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I thoroughly enjoyed this. I kind of agree. Of course it's not quite as binary as 1990s = good / 2020s = bad, but this article does resonate fully with my mos
by tailspin2019 5y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this. I kind of agree.
Of course it's not quite as binary as 1990s = good / 2020s = bad, but this article does resonate fully with my most cynical side.
I'm surprised there was no mention of cookie banners (unless I missed it).
> Although Zuckerberg and his merry band of wankers have a lot to answer for, the death of web 1.0 and the humble personal blog is not their fault alone. Search plays a huge part in this shit show too.
I like this guy.
- kevq 5y agoThere was SO MUCH more I wanted to mention. Cookie banners being one of them, but I figured it was long enough as it was. I will likely add more to it in the future though.
- tailspin2019 5y agoUnderstood. Where do you stop! BTW your personal site is superb. A really impressive balance of design and usability.
- kevq 5y agoThank you. That’s so kind.
- BoxOfRain 5y ago>Search plays a huge part in this shit show too. Is this not something we (ie 'people on HN with the appropriate skill sets who are miffed at the state of the web') are actually in a position to do something about? Maybe we need a search engine that's specifically there to index sites that aren't aggressively monetised, or even excludes commercial web content altogether. We'd need some heuristics to figure out how heavily monetised a site is and obviously we'd want to favour self-hosted sites and forums rather than centralised blogging platforms and things like Reddit. This wouldn't be aimed at replacing DDG or other generalised search engines, it'd just scratch that itch of 'where do I find web 1.0 style content that's not endless ad-ridden cruft and SEO spam?'.