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- an auto-playing ad covering the top half of the screen
- a cookie pop-up with “Accept All” dark patterned in and covering the bottom half of the screen
- a full screen email prompt popup once you interact with the page in any way
This is amusing as a developer, but there's a reason why Bootstrap is still a thing. It works. And I don't even really like it, to be quite honest. Yet in terms of what it's designed to do, it succeeds. The public doesn't know what Bootstrap is and, with a couple tweaks to the colors and border radii, they won't even notice that they're on a site that's nearly identical to a millon+ other sites.
I used to think that was bad. But compared to the javascript applications of today that don't even have text or images unless your run their code those sites were/are at least functional.
I find the easiest thing is to change the primary color and then remove border radii and you're golden - no-one notices or complains.
HEY LOOK, IT'S EVERY SUPERMARKET EVER. Huge automatic glass doors, shopping carts, aisles with stuff on shelves. So fucking creative.
A supermarket isn't designed to sell you on a product.
HEY LOOK, IT'S EVERY SUPERMARKET EVER. Huge automatic glass doors, shopping carts, aisles with stuff on shelves. So fucking creative.
A supermarket isn't designed to sell you on a product.
HEY LOOK, IT'S EVERY SUPERMARKET EVER. Huge automatic glass doors, shopping carts, aisles with stuff on shelves. So fucking creative.
Not just every bootstrap website. This is literally the stereotype of web 2.0. Every site was vertical scroll with absolute positioned static elements you scrolled down past. I used to think that was bad. But compared to the javascript applications of today that don't even have text or images unless your run their code those sites were/are at least functional.
This is now Tailwind. Purple everywhere!
The author is trying to be funny, but newsflash: Most people want to get shit done.