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I completely disagree with you. Should we go back to 90s website design just because users didn't ask for modern design practices? Thunderbird's calendar redes

I completely disagree with you. Should we go back to 90s website design just because users didn't ask for modern design practices? Thunderbird's calendar redesign brings it in line with what customers expect from a calendar app and make it more user friendly.

qu4z-2 4y ago
Oh god, can we? Please?
ajsnigrutin 4y ago
> I completely disagree with you. Should we go back to 90s website design just because users didn't ask for modern design practices? So, a bunch of text with the content you want/need and a photo? And we replaced that with multi-megabyte javascripts, autoplaying video ads, floating bars, breaking infinite scroll, breaking ajax, refresh that returns you to another page, not-working "back" buttons, popups asking to signup for a newsletter, to register, to fill out a survey, cookie popups, a bunch of sliders to disable all of them, notificiation request popups, location requests, etc? Yeah, i like even this: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ a lot more than: https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/ https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/
- tomtheelder 4y ago
  There were plenty of terrible, unusable sites in the 90s, and there are tons of great ones now. People look back with crazy rose tinted glasses at these sorts of things.
  - ajsnigrutin 4y ago
    cnn.com is ~23 megabytes today. https://twitter.com/elonmusk https://twitter.com/elonmusk is 8.5mb, two bottom bars (accept cookies and login/signin), and after scrolling a page and a half down, i get a popup forcing me to login/signup. Even relatively empty google is 1.8mb This page (HN) is one of the few, that are not bloated, and allow you to read stuff without giving your personal data.
pmontra 4y ago
> Should we go back to 90s website design just because users didn't ask for modern design practices? At least for news sites yes, please.
- tintor 4y ago
  news.ycombinator.com uses 90s website design and works great
torstenvl 4y ago
Yes. Emphatically yes. https://isp.netscape.com/ https://isp.netscape.com/
gsich 4y ago
Is Thunderbird a website? SerenityOS has a better UI than all other Linux distributions. 90s inspired. So yes I guess?
- kaszanka 4y ago
  Remarkably, SerenityOS is actually an independent OS with its own kernel, not a Linux distribution.
- tomtheelder 4y ago
  Only if you are nostalgic for that sort of thing. It's not actually any better to use than basically any other distro I've tried.
  - gsich 4y ago
    Not necessarily. The space waste in "modern" distros is insane. Not only Linux DEs are to blame here, Windows does it to (sometimes). Probably all stemming form the handicapped mobile interfaces.
Finnucane 4y ago
>Should we go back to 90s website design You mean, like the one we are all reading right now?
bashinator 4y ago
Please, yes.

qu4z-2 4y ago

Oh god, can we? Please?

ajsnigrutin 4y ago

> I completely disagree with you. Should we go back to 90s website design just because users didn't ask for modern design practices? So, a bunch of text with the content you want/need and a photo? And we replaced that with multi-megabyte javascripts, autoplaying video ads, floating bars, breaking infinite scroll, breaking ajax, refresh that returns you to another page, not-working "back" buttons, popups asking to signup for a newsletter, to register, to fill out a survey, cookie popups, a bunch of sliders to disable all of them, notificiation request popups, location requests, etc? Yeah, i like even this: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ a lot more than: https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/ https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

tomtheelder 4y ago
There were plenty of terrible, unusable sites in the 90s, and there are tons of great ones now. People look back with crazy rose tinted glasses at these sorts of things.
- ajsnigrutin 4y ago
  cnn.com is ~23 megabytes today. https://twitter.com/elonmusk https://twitter.com/elonmusk is 8.5mb, two bottom bars (accept cookies and login/signin), and after scrolling a page and a half down, i get a popup forcing me to login/signup. Even relatively empty google is 1.8mb This page (HN) is one of the few, that are not bloated, and allow you to read stuff without giving your personal data.

pmontra 4y ago

> Should we go back to 90s website design just because users didn't ask for modern design practices? At least for news sites yes, please.

tintor 4y ago
news.ycombinator.com uses 90s website design and works great

torstenvl 4y ago

Yes. Emphatically yes. https://isp.netscape.com/ https://isp.netscape.com/

gsich 4y ago

Is Thunderbird a website? SerenityOS has a better UI than all other Linux distributions. 90s inspired. So yes I guess?

kaszanka 4y ago
Remarkably, SerenityOS is actually an independent OS with its own kernel, not a Linux distribution.
tomtheelder 4y ago
Only if you are nostalgic for that sort of thing. It's not actually any better to use than basically any other distro I've tried.
- gsich 4y ago
  Not necessarily. The space waste in "modern" distros is insane. Not only Linux DEs are to blame here, Windows does it to (sometimes). Probably all stemming form the handicapped mobile interfaces.

Finnucane 4y ago

>Should we go back to 90s website design You mean, like the one we are all reading right now?

bashinator 4y ago

Please, yes.