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Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by calepayson »

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #446
calepayson wrote: post #439

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My partner is an outdoor ed teacher at a no-screens school. I tried to teach her to code a few months back and it was hilarious. We started with "First download VS Code". We never made it to another step. I had a similar experience showing her Skyrim. She never quite figured out how to walk and look at the same time. Made for an absolute berserker of a barbarian. In any field, when you're surrounded by competent peop…

Literally perfectly relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2501/

Brilliant hahaha

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by zjp »

gamerdonkey wrote: post #436
zjp wrote: post #23

Millennials delenda est. Or maybe Gen X. But definitely millennials. I am stockpiling champagne for when performative profanity goes to the grave with the silent generation against which it is still rebelling 70 years later. I do not want to order the sloppy toppy burger at BURGERSLUT. Just give me a cheeseburger. But yes, you should build a website.

What do you want the title to be? "Have a Website"? No, that's missing the emphasis. "I Strongly Encourage Businesses to Have a Website"? There we go. That sounds bland enough to be regurgitated by your LLM of the week. Enjoy your war on adjectives, I guess. It's certainly going to make the world more interesting. Jesus fucking christ.

'Fuck' is every part of speech simultaneously because it doesn't mean anything.

I just want it to be clever and load bearing. Back to the food lens: like an ice cream shop called Daddy's Ice Cream, stylized as Daddy's [Ice] Cream, a name that would recast even "Vanilla", selling a flavor called "Chocolate Paint". You have to work to figure it out. Is it a non sequitur, a Valentine's Day tradition, or a failure of prep? It doesn't force you to be the straight man in a bit. You have an out. The words are literally clean. It's not 'ha, I am about to sexually submit to my food, and eating is a blowjob'.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by tartoran »

andreygrehov wrote: post #470
tartoran wrote: post #443

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Do you think that by deleting facebook posts anything gets deleted on Facebook's servers?

It likely gets physically deleted after 3-5 years, whereas on HN I can neither delete nor archive a comment or post I made yesterday.

That's the nature of HN though, there's nothign hidden taking place behind scenes, cookies, etc.. Everything is in plain sight. That's one of the reasons many people have anonymous handles on HN, they just don't disclose personal and stay anonymous. There are some people who do not care at all and post thier real identity as well as links to their personal websites, and such. There's a way to track someone using stylometry but that's an entire different story though...

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by cxr »

lleu wrote: post #490
duskdozer wrote: post #419

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I wouldn't have the highest confidence in the results if I open up the homepage and my fans rev up tbh.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. I’ve tested it personally out on some real clunkers. Maybe the animations on the landing page don’t play nice with every browser… Hard to know without more details, but I guess I appreciate you checking it out either way.

It doesn't look like they're "trying to say" anything. They said it.

They opened the homepage and heard and/or felt their fans rev up, which didn't leave a good impression. They don't have confidence that your product/service is worth paying for (perhaps not worth using even if it were free).

There's nothing else to figure out.

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Post by browningstreet »

Arainach wrote: post #14

Someone wrote and deleted a comment saying > I don't get it. LLMs are supposed to have 100% bridged this gap from "normie" to "DIY website." What's missing? This is an all too common thought process among technologists, so: Where to even start? Well, let's start that every single "AI" company is massively overhyping everything to try to avoid any unfortunate realizations about the emperor's clothes regarding their Ca…

I’ve built websites for clients. Some of those clients were restaurants and small businesses. Often professionals.

Send any of them a list of 5 questions, the likelihood that you get 5 answers is close to nil.

These people might be good at what they do, but a website might as well be city planning to them.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by stackghost »

hackable_sand wrote: post #42
stackghost wrote: post #28

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I've admittedly never heard of wix, but I was under the impression squarespace was selling "e-commerce solutions" and stuff.

"and stuff" damnnnn

You quoted "and stuff" and then wrote "damnnn" as if quoting "and stuff" was somehow significant but I have zero clue what you're insinuating.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by AuthAuth »

RandomGerm4n wrote: post #189

I don’t understand why people think it’s so difficult to build a website. If you let go of the idea that every little site has to look ‘modern’ and have thousands of features, it’s really easy. Stallman’s website would be a good example. It’s super minimalist, and there’s nothing stopping a restaurant from building a site like that too. The homepage can simply list the opening hours and special offers, and then have…

Having a website like stallmans would be worse for a business than having no website

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by lleu »

cxr wrote: post #504
lleu wrote: post #490

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I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. I’ve tested it personally out on some real clunkers. Maybe the animations on the landing page don’t play nice with every browser… Hard to know without more details, but I guess I appreciate you checking it out either way.

It doesn't look like they're "trying to say" anything. They said it. They opened the homepage and heard and/or felt their fans rev up, which didn't leave a good impression. They don't have confidence that your product/service is worth paying for (perhaps not worth using even if it were free). There's nothing else to figure out.

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Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by susiecambria »

Totally agree. Websites are a must.

But websites are not everything. Everything would include updating the website with hours, menus, etc. And since way too many businesses in my part of the world (rural Virginia, though not sure that matters) can't update their hours, email, menus, etc. on socials, there is no way they can manage a website.

Lately, I've been trying to get restaurants, in particular, to share their news in text in addition to the graphic. They can't/won't do that. Why? Not sure and I don't care enough to ask. But I am not following them anymore and telling them why. Not sure they care, which is fine.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by lucb1e »

freetime2 wrote: post #210

I definitely view it as a red flag if a business doesn't have a website in 2026. It doesn't need to be a fancy website, but does at least need a list of products, business hours, work samples, and contact info. If they don't have that, then I view it as an indication that other aspects of their business might also be lacking in professionality or high friction. That being said, if they have a strong presence on Googl…

> At least the info on Google Maps is publicly visible without logging in

Ah yeah enjoy that while it lasts. https://9to5google.com/2026/02/18/google-maps-limited-view-s... found via https://tweakers.net/nieuws/244948/google-test-beperking-inf...

Websites are all independent and controlled by the owners of the restaurant or shop. They'll do what's in the interest of getting customers.

Google has a tangential set of goals: tying you to their product. Since they also own this gateway to the web, they can put their product at the top of every web search results page and slowly push the independent web farther and farther down. Nowadays, gee, business owners update their google maps entry more than their actual website. How strange that nobody was able to get a competitor off the ground either

It's so sad to me when we let this happen. That my mom doesn't know any better, yeah okay, but us hackers, whatever it is that 'hacker' stands for anymore

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