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Don't you realize that you can't build a usable site without mountains of JS and user-tracking scripts? /sarcasm It's really refreshing to see a fast, small ef

Don't you realize that you can't build a usable site without mountains of JS and user-tracking scripts? /sarcasm It's really refreshing to see a fast, small efficient site that gets rid of all the bullshit. Congrats!

disiplus 10y ago
with all free services it starts this way ( look at imgur and so on. ) and eventually ends in ads ridden monster. but we usually end up in a couple of years great service, before they figure out that they could be earning money with serving ads or selling data.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  Let's be grateful for what we have now. The cycle is usually completed by another free service starting and being usable for the next few years, and in this case there's no pain in switching (no content you uploaded and spread URLs to), so I wouldn't worry. On the other hand, in the age of HTML "hello world" including an Angular installation, downloading Bootstrap from external CDN, and at least three different kind of tracking scripts, I think sites like this one need to be praised loudly.
- Fnoord 10y ago
  I never see any banners on Imgur. I block banners. What Extratorrents and The Pirate Bay do tho seems to be something akin to clickjacking. I click on a link to a torrent search result (or a download link), a tab opens, and it immediately closes. Rest assured this generates them money.
  - ErikDub 10y ago
    That is your adblocker closing the popup as soon as it opens. For users without an adblocker the tab stays open.
TeMPOraL 10y ago
Yes! At first I literally couldn't believe what I was seeing - ZERO third-party bullshit in uMatrix. Not just none to unblock to make the site work - none at all! (Apparently you can make a website without downloading Bootstrap from someone's external CDN...) And then... oh my God, how fast the site is. I can actually feel I have a somewhat modern, powerful computer. Usual day-to-day browsing makes me forget that. So yeah, for this reason alone I'll be using and recommending this site. Great job!
- Moru 10y ago
  I tried doing our site like that several times but everyone just complains it's ugly... sigh
  - TuringTest 10y ago
    CSS and design skills have nothing to do with having JavaScript disabled.
    - CaptSpify 10y ago
      You'd think so, but I've heard plenty of web-devs complain that sites look "ugly" just because it was built without JS. I'm not saying it makes sense, but I've definitely heard it.
Supwe9 10y ago
Awesome

disiplus 10y ago

with all free services it starts this way ( look at imgur and so on. ) and eventually ends in ads ridden monster. but we usually end up in a couple of years great service, before they figure out that they could be earning money with serving ads or selling data.

TeMPOraL 10y ago
Let's be grateful for what we have now. The cycle is usually completed by another free service starting and being usable for the next few years, and in this case there's no pain in switching (no content you uploaded and spread URLs to), so I wouldn't worry. On the other hand, in the age of HTML "hello world" including an Angular installation, downloading Bootstrap from external CDN, and at least three different kind of tracking scripts, I think sites like this one need to be praised loudly.
Fnoord 10y ago
I never see any banners on Imgur. I block banners. What Extratorrents and The Pirate Bay do tho seems to be something akin to clickjacking. I click on a link to a torrent search result (or a download link), a tab opens, and it immediately closes. Rest assured this generates them money.
- ErikDub 10y ago
  That is your adblocker closing the popup as soon as it opens. For users without an adblocker the tab stays open.

TeMPOraL 10y ago

Yes! At first I literally couldn't believe what I was seeing - ZERO third-party bullshit in uMatrix. Not just none to unblock to make the site work - none at all! (Apparently you can make a website without downloading Bootstrap from someone's external CDN...) And then... oh my God, how fast the site is. I can actually feel I have a somewhat modern, powerful computer. Usual day-to-day browsing makes me forget that. So yeah, for this reason alone I'll be using and recommending this site. Great job!

Moru 10y ago
I tried doing our site like that several times but everyone just complains it's ugly... sigh
- TuringTest 10y ago
  CSS and design skills have nothing to do with having JavaScript disabled.
  - CaptSpify 10y ago
    You'd think so, but I've heard plenty of web-devs complain that sites look "ugly" just because it was built without JS. I'm not saying it makes sense, but I've definitely heard it.

Supwe9 10y ago

Awesome