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Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by rglynn »

snek_case wrote: post #121
dwa3592 wrote: post #50

Wait, this was a nice article. why are people complaining?

Without wanting to sound overly pessimistic, I subjectively feel like comments on Hacker News have become more negative and cynical over the last 10 years. It often seems like the prevailing attitude is "let me try and point to a perceived flaw" or "here is why this is not good enough" rather than being helpful or supportive... We're staying away from the hacker ethos IMO. It's by no means a perfect article, but the…

Assuming that your observation is true, I would guess the average age of HNers has increased YoY, which is likely to have something to do with it.

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by Cactus_HN »

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…

All the criticism and thoughts regarding both the topic and website are nothing more than personal perspectives.

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by [deleted] »

Kovah wrote: post #295
CGamesPlay wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To sum it up: this is not so much a problem of the internet as a lack of discernment among its users. This is very true. I've found that there's more good content than there ever was before, but that there's also much more bad content, too, so the good is harder to find. RSS helps me, curated newsletters help me. What else helps build this discernment?

Sorry for the shameless plug, but I built [Cloudhiker]( https://cloudhiker.net ) exactly for this: exploring great websites.

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Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by TeMPOraL »

praptak wrote: post #321
Uehreka wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The definition of “Tech bros” is “tech people you don’t like”. There’s no agreed upon definition (just like how people disagree about what is/isn’t a “grift”) because it’s not meant to be descriptive, it’s a rhetorical device.

No, it's tech people you don't like for a specific set of reasons : it's mostly hubris and its implications like downplaying the damage the tech does to society and environment.

perceived downplaying of the damage. Popular soundbites (including "don't solve social problems with technology") have it generally backwards, and most people don't go beyond them.

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by pavlus »

gcanyon wrote: post #326
taneq wrote: post #324

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue is that it's beautifully designed for a portrait phone-ish-sized screen. Try viewing it in 16:9 and it's a mess. I'm not saying this to criticise; the author owes me nothing, and if I shrink my browser window down then it looks lovely. But I think this is where the confusion is coming from. Half the comments are from people looking at it on a widescreen and half are on a portrait monitor or a phone. "What t…

Wow. I had (just now) made one comment on the bad layout. As you might guess, I'm on desktop, and looking at the site in a window wider than it is tall. I saw your comment and shrunk my window to be half as wide as it is tall, and the layout corrects itself and changes -- dramatically.

Surprisingly, I had the art exhibit impression opening it on 16:9 desktop. It's sparse, as a gallery, or a luxury boutique, where free space accentuates value of content. It looks OK on mobile, but on desktop it's the sparse, but non-monotonous layout, that guides attention and provides a second layer to the content.

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by user24 »

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 thought it was https://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by pavlus »

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.

You could scale it to 120%, font would become more readable and it would even remove the text overlap with the tilted image in part three. At 100% font looks similar in size to the one on HN, but a bit less readable, I agree.

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by lljk_kennedy »

raincole wrote: post #203
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…

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

Hm. I read the title differently - that we create "A" personal website to break the monopoly of the "All" websites like the social media sites he mentions.

The singular destroys the monolithic many.

Re: A website to destroy all websites

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Post by npilk »

The page is called "a website to destroy all websites", and their goal is to...get everyone to make their own personal websites?

I agree with that goal, but then I might change the title. Maybe that's part of the problem - "website" sounds like something a big corporation makes.

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