I was able to find it too after about two seconds but, talk about an overstimulating experience. The site’s colors and haphazard organization actually made me a little nervous.
I bet it violates most every example in my list a few posts above.
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Why is website design so awful today, generally?
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I was able to find it too after about two seconds but, talk about an overstimulating experience. The site’s colors and haphazard organization actually made me a little nervous.
I bet it violates most every example in my list a few posts above.
Yeah, that's it. But how microscopic is that? It's teeny. Also, would it hurt to have a simple 'login' word you could notice easily?
FYI: the site doesn't like VPNs/Privacy browsers/Linux. If you get past their reliance on horrible CloudFlare crap, you end up with the infinite Google ReCaptcha puzzles.
FYI: the site doesn't like VPNs/Privacy browsers/Linux. If you get past their reliance on horrible CloudFlare crap, you end up with the infinite Google ReCaptcha puzzles.
Nothing doing I can't access the straighttalk site at all. Neither with Firefox or Chrome on Windows, nor Safari or Firefox on MacOS either. Regardless of the UI design that is a huge fail right there.
The sites you and Tozovac posted are pretty nice on the other hand.
The sites you and Tozovac posted are pretty nice on the other hand.
If you don't suck at web design its literally a stylesheet.
Plus, who really wants to put in more work for creating a good, robust product, when there’s time to be saved that can be used to scroll through TikTok videos?
Ya know, I miss when each website actually looked different and not all homogenized the way they all are today. It's bad enough flat design came back, but it's even worse that no one is bold enough to bother differentiating anymore. This also goes to hardware. Every smartphone, tablet looks alike! It's almost like individuality became obsolete right along with skeuomorphic design. Please, tell me I'm not the only one bored with this so-called 'future'!
I'd retort that this standardisation is the welcome price to pay for the existence of modular plugins for webApplications and the time thusly saved, I for one loathe JS, being able to use blaze is great and saves tremendous devTime.
That being said, I deeply hate infinite scrolling as a standard, but whaddyawant everything now is about the data captured less than the information provided.
PS. Masterclasses like https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/ are a lost art...
this is horrid, although I quite like the utility
Oh, I tend to set the old net to 2010 and look up info in the archive, Sites then looked a lot nicer and weren't retina searing white and didn't have the infinite scroll behavior.
Also, sites then didn't pull those annoying 'fake virus' popups which are still a disease on modern browsers. I had two of those scams attempt to fool me at work just looking up manualslib.com
Thankfully I'm not foolish enough to fall victim to them, but for every person who remarks that ancient OS is automatically going to get you hacked, I tell them how many times scammers exploit modern OSs and it's even more common.
That said, homogenization sucks. It's boring, bland, and there's no innovation. Heck, nothing has really changed much since 2015. Phones are still too big, and the UI is much the same flat boring garbage it's been since 2013. There's absolutely zero variety. In 2010, you literally had a phone for every taste. Small, large, keyboard slider, permanent keyboard, etc. Heck, even cars haven't changed much from when my Saturn ION was new. You could always tell an 80s car from a 90s car but cars since 2005-6 have the same base designs they do today. Also notice how there's little color variation these days. White, grey, monotones. You might see a red or black or blue vehicle but they're not nearly as common. This future sucks. I want the future that 2010 would have brought us had no one followed the Windows 8 design book. It was bad enough it infected UI design, but now we have logos, hardware following the bland minimalist playbook.
Also, sites then didn't pull those annoying 'fake virus' popups which are still a disease on modern browsers. I had two of those scams attempt to fool me at work just looking up manualslib.com
Thankfully I'm not foolish enough to fall victim to them, but for every person who remarks that ancient OS is automatically going to get you hacked, I tell them how many times scammers exploit modern OSs and it's even more common.
That said, homogenization sucks. It's boring, bland, and there's no innovation. Heck, nothing has really changed much since 2015. Phones are still too big, and the UI is much the same flat boring garbage it's been since 2013. There's absolutely zero variety. In 2010, you literally had a phone for every taste. Small, large, keyboard slider, permanent keyboard, etc. Heck, even cars haven't changed much from when my Saturn ION was new. You could always tell an 80s car from a 90s car but cars since 2005-6 have the same base designs they do today. Also notice how there's little color variation these days. White, grey, monotones. You might see a red or black or blue vehicle but they're not nearly as common. This future sucks. I want the future that 2010 would have brought us had no one followed the Windows 8 design book. It was bad enough it infected UI design, but now we have logos, hardware following the bland minimalist playbook.
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Obligatory https://bit.ly/3vtQz1T (link shortener because url is word-filtered)
Even better; I just tried it in Acorn Browse (circa 1998) and it works fine there too. In my opinion it actually looks a little nicer than it does in Safari!
Omg genius! Even if a bit too all-white white-out, lol.
Reminds of how 70% of the time I go to a particular website, it is to get something done or learn something. 30% of the time is to be entertained by the content, and 0% of the time to be entertained or wowed by the website itself. In fact, if and when a website does happen to wow me, it’s when I notice how nothing about it gets in the way, like bringatrailer.com I posted about recently.
And, oh, the irony:
Another thing modern sites do that truly grinds my gears is make it take more steps just to do what used to be one step.
Go to Amazon and try to buy an MP3. You search, it takes you to Amazon Music for some asinine reason, which tries to force a subscription on you, which you close out of, then you have to find where they put the 'buy MP3 album' button, which takes a couple more steps. Then rinse, repeat for any other song/album/artist you want next. It used to have a direct link to the MP3 store and took far less effort.
