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Fuel from the air, website from the era of Flash.

sudobash1 4y ago
I am not a fan of the site either, but apparently some people are: https://www.prometheusfuels.com/news/prometheus-site-of-the-year https://www.prometheusfuels.com/news/prometheus-site-of-the-...
- gizajob 4y ago
  I'd have to go through the whole rigmarole again to read that.
andwaal 4y ago
Love it! Reminds me of a time where every movie, game, band etc. had amazing creative websites like this, often filled with custom games, wallpapers and other cool stuff for a ten year old discovering the World Wide Web for the first time. One example of this that gets mentioned every time are https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
- gizajob 4y ago
  But this doesn't assume ten seconds of my time to load a headache
- bee_rider 4y ago
  It was fun but it did make my laptop fan start.
kmeisthax 4y ago
The website is unusable from an iPad with a Magic Keyboard. It straight up ignores platform scroll and demands that you use the touchscreen because they didn't expect touch devices to have a scroll wheel.
margalabargala 4y ago
It's all part of their plan to be carbon-neutral. If they just implemented their technology as designed, they would be carbon-negative. So they have to cause more carbon to be released, in order to get to break-even. They are crowd-sourcing increasing their carbon footprint via the power requirements to load their website.
systemvoltage 4y ago
At least it is breaking the design monoculture, i.e. 99% of the violet iconed tailwinded SaaS cookie cutters with text set at #CCCCCC that's impossible to read and have zero personality. No one dares to be different anymore.
- mattnewton 4y ago
  This is also nearly impossible for me to read on my iPhone 13, I somehow broke the site by scrolling while it was loading and now it won’t let me browse the page. Reloading it fixes for a bit but it runs like a sick dog.
  - systemvoltage 4y ago
    The point is that it is nearly impossible, but in a different and original way. We're making progress, alright :-).
bryanlarsen 4y ago
Their competitors' website comes from the gopher era. https://terraformindustries.com/ https://terraformindustries.com/
- scythmic_waves 4y ago
  > Why does our website look like this? At TI we believe we can change the world by displacing fossil hydrocarbon production at global scale. Like our website, our machines are simple so we can build millions of them as quickly as possible. Our website embodies our cultural commitment to allocating resources where they solve the most important problems.
throwntoday 4y ago
It's completely broken on my iPhone. Can't scroll, can't click on anything.

I am not a fan of the site either, but apparently some people are: https://www.prometheusfuels.com/news/prometheus-site-of-the-year https://www.prometheusfuels.com/news/prometheus-site-of-the-...

gizajob 4y ago
I'd have to go through the whole rigmarole again to read that.

andwaal 4y ago

Love it! Reminds me of a time where every movie, game, band etc. had amazing creative websites like this, often filled with custom games, wallpapers and other cool stuff for a ten year old discovering the World Wide Web for the first time. One example of this that gets mentioned every time are https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

gizajob 4y ago
But this doesn't assume ten seconds of my time to load a headache
bee_rider 4y ago
It was fun but it did make my laptop fan start.

kmeisthax 4y ago

The website is unusable from an iPad with a Magic Keyboard. It straight up ignores platform scroll and demands that you use the touchscreen because they didn't expect touch devices to have a scroll wheel.

margalabargala 4y ago

It's all part of their plan to be carbon-neutral. If they just implemented their technology as designed, they would be carbon-negative. So they have to cause more carbon to be released, in order to get to break-even. They are crowd-sourcing increasing their carbon footprint via the power requirements to load their website.

systemvoltage 4y ago

At least it is breaking the design monoculture, i.e. 99% of the violet iconed tailwinded SaaS cookie cutters with text set at #CCCCCC that's impossible to read and have zero personality. No one dares to be different anymore.

mattnewton 4y ago
This is also nearly impossible for me to read on my iPhone 13, I somehow broke the site by scrolling while it was loading and now it won’t let me browse the page. Reloading it fixes for a bit but it runs like a sick dog.
- systemvoltage 4y ago
  The point is that it is nearly impossible, but in a different and original way. We're making progress, alright :-).

bryanlarsen 4y ago

Their competitors' website comes from the gopher era. https://terraformindustries.com/ https://terraformindustries.com/

scythmic_waves 4y ago
> Why does our website look like this? At TI we believe we can change the world by displacing fossil hydrocarbon production at global scale. Like our website, our machines are simple so we can build millions of them as quickly as possible. Our website embodies our cultural commitment to allocating resources where they solve the most important problems.

throwntoday 4y ago

It's completely broken on my iPhone. Can't scroll, can't click on anything.