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Fantastic website. Far better than 98% of the sites I’ve visited this year. Far better than any site designed by a front-end engineer. Loaded fast despite all t
by leephillips 5y ago
Fantastic website. Far better than 98% of the sites I’ve visited this year. Far better than any site designed by a front-end engineer. Loaded fast despite all the pictures. No cookie warning. No doorslams. No static elements taking up half the viewport. The only thing it needs is a max-width to limit the line length.
- cyberge99 5y agoAgreed. I even read it in an Italian accent. The content speaks for itself (not pun intended).
- ryandrake 5y agoYes! I think before someone calls themself a "web developer" they should go view pages like that and bask in the instant load time. View source on that page and take a moment of silence to appreciate it. And then think about it every time they add a newsletter subscription call-to-action or auto-playing video.
- pedroma 5y agoUnfortunately it's usually the bloat that makes money for these websites, whether they're ads or auto-playing videos.
- JohnBooty 5y agoAt this point, I'm starting to think somebody could turn this into a viable business model. An app/site where extreme performance is literally the unique selling point. "It's like $POPULAR_APPLICATION, except it loads fast like Craigslist"
- otabdeveloper4 5y agoI'd pay for it. No joke, 100 percent serious. Just give me an Outlook web client that doesn't make my laptop freeze for 30 minutes.
- vxNsr 5y ago> No doorslams For those who don't know this means popups asking you to download the app or sign up for the newsletter
- cortesoft 5y agoMan those text colors are pretty awful though.
- twic 5y agoAlso the yellow background, randomly changing font size, and use of underline. Definitely has that authentic Geocities feel, though.
- ecf 5y agoReally? I found it impossible to read on mobile.
- codemac 5y agoYou're... you're going to read a ~30k word essay on pizzas, on your phone? That itself seems impossible on mobile, regardless of whether you scroll or swipe or whatever.
- cm2012 5y ago90% of web activity nowadays is done on mobile, including long form article reading. You're the odd one out if you don't. That said I find this article easy to read on mobile.
- dylan604 5y agoyes, poor me for being the odd one out for not having to bend my neck over reading a 4" screen. i much prefer having my screens at a height that does not require me to look down like i'm a hunchback. the only time i see people holding a phone up to their face is on video calls, but that's just vanity not wanting that up angle look. honestly, it's one of the things I've always hated about reading books. i've just never found a comfortable way to read. it definitely has to do with why it takes me longer to read a book than other people.
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- carnitine 5y agoWhat? I regularly read entire books on my phone.
- bserge 5y agoI read 100+ page books on my 6.4" phone regularly...
- robertoandred 5y agoAre you kidding? The line lengths alone are ridiculous. It's awfully designed.
- the_other 5y agoAs a long-term career front-end engineer, I take this sneer personally. I don't know any who think that stuff is a good idea.
- andai 5y agoNo, I'm pretty sure that was serious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28280051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28280051
- leephillips 5y agoSorry for any personal offense; I was partly exaggerating for effect. If you’ve been able create, for a company or organization, a site that eschews all the abuse and annoyances of the modern web, I’d genuinely love to see it. Please supply a link.
- the_other 5y agoNo, I havn’t been able, and that’s the source of my frustration. In a medium or large company, it’s very difficult to get this opinion heard. Layers of decision-making and power plan this out months before hands-on devs get to do much good. In small companies, speed and cost-limiting almost demands we make bad decisions.