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For one, it is awful on mobile. We can have bare, simple sites while still making them accessible.
Why is it awful? Most barebones websites are naturally responsive..
The site loads in less than a second, you can do anything intuitively with a single click, all pages have a lot of useful information with zero fluff or clickbait.
Hacker News itself is a good example — no JavaScript bloat, loads instantly, works on anything. I also appreciate sites where you can actually find what you came for without dismissing three popups and a newsletter signup first. As someone who came late to the internet and learned a lot from straightforward, no-frills documentation sites, I have a soft spot for anything that just gets out of the way. With that being…
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For one, it is awful on mobile. We can have bare, simple sites while still making them accessible.
Why is it awful? Most barebones websites are naturally responsive..
I would be careful with calling that kind of design function over style. Modern UI design has its merits. But yes, good designs are not flashy, e.g. I love the design of Astro Starlight ( https://starlight.astro.build/ ), a starter kit for documentation pages. So I also took inspiration from "simple designs" for my personal site: https://bryanhogan.com/
> I would be careful with calling that kind of design function over style. Why?
Generally speaking though, I do think trying to paint 90s websites as some sort of utopian ideal of function and design is purely an exercise in nostalgia and nothing else. It is entirely possible to make fast, responsive, accessible, well-designed rich websites today, all without writing a word of JavaScript (not that including JS by itself is bad or anything). Do not mistake anti-user functions like heavy weight analytics and user tracking libraries, or poorly optimized and ill-architected code bundles as the current "state of the art".
This one has a special place in my heart https://www.tibia.com/news/
The Cloudflare gate and large cookie warning with a multi-step opt-out kind of killed it for me before I could even give it a chance. It’s just an off putting welcome for a new user.