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Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by manuelmoreale »

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.

Like you, I'm a fan of this kind of websites. I have one of my own in fact.

And since you're after curated lists, let me share a few links:

https://512kb.club/ https://terra.finzdani.net https://gossipsweb.net/directory https://theforest.link/ (I built this one for fun)

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

throwaway47292 wrote: post #254
sdevonoes wrote: post #106

IMHO, I think everyone here is missing the big point: all these "features" are being pushed to the web because A/B tests say so. The usual way things go is: - option 1: don't add feature X - option 2: add feature X - option 3: add feature X slightly modified So, since option 1 is not an option at all (businesses want to grow; they don't want "stable software", they want to push features live every sprint), then lean…

I have not worked in any company doing ab tests like that, it is always base vs variant. Option 1 vs option 2/3 and then if the feature wins, you can try option 2 vs option 3, if not they would scrap it, or blame it on the implementation and keep retrying until they either get false positive, or survivor bias makes it positive. I am not defending it as I also believe that ab tests ruin the web, but if anyone does opt…

I agree. I've seen a lot of AB test abuse, but it's mostly not outright, the kind where you try to re-roll until you get a false positive or sample sizes are so small that you get an effect on the treatment group despite the control group being much larger. It's still all statistical garbage though.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by pcurve »

sudcha wrote: post #259

They missed the auto playing videos that follow the page as you scroll with sounds on and need to be manually stopped, and download 50 mb without my permission. I agree with the idea. Miss a regular non intrusive web experience too much. The only place I usually find it is here on HN.

the worst is video players without separate audio control.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by zo1 »

fjfaase wrote: post #245
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…

I have an old style HTML (and a little CSS) personal website, but making it responsive (mobile compatible) is a lot of extra work. It would take me a few months spare time to fix all my hunderds of pages.

As an alternative suggestion: don't. The web was fine when you had to zoom in and out. If anything, make it "responsive" with dynamic font-size scaling.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by fsflover »

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…

> Whenever I come across a site that just displays content immediately, it fills me with joy.

Web search for such websites: https://wiby.me/.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by lordlic »

handrous wrote: post #10

This is less-bad than the real thing. [EDIT] I think I figured out the main difference: this lets me imagine that more than 10% of the "content" isn't also SEO garbage, and has actual value. [EDIT AGAIN] What it really needs is a giant sticky header that hides when scrolling down but pops up the second you scroll up at all , obscuring all the stuff you were scrolling up to see.

How about a "Find everything you needed?" popover that appears near the top when you move your cursor up to the tab bar to close the tab?

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

MathMonkeyMan wrote: post #205
arp242 wrote: post #172

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> 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. I find that disabling JavaScript often helps. I have it enabled by default, but disable it in uBlock on a per-site basis if some crap pops up. A lot of the times that fixes things. For example for some reason the BBC thinks it's helpful to display a big fat "Register for an account t…

I tried disabling Javascript by default, but there are too many important sites that require it. My browser's "disable javascript" extension can disable on a per-domain basis, but really what I'd like is on a per-URL-pattern basis, so that is disabled but not . Sometimes disabling scripts is not enough, so I also disable CSS. This makes images huge at the top of the page (navigation icons, etc.). So, then I disable i…

> what I'd like is on a per-URL-pattern basis, so that is disabled but not .

Try out uMatrix.

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