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> Isn't Hacker News itself a really great example of a website that successfully uses only very basic html with very, very little styling and fancy extra featur
by notjustanymike 5y ago
> Isn't Hacker News itself a really great example of a website that successfully uses only very basic html with very, very little styling and fancy extra features?
Hacker News is an aesthetic that would be unacceptable to the majority of businesses in the world. The login page alone would cripple sales on any e-commerce site.
- albertshin 5y agowhy do you think that's the case? is it because people will feel 'sketched out' by the bareness and leave?
- notjustanymike 5y agoYes exactly. Stripe built a whole business on this concept by creating an easy to implement, trustable experience for otherwise dodgy looking small shops. Trust is huge, and a sketchy looking form destroys trust.
- hooby 5y agoSo... Are you trying to argue that it's easier today to make an acceptable company website than it was in the 90ies... or that it was easier in the 90ies than it is now?
- notjustanymike 5y agoNeither. I'm arguing that Hacker News is not a good example to use when discussing web development. It's easy to make a site simple when you refuse to implement any features, but that refusal is a luxury most businesses do not have.