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Pretty sure my mum would love for her recipe websites to fit the entire recipe on screen at once, instead of having to scroll over a gigantic font, interlaced w

Pretty sure my mum would love for her recipe websites to fit the entire recipe on screen at once, instead of having to scroll over a gigantic font, interlaced with 4+ irrelevant pictures of smiling people holding fruits and 2 ad banners, canceling the ubiquitous "we use cokkies balabla.." popup and maybe some full-page ad-overlay. I am also sure she would love these selfsame pages to load instantly when shes accessing them via her old cell phone at my uncles house where reception is bad and the device has to revert to 3G. No, "other" people don't want bloat, tons of adds and "clever designs" (aka. a huge useless picture-banner that contains zero information) either.

fiedzia 5y ago
Great examples. Downloaded size for top 3 sites for recipes: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ - 12MB https://www.jamieoliver.com/ https://www.jamieoliver.com/ - 4.3MB https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/ https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/ - 8.4MB It seems their users didn't wanted them to be so barebone. I am not saying people want bloat, but they won't accept HN-style simplicity. What I'd like to have is good looking sites with no CSS at all, just make them acceptable by default, and a lot of this bloat will simply go away.