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Agree. I feel like I've heard so many comments recently that the web looks so boring, and people miss the old fun of the early web. And people who miss the web

by SamBam 5y ago

Agree. I feel like I've heard so many comments recently that the web looks so boring, and people miss the old fun of the early web. And people who miss the web of the 90s and early Oughts are by definition not Gen Z... I'm excited for a bit of bang and pop and messiness and individuality to come back. With it, I hope for return of websites. You can't display individuality on an endless scrolling feed of social media.

z3c0 5y ago
I started out a little curmudgeonly about the style, but was won over by Persona 5: https://www.atlus.com/persona5/home.html https://www.atlus.com/persona5/home.html It's messy, chaotic, and feels like something from the late 90's/early 00's, where you'd often see custom web pages using formatted images as elements of the page. But I love it. I can't quite make sense of it, as I adhere pretty strongly to brutalism/minimalism when designing my own content.
- Mezzie 5y ago
  Persona 5 did really well with balancing their line work and colors. The colors are very bold and in your face, but so is some of the strategically placed line work, so you can still visually differentiate everything.
  - function_seven 5y ago
    And there’s still a design language underpinning the site. It’s chaotic and loud and whatever, but the elements are consistent. It’s not random. Still has a theme and a palette. I like it as well.
- Shorel 5y ago
  It looks like a well-designed comic book.
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lowwave 5y ago
yeah and get myspace back as well.
karaterobot 5y ago
I haven't heard nearly as many people wanting a return to maximalist 90s web design. People miss the time when a website wasn't a 3 megabyte download, and didn't pop up a newsletter signup form. They don't (as often) miss the web pages with 100 animated gifs on them, an over the top tiled background, blinking text, and so on. Many more people want the minimalism of a page that gets out of the way and shows you the content you came for, which was (if you like) 90s web design minimalism. That's the motivation all this gopher revival/gemini protocol stuff is about, at least from a design perspective. I'm just trying to say there were different strains of "90s web design" which are not compatible with each other.
- __s 5y ago
  Yeah, I recently made a portfolio site for a friend. Very minimalist: https://christinelopez.ca https://christinelopez.ca It's hand written. This was also an early web thing: no npm build pipeline. I feel a little bad not making the modal view fallback to image-is-a-link when JS is disabled (I also would've opted for no google fonts, but it ultimately isn't my site) Meanwhile another friend built a similar site: https://kaeillustrates.art https://kaeillustrates.art which may have more of that Gen-Z aesthetic (albeit we're millennials, so it doesn't go overboard) & is built on tailwind/react Hopefully minimalist-as-fashion design will go away & minimalist sites can return to being small memory/dependency footprint
  - CobaltFire 5y ago
    I actually really that that site design! One note: can you tag that NSFW or somesuch? Even artistic nudity can be unwelcome and get people in trouble.
  - wrycoder 5y ago
    Surprisingly, his site seemed to load faster for me.
    - __s 5y ago
      That's the thing. Computers have become so fast & bandwidth so wide that the bottleneck is primarily latency
nyanpasu64 5y ago
https://heckscaper.com/plugins/ https://heckscaper.com/plugins/ and https://heckscaper.com/aminals/deuteronomy/ https://heckscaper.com/aminals/deuteronomy/ (warning: semi-NSFW) is a powerful aesthetic of loud colorful idiosyncratic individuality, which makes any of the websites or software I've tried building pale in comparison.
bearbearbear 5y ago

by SamBam 5y ago

z3c0 5y ago

I started out a little curmudgeonly about the style, but was won over by Persona 5: https://www.atlus.com/persona5/home.html https://www.atlus.com/persona5/home.html It's messy, chaotic, and feels like something from the late 90's/early 00's, where you'd often see custom web pages using formatted images as elements of the page. But I love it. I can't quite make sense of it, as I adhere pretty strongly to brutalism/minimalism when designing my own content.

Mezzie 5y ago
Persona 5 did really well with balancing their line work and colors. The colors are very bold and in your face, but so is some of the strategically placed line work, so you can still visually differentiate everything.
- function_seven 5y ago
  And there’s still a design language underpinning the site. It’s chaotic and loud and whatever, but the elements are consistent. It’s not random. Still has a theme and a palette. I like it as well.
Shorel 5y ago
It looks like a well-designed comic book.

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lowwave 5y ago

yeah and get myspace back as well.

karaterobot 5y ago

I haven't heard nearly as many people wanting a return to maximalist 90s web design. People miss the time when a website wasn't a 3 megabyte download, and didn't pop up a newsletter signup form. They don't (as often) miss the web pages with 100 animated gifs on them, an over the top tiled background, blinking text, and so on. Many more people want the minimalism of a page that gets out of the way and shows you the content you came for, which was (if you like) 90s web design minimalism. That's the motivation all this gopher revival/gemini protocol stuff is about, at least from a design perspective. I'm just trying to say there were different strains of "90s web design" which are not compatible with each other.

__s 5y ago
Yeah, I recently made a portfolio site for a friend. Very minimalist: https://christinelopez.ca https://christinelopez.ca It's hand written. This was also an early web thing: no npm build pipeline. I feel a little bad not making the modal view fallback to image-is-a-link when JS is disabled (I also would've opted for no google fonts, but it ultimately isn't my site) Meanwhile another friend built a similar site: https://kaeillustrates.art https://kaeillustrates.art which may have more of that Gen-Z aesthetic (albeit we're millennials, so it doesn't go overboard) & is built on tailwind/react Hopefully minimalist-as-fashion design will go away & minimalist sites can return to being small memory/dependency footprint
- CobaltFire 5y ago
  I actually really that that site design! One note: can you tag that NSFW or somesuch? Even artistic nudity can be unwelcome and get people in trouble.
- wrycoder 5y ago
  Surprisingly, his site seemed to load faster for me.
  - __s 5y ago
    That's the thing. Computers have become so fast & bandwidth so wide that the bottleneck is primarily latency

nyanpasu64 5y ago

https://heckscaper.com/plugins/ https://heckscaper.com/plugins/ and https://heckscaper.com/aminals/deuteronomy/ https://heckscaper.com/aminals/deuteronomy/ (warning: semi-NSFW) is a powerful aesthetic of loud colorful idiosyncratic individuality, which makes any of the websites or software I've tried building pale in comparison.

bearbearbear 5y ago