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The Worst Website Ever

25 points by agluszak 4y ago

johnthuss 4y ago
WOW. This is fantastic. Works for me in desktop Safari! My only recommendation would be to use more broken HTML, but that would probably be a pain to maintain.
binarymax 4y ago
Not even close to as bad as facebook. Also it makes me nostalgic for YTMND
edibleEnergy 4y ago
needs <map> tags
adamjc 4y ago
I'm guessing this is supposed to be satire hitting back at people nostalgic for the "good old days". It falls short in its mission. It's still more usable than Twitter.
- fckgw 4y ago
  It's just a funny website. It's not that deep.
  - adamjc 4y ago
    > Our goal is bring you the absolute goodly in really not-awful web sight design! We are setting out to NOT BREAK every single design rule imaginable! HOWEVER - BIG DISCLAIMER - we can't bring back ALL the awesome design stuff from the mid 90s - stuff that's FOR BREAUTIFUL GREAT DESIGN - because we have to basic, fundamental stuff right in order for this interweb to WORK CORRECTLY. Know what I mean? I must be reading this differently to you, to me this is ready as heavy snark to the "Geocities was the best" crowd. Maybe I'm reading too much into it
autoexec 4y ago
The text and images on this site are visible without JS enabled, I'd day that alone makes this site better than a lot of others I see.
ilyt 4y ago
Still loads faster than 90% of modern websites. Try again
mfgs 4y ago
It's not that bad, it doesn't even have an accept cookies popup blocking half the screen.
gsmo 4y ago
Does not use <blink> tag... Worst. website. ever. ;-) There used to be a famous site in the 90's documenting such things ... found it! http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/begin.htm http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/begin.htm
brink 4y ago
I miss the old internet. It's a dead horse, I know, but this site makes me feel reminiscent of better days.
agluszak 4y ago
BTW, I literally found it by asking Metaphor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551131) for the worst website ever :)
superkuh 4y ago
Hardly. This website actually shows text and images. A web application written in JS with non-HTML HTML web components doesn't show anything at all. You're lucky to get blank gray placeholders.
Comevius 4y ago
I wouldn't say it's the worst, it's pretty snappy, and have a low energy impact. Reddit's spinner loaders can take forever, and your browser occasionally chokes on all the JavaScript needed for the ghastly SPA experience. Unlike Reddit it works on mobile too.
the_third_wave 4y ago
[Alt] -> View -> Page Style -> No Style and the thing is quite readable. No scrolling needed, no background. It works without Javascript. All in all it is quite a pleasant experience compared to many 'modern' 'designs'.
mrb 4y ago
No popup to ask me to allow cookies. No popup to ask me to sign up for an account. Not requesting my location from the browser. According to Chrome's developer tools network tab it loads 9.4 MB of data, which is less than or comparable to many modern landing pages (nytimes.com: 18.2 MB, amazon.com: 10.0 MB). It's a pretty good first-time visitor experience, I'd say!
legitster 4y ago
One of my favorite "retro" sites is for this restaurant: https://www.dinostomatopie.com/ https://www.dinostomatopie.com/ My favorite part is that it's still a fully functional modern website that's mobile responsive and everything.
tzs 4y ago
A good candidate for worst website ever was Yvette's Bridal, a bridal shop in Florida. It's long gone but there is a copy here [1]. Modern browsers on modern computers probably won't succeed in capturing the full experience that was the site back in the day, because (1) the MIDI file that the site tries to play probably will just download instead of actually automatically play, and (2) if you play that file it will probably sound way better than it did back then due to way better MIDI instrument implementations. [1] https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/ https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/
emptyparadise 4y ago
still loads faster than twitter

25 points by agluszak 4y ago

WOW. This is fantastic. Works for me in desktop Safari! My only recommendation would be to use more broken HTML, but that would probably be a pain to maintain.

binarymax 4y ago

Not even close to as bad as facebook. Also it makes me nostalgic for YTMND

edibleEnergy 4y ago

needs <map> tags

adamjc 4y ago

I'm guessing this is supposed to be satire hitting back at people nostalgic for the "good old days". It falls short in its mission. It's still more usable than Twitter.

fckgw 4y ago
It's just a funny website. It's not that deep.
- adamjc 4y ago
  > Our goal is bring you the absolute goodly in really not-awful web sight design! We are setting out to NOT BREAK every single design rule imaginable! HOWEVER - BIG DISCLAIMER - we can't bring back ALL the awesome design stuff from the mid 90s - stuff that's FOR BREAUTIFUL GREAT DESIGN - because we have to basic, fundamental stuff right in order for this interweb to WORK CORRECTLY. Know what I mean? I must be reading this differently to you, to me this is ready as heavy snark to the "Geocities was the best" crowd. Maybe I'm reading too much into it

autoexec 4y ago

The text and images on this site are visible without JS enabled, I'd day that alone makes this site better than a lot of others I see.

ilyt 4y ago

Still loads faster than 90% of modern websites. Try again

mfgs 4y ago

It's not that bad, it doesn't even have an accept cookies popup blocking half the screen.

gsmo 4y ago

Does not use <blink> tag... Worst. website. ever. ;-) There used to be a famous site in the 90's documenting such things ... found it! http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/begin.htm http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/begin.htm

brink 4y ago

I miss the old internet. It's a dead horse, I know, but this site makes me feel reminiscent of better days.

agluszak 4y ago

BTW, I literally found it by asking Metaphor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551131) for the worst website ever :)

superkuh 4y ago

Hardly. This website actually shows text and images. A web application written in JS with non-HTML HTML web components doesn't show anything at all. You're lucky to get blank gray placeholders.

Comevius 4y ago

I wouldn't say it's the worst, it's pretty snappy, and have a low energy impact. Reddit's spinner loaders can take forever, and your browser occasionally chokes on all the JavaScript needed for the ghastly SPA experience. Unlike Reddit it works on mobile too.

the_third_wave 4y ago

[Alt] -> View -> Page Style -> No Style and the thing is quite readable. No scrolling needed, no background. It works without Javascript. All in all it is quite a pleasant experience compared to many 'modern' 'designs'.

mrb 4y ago

No popup to ask me to allow cookies. No popup to ask me to sign up for an account. Not requesting my location from the browser. According to Chrome's developer tools network tab it loads 9.4 MB of data, which is less than or comparable to many modern landing pages (nytimes.com: 18.2 MB, amazon.com: 10.0 MB). It's a pretty good first-time visitor experience, I'd say!

legitster 4y ago

One of my favorite "retro" sites is for this restaurant: https://www.dinostomatopie.com/ https://www.dinostomatopie.com/ My favorite part is that it's still a fully functional modern website that's mobile responsive and everything.

tzs 4y ago

A good candidate for worst website ever was Yvette's Bridal, a bridal shop in Florida. It's long gone but there is a copy here [1]. Modern browsers on modern computers probably won't succeed in capturing the full experience that was the site back in the day, because (1) the MIDI file that the site tries to play probably will just download instead of actually automatically play, and (2) if you play that file it will probably sound way better than it did back then due to way better MIDI instrument implementations. [1] https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/ https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/

emptyparadise 4y ago

still loads faster than twitter