Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home <3 In the time honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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Subreddit archive is available here: https://tankies.la/archive and is updated (probably later today), however it is still heavily under construction and you should expect continued disruptions/changes in usability of the page over the coming weeks. Be warned, it’s like marxists.org level of web design as I’m only interested in it working, not its appearance rn.
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Web design peaked with marxists.org. That site is fast as shit.
Well yeah its pretty barebone. Old school coding. Huge advantage in speed compared to websites like reddit which i feel is always on the verge of crashing my browser. Didnt they say they would never redesign the site ? Lol
The reddit site somehow manages to use 91% of my 11th gen i7 just to open and close a post. Why do people put up with this idiocy? It’s not like you have to make a plain text website, you can use CSS and make it orders of magnitude faster while still looking good.
I legitimately hate modern websites, they’re confusing af and you always have to wait for shit to finish loading
I beg to differ
Yes, haha… YES!
These pages and the writing reminds me of maddox.
Pfft, better? Excuse me, but I only settle for the best.
Or if your prefer, the slightly better one
lol i like how people will complain about out of date website design and then I look at statistics from subreddits i moderate and most the users are using old reddit lol
*woah i can’t say a certain word on this site interesting
Where did that bring you? Back to me.
As long as we can keep modern color pallets, we need to bring barebones web design back.
There is a slur filter coded into Lemmy, I think it’s neat.
Evil gommunists 1948 jorgoh well
interesting i have just learned a few things and decided to edit this comment.
i’m not complaining, i don’t at all care. just find it an interesting design choice.
The thing is, you can make a good looking website with just CSS and HTML, and a couple manually-written kilobytes of JS. Reddit has decided instead to basically make the whole thing written in JS that populates a blank HTML page, like most modern sites, which means it takes forever to load, has a bunch of useless features no one asked for, and uses 91% of my 11th gen i7 CPU when I do anything on it. It is an absolutely idiotic practice and I have no idea why people think it’s good to have a slow, bloated site that crashes your device if it’s more than a few years old.
Yeah, all the sites I write are mostly CSS and HTML with some manually-written JS sprinkled in where needed. Some of these modern sites are literally a blank page that gets populated with JS. It’s multiple megabytes large, really slow, full of bugs, and unnecessarily resource-intensive.
Why does that happen?
There are now many front-end JS frameworks that make work easier for developers in exchange for speed, space, and resources. More and more corporations are finding they can make more money and spend less money if they have their devs use the frameworks to complete the websites more quickly. This is a trend that has gone beyond just web development. Corporations wanted their employees to write desktop apps faster, so they made Electron, the bane of my existence. Essentially, it is a website bundled with a Chromium browser (open-source version of Chrome). Discord uses Electron, for example. This means that to install Discord, you also have to install the browser, and deal with Chromium’s immense resource usage as well as that of the JS-filled website it loads, just to chat with your friends and read your emails. It’s absolutely idiotic, but as long as we have capitalism, corporations will cut corners to exploit the working people even more.
Tbf “because capitalists and profit motive” was something I should have just guessed 😅 thanks for the insight though, I had no idea!