The very last thing that I saw on this site got me to laugh out loud. I'll leave it at that to not ruin it. Genius.
Same, literally laughed out loud.
How I Experience Web Today
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#82So true, so sad.
These days, when even a few hurdles of crap present themselves, I often just leave. I don’t care what the site has to say or sell me.
Whenever I come across a site that just displays content immediately, it fills me with joy. Usually it’s some obscure personal or academic site, but for a moment I feel like I’ve found a gem in the desert and I browse happily for a while…then I promptly add to a list of non-crap-peddling sites. I long for a curated list of such sites.
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#83Brilliant! Thank you for doing this! I wish I could send the link to almost every organization whose web sites I have had to endure. If you had offered me a rating pop-up, you would have been the first one I ever use (and gave 5 stars to). Now do one for those horrible CRM messages "Thank you for XXXX. You are very important to us at YYY. Please click here to give us important feedback on your experience." After I bo…
> If you had offered me a rating pop-up, you would have been the first one I ever use (and gave 5 stars to).
I've recently started to. For example, just last week, my telco's app (that I use because it's the least-hassle way to pay my phone/Internet bills) got 2 stars on Google Play Store, with a comment explaining that the app is fine, except slowish, and constantly nags about rating it on the Play Store.
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#84https://trimread.org/ helps with this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=4e530344963049 take a break.
Out of curiosity I took a look at his links, there actually pretty good.
Strips out all the crud from articles and gives you some stats on how much smaller it made them.
I don't know how you would shrink this article in particular, but for your standard news site, seems to work quite well.
As an example I fed the mosquito article from earlier into it and got this back. https://trimread.org/articles/437/info
Size went from 3.49 MB to 124 kB, the requests went from 210 to 6 and the load time went from 4.67 sec to 0.26 sec. Pretty good.
Re: How I Experience Web Today
#85Had to turn off ublock origin to experience it.
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#86I love the concept here (nice implementation too)
Removing the 'content' and just showing the structure of these annoying web elements in isolation has an interesting effect:
our minds typically do the exact opposite (to a certain extent)—the showcased elements are repeated so often they get partly filtered from experience: our minds know there's nothing interesting to them; a stored and practiced routine can be put on autoplay without conscious attention.
So the page serves to exactly invert that filter and highlight these elements that increasingly vanish[1] from our experience in response to repeated exposure.
[1] aside from a persistent low intensity feeling of annoyance/frustration of course
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#87try watching TV, I propose something like a law of technology:
'every technology that can be used to squeeze profit out of people is getting unusable in a very short amount of time'
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the business goal to get you to click the back button?
No, the business goal is to lie, trick, cheat and steal, to fuck a potential customer over so they part with their money. That the customer may not be satisfied afterwards doesn't matter - there are plenty of mitigation strategies, such as lock-in effects, playing off sunk cost fallacy, or drowning negative feedback on third-party sites with bought ratings, reviews and social media likes. Seeing a site like this shou…
You clearly don't understand capitalism.
The business just provided the most value™ to the customer at that moment in time
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#89I opened the link, saw the article, and was trying to figure out what point was trying to be made.
Then I opened it in incognito mode and it was making a point about the commoditization of the web.
Just use browser extensions, folks.
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#90So true, so sad. These days, when even a few hurdles of crap present themselves, I often just leave. I don’t care what the site has to say or sell me. Whenever I come across a site that just displays content immediately, it fills me with joy. Usually it’s some obscure personal or academic site, but for a moment I feel like I’ve found a gem in the desert and I browse happily for a while…then I promptly add to a list o…
> I long for a curated list of such sites.
I don't know if this is good news but I started doing this a while back and found so many sites that it was futile to keep them in one list. These days I tend to keep them in contextual notes or databases.
Also many of them fail to pass one or two annoyance tests, but I find that they're worth it anyway. For example they are not mobile friendly in some minor way, like the touch target for their menu is annoyingly small, or they are a little bit cluttered, or use more CPU than I'd like (specific mapping sites).
So it's not easy to fit a perfect list, but it's impressive to me just how deep the less-discovered, high quality web really is.
(Also I try to make my own obscure personal sites all the time as my contribution to this mess...)