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.
Needs more `await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, t));`
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#32Honestly 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".
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#33In real life every other website for the next week would have ads for "how-I-experience-web-today.com", Instagram and Facebook would have ads for other "experiences" as well
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#34Could not proceed after the article, which is somehow actually really dang realistic.
Do you have uBlock Origin enabled by any chance?
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#35Honestly 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".
IMHO, it should be there as soon as you arrive on the site and then reappear on every page load.
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#36Idea: 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) ...
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#37Nice touch that you need to disable the ad blocker to get the cookie privacy thing to show up.
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#38An 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 clusterfuck.
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#39How did we get here? Does any and everything ultimately get absorbed by the marketing department?
Money. The web was great until someone said "I love this, but how do we make money with it?"
Not really imo.
It may make sense in the short term, but in the long term these websites are losing customers, ie money. Online advertising is a failed business model. All those companies that started like this and succeeded quickly realized this and are constantly trying to pivot or have done so already.
I'd say the main reason for the crap web we have nowadays is: lazy people trying to get rich quick. There's nothing wrong with wanting to make money online, like people selling books, educational courses, retail in general.
What pisses me off are people who want it quick and with no work. There are literally millions of people who think that they can just throw together a website (read shopify account), enable drop-shipping through some magic shitty plugin they neither know or care anything about, and suddenly bags of money will descend upon them while they're drinking coffee, eating poached eggs at some hipster coffee shop, and posting trash on any of the grams. This fails of course and some give up while others resort to scams. This is where scummy marketing people shine. They "run the numbers" and decide to buy some bullshit fivver SEO service that litters the shit out of some keywords or engage in some other so dark of patterns that make those million-and-one cookie consent boxes seem innocent. Now take this and multiply it by hundreds of thousands of people over the last decade and a half (probably even more) who are stuck in a loop of seeing some bullshit "success story" on facebook of some random dude who's now a millionaire from selling wallets from china, wanting to do the same but are lazy and know nothing about any of the fields involved, try to scam, mostly failing, and repeat.