Then there's Captchas. I HATE THOSE THINGS to quote Col. Sheppard of Stargate Atlantis. You try to login anywhere, and you have to go through what feels like multiple steps, plus a game, plus a puzzle after that, then you might have to start over because the site just had to decide THAT DAY to enforce 2-factor auth.
I just screwed it and use a password manager and set everything to stay logged in forever and if it requires 2-factor hell, I tell it to remember every device I use.
Also, am I the only one one earth who despises subscription models for everything? Who the Yotz thought that one up? and why?
Go to Amazon and try to buy an MP3. You search, it takes you to Amazon Music for some asinine reason, which tries to force a subscription on you, which you close out of, then you have to find where they put the 'buy MP3 album' button, which takes a couple more steps. Then rinse, repeat for any other song/album/artist you want next. It used to have a direct link to the MP3 store and took far less effort.
Then there's Captchas. I HATE THOSE THINGS to quote Col. Sheppard of Stargate Atlantis. You try to login anywhere, and you have to go through what feels like multiple steps, plus a game, plus a puzzle after that, then you might have to start over because the site just had to decide THAT DAY to enforce 2-factor auth.
I just screwed it and use a password manager and set everything to stay logged in forever and if it requires 2-factor hell, I tell it to remember every device I use.
Also, am I the only one one earth who despises subscription models for everything? Who the Yotz thought that one up? and why?
The way that the images seem to get blurrier every time I see a Captcha. And the difficulty of deciding whether a vehicle counts as a bus - or not.
I've even tried to use settings to imply I cannot use them due to accessibility issues. But I simply cannot get away from them. Give me halfway decent 2FA any time.
The 'click this image that matches this type' of Captchas are endless. Heaven forbid you ever use Linux or Firefox, as they are infinite. Google runs the service and they apparently despise Linux despite Android being based on it!
I'd rather just ensure your users create a strong password and change them every so often over 2FA or Captchas.
I'd rather just ensure your users create a strong password and change them every so often over 2FA or Captchas.
You’re basically training an AI for free every time you fill a captcha.
Let’s be real all these complaints stem from the fact that Steve Jobs made it easy for millions of tards to get on the Internet and everything online has gone to **** as a result of the collective user base dropping 35 IQ points vs the 90s.
There are a few isolated corners on the Internet that are still very much Web 1.0 due to a fanatical user base but they are also dwindling. I hope some time in the next decade these “trends” and the user base become obnoxious enough that people like us are motivated to set up our own communities with a high enough barrier to entry that the cattle aren’t motivated enough to invade.
For now reddit seems to be the primary containment site for the hordes of mouth breathers, however other platforms are also very important to keep the small, still-good parts of the internet clear. I am worried that Musk trying to de-crapify Twitter will lead to a mass exodus of its worst elements. Hopefully they go to reddit but if the demise of Tumblr is any indication, a non-trivial percentage will end up ******** up other unrelated websites with their mere presence.
On another forum, someone asked a question about how to accomplish X in product Y. The first reply? "I don't use that so I don't know". What on earth are you replying for then?!
Equally as helpful as wordy 1 star reviews for receiving an item late.
Oh there was a time when that was much, much worse. Anyone remember Yahoo! Answers? How about Askmefast.com? That latter one came up at the top of every. single. search. and It always wanted to hide the actual answer behind a darned paywall, or endlessly scroll past a ton of JavaScript-based ads (many of which contained malware-injecting trojans) to try to see the 'free' answer which, too often, was just 'bruh!'
Unfortunately, the equally-annoying Quora still exists. Complete with fake chat auto-loading.
Twitter was a lost cause since day one. Anyone remember when loading the site often produced what became at the time the most annoying meme?
I see that type of infuriatingly useless reply and raise you a “why would you need to do that?” or “you shouldn’t need to do that”
What in the world? Someone just sent me a link to a product on the Lego website. Clicking it resulted in this abomination:
The whole point of a URL is that it refers to a specific page. Why in the world would you pop up a message asking whether you want to go to a completely different page?!
When you click Continue it still doesn't show the page. Instead, it starts harping on about cookies. At that point I just closed the window and did something else (namely, came here to grizzle).
The whole point of a URL is that it refers to a specific page. Why in the world would you pop up a message asking whether you want to go to a completely different page?!
When you click Continue it still doesn't show the page. Instead, it starts harping on about cookies. At that point I just closed the window and did something else (namely, came here to grizzle).
This is the case on many Linux forums. Try to ask them how to disable updates or to make the UI skeuomorphic and you get 'You shoudn't disable updates!' or 'Who the F wants skeuo UI today? Linux is just fine without it!'
You'd think for an OS meant for tinkering they'd be all for it. Whatever!
Does Usenet still exist? I know archives exist but are there any new people even active there anymore? What about FTP or Gopher/Whois? Is there some far corner of the web where Flash still lives?
BTW the image of the Lego site is sorta ironic. The image on the right looks far more pleasing to the eyes. Even the button looks better. I've seen the 'kids' smartwatches too. Why do they have a better looking UI than a modern adult smartwatch? Heck, I used to refer to the LeapPad to refer to how cartoony flat UI was. Now the LeapPads have gone skeuo.
Re: cookies, I'm surprised that there's even a need for an EU law (which has also made its way to U.S. sites even though the USA is NOT in the EU) to pop-up annoying banners saying 'this site uses cookies...'
There were tons of posts way back in the AOL days about what are cookies? They're all in my C:\Windows\tmp folder! Are they viruses? That was 1996! You'd think it'd be blatantly obvious by now to everyone! Or have people really become dumber and more afraid of learning than I thought?
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