69

https://v2ex.com/member/hh54188

http://qingbob.com/

https://spectrum.chat/users/hh54188?tab=info

https://codepen.io/hh54188

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by NiceWayToDoIT »

ksangeelee wrote: post #47
NiceWayToDoIT wrote: post #36

Idea: What if we had a search engine that would search only web sites without ads... It could have some type of "readability / usability / user friendliness rating" (score 0-10) ...

I did something along those lines as a proof of concept, seeded with links harvested from this site. http://kakapo.susa.net:8080/cfs/ A similar (and in my opinion more viable) approach is Marginalia Search. This down-scores pages with a large number of scripts, among other heuristics. https://search.marginalia.nu/

I like your proof of concept. I guess, next step would be to take google result, and crawl all their result and convert it into scores, rejecting in the process those that are going outside defined limits. Additionally, a weekly list of most infamous sites would be interesting to see, in the sense what people visit the most (probably social ad driven) but has bad UX...

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by NiceWayToDoIT »

pneto wrote: post #209
NiceWayToDoIT wrote: post #36

Idea: What if we had a search engine that would search only web sites without ads... It could have some type of "readability / usability / user friendliness rating" (score 0-10) ...

wiby.me is an interesting one.

it seems that manual submission is necessary.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by Noumenon72 »

allenu wrote: post #71

Since we're all commenting on what's missing, here's another missing thing: you scroll down to the end of the article and a totally unrelated article begins underneath it.

On Bloomberg Opinion, this extra article used to always count as one of my 10 free ones, too.
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