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A website to destroy all websites

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Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by constantcrying »

The revealed preferences of the general population shows that the only way to accomplish this, is by banning the alternatives.

All indication point to the fact that the general population really, really likes getting angry at fake slop videos, endless discussion about the most inane over discussed topics and today's celebrity gossip.

Great educational content exists on the internet, social media could easily be about close connection to people around the world, but people evidently do not care about that.

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by mattmanser »

cataphract wrote: post #309
pavlus wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've read your comment before visiting the site, and it got me wondering -- how bad can it be? Can it be worse than those acid green on red sites of the 90s-00s? Imagine my surprise, when I opened the site and it looked and felt just like a museum or art exhibit. This was the literal feeling I had -- being at an art gallery, but online. I guess, these comments tell more about the commenters, than TFA. We should remin…

I think we can agree it's uncomfortable to read though: the font is too small, for instance. I had to use Firefox's reader mode.

Depends on your age. I remember being warned in my 20s that older people couldn't read 10pt font, 12pt was a stretch, I didn't really believe them.

Now I'm in my 40s, oh wow. Small, illegible, font is everywhere. Instructions on food is especially bad for this. At least on the computer you can usually force 125% font rendering.

Point being, the site is probably quite legible to people in their 20s.

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by [deleted] »

IvanK_net wrote: post #43

Internet is amazing, it is the best invention of humanity, and each year, a person spends more time on the internet (on average) than a year before, which shows that it is getting more and more useful for everyone. Those who enjoy saying "I do not learn enough, I do not improve myself enough, I do not work hard enough" (but you say "the humanity" instead of "I"), that is just your own fault. Let people use the intern…

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Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by youoy »

kawfey wrote: post #237
raincole wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you name your site "A website to destroy all websites" you're basically inviting people to judge it with extremely critical standard.

My blogpost titled “Millennials are killing ham radio” has received the most hits out of all of my other posts. It got me an interview with IEEE Spectrum and basically cemented my name as a ham radio influencer. Amateur radio is a remarkably niche hobby so that kind of attention is rare, but it took ragebait to do it. A title like “The Next Generation of Ham Radio” would have flopped. I know this because that’s what…

I finished reading this comment wondering what should I take away from it. Is it better to include alarming titles and be read? Or the other way around? Or what would be the sweet middle point?

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by ludicrousdispla »

Aurornis wrote: post #25

I think the comments here are a great example of why this idea always sounds better in nostalgic reminiscence than in practice: As I write this, nearly half of the comments here are complaining about this website. There are complaints about requiring JavaScript, the font size, the design, the color choices, the animations. Complaints about everything the designer did to make this site unique and personal, which was t…

I feel they have made stylistic choices that detract from the intent of their writing.

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by ludicrousdispla »

youoy wrote: post #315
kawfey wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My blogpost titled “Millennials are killing ham radio” has received the most hits out of all of my other posts. It got me an interview with IEEE Spectrum and basically cemented my name as a ham radio influencer. Amateur radio is a remarkably niche hobby so that kind of attention is rare, but it took ragebait to do it. A title like “The Next Generation of Ham Radio” would have flopped. I know this because that’s what…

I finished reading this comment wondering what should I take away from it. Is it better to include alarming titles and be read? Or the other way around? Or what would be the sweet middle point?

I'm really curious how a blogpost titled “Millennials are killing ham sandwiches” would fare, in comparison.

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by andai »

Aurornis wrote: post #25

I think the comments here are a great example of why this idea always sounds better in nostalgic reminiscence than in practice: As I write this, nearly half of the comments here are complaining about this website. There are complaints about requiring JavaScript, the font size, the design, the color choices, the animations. Complaints about everything the designer did to make this site unique and personal, which was t…

I thought HN's ideal website was a text file?

It's beautiful to be sure, I wanted to actually read what the author had to say, and stuff kept flying around my screen, so I did not get far.

Maybe if I printed it out...

Edit: Half joking with the printing (although I do find it much easier to read printed materials), but it definitely seems to me it that the author was trying to make a magazine and not a website. (A magazine where everything moves while you're trying to look at it!)

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by andai »

garganzol wrote: post #179

To give it a different light: by using an indie web approach (i.e. self host), there is an intrinsic guarantee that a publisher has put at least some effort and resources to make their materials public. This ensures that the published materials have certain authenticity and inherent amount of quality. Publishing them "the indie way" functions as a kind of proof of work: not a guarantee of excellence, but evidence tha…

Yeah, until I hook up Claude to my NeoCities ;)

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by PufPufPuf »

coldblues wrote: post #305

The website to destroy all websites is https://gwern.net For however much I can respect individuals for showing their creativity, the novelty of it wears off. The majority of people in the Indie Web scene all blend together. The presentation might be different, but the essence is mostly the same. Not everyone needs to express themselves and voice their opinions. "Lurk five more years before posting" as people used to…

I opened that webpage and the first thing I saw was a sidebar covering the text...
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