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How I Experience Web Today

50 points by noodles_nomore 3y ago

celtoid 3y ago
Needs more pop ups but well done.
not_your_vase 3y ago
Many such cases. Sad!
dravigon 3y ago
accurate
uSoldering 3y ago
How will you keep people on your website unless you hijack the back button, you absolute fool.
ttctciyf 3y ago
An article I want to read is missing support for Reader View which commonly enables me to read TFA without delving into NoScript to enable js for site.com and site-related-cdn.com etc.
solarkraft 3y ago
Wonderful page, I completely agree. Especially the in-page pop-ups are an atrocity that Firefox still hasn't solved, despite having announced plans to do so (any tips are welcome, this shit is unbearable). One thing I like about lobste.rs is that it included archive links. A step further would be one that directly pipes the article through some "reader mode" site.
voytec 3y ago
"Using the Internet for the 1st time" from the "Programmers are also human" YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7NLMwynYg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7NLMwynYg
freediver 3y ago
Only if we let ad-supported business models get away with ruining the web for everyone. There are alternatives.
jokethrowaway 3y ago
Popups and ads are not even a problem nowadays. They are easily blocked. Those EU cookie shenanigans instead are pretty hard to remove. I have 3 extensions and they don't catch nowhere nearly to all of them. Feels like internet before adblocker.
- suddenclarity 3y ago
  Sometimes even worse. The adblock hides them but the site is frozen and broken until you disable the plugin and interact with the cookie notification. At least with banners in the past you became blind to them. Now you're forced to interact with the popups.
- mediumsmart 3y ago
  https://consentomatic.au.dk/ https://consentomatic.au.dk/
pradn 3y ago
This is the sort of malaise that makes generative chat AIs and native mobile apps appealing.
willtemperley 3y ago
Sadly accurate. On HackingWithSwift [1] today I had to add a Safari custom stylesheet to disable animations the developer put under the .pure-evil classname. They knew what they were doing. [1] https://www.hackingwithswift.com/ https://www.hackingwithswift.com/
bluepoint 3y ago
Sarcastic web development deserves to be a genre.
- hammyhavoc 3y ago
  It definitely felt like one 25 years ago.
toadi 3y ago
It is even worse on mobile. When reading "news" There is one sentence on the screen to read. The rest is popups, advertising video. Can't even figure out where the actual article is... Helped me with one thing though. Stopped consuming news. Suddenly I feel more happy and grounded :)
davewasthere 3y ago
Thank you for this. It's almost a perfect template for a site I'm working on. Even had a few 'features' I'd forgotten to include. /s

celtoid 3y ago

Needs more pop ups but well done.

not_your_vase 3y ago

Many such cases. Sad!

dravigon 3y ago

accurate

uSoldering 3y ago

How will you keep people on your website unless you hijack the back button, you absolute fool.

ttctciyf 3y ago

An article I want to read is missing support for Reader View which commonly enables me to read TFA without delving into NoScript to enable js for site.com and site-related-cdn.com etc.

solarkraft 3y ago

Wonderful page, I completely agree. Especially the in-page pop-ups are an atrocity that Firefox still hasn't solved, despite having announced plans to do so (any tips are welcome, this shit is unbearable). One thing I like about lobste.rs is that it included archive links. A step further would be one that directly pipes the article through some "reader mode" site.

voytec 3y ago

"Using the Internet for the 1st time" from the "Programmers are also human" YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7NLMwynYg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7NLMwynYg

freediver 3y ago

Only if we let ad-supported business models get away with ruining the web for everyone. There are alternatives.

jokethrowaway 3y ago

Popups and ads are not even a problem nowadays. They are easily blocked. Those EU cookie shenanigans instead are pretty hard to remove. I have 3 extensions and they don't catch nowhere nearly to all of them. Feels like internet before adblocker.

suddenclarity 3y ago
Sometimes even worse. The adblock hides them but the site is frozen and broken until you disable the plugin and interact with the cookie notification. At least with banners in the past you became blind to them. Now you're forced to interact with the popups.
mediumsmart 3y ago
https://consentomatic.au.dk/ https://consentomatic.au.dk/

pradn 3y ago

This is the sort of malaise that makes generative chat AIs and native mobile apps appealing.

willtemperley 3y ago

Sadly accurate. On HackingWithSwift [1] today I had to add a Safari custom stylesheet to disable animations the developer put under the .pure-evil classname. They knew what they were doing. [1] https://www.hackingwithswift.com/ https://www.hackingwithswift.com/

bluepoint 3y ago

Sarcastic web development deserves to be a genre.

hammyhavoc 3y ago
It definitely felt like one 25 years ago.

toadi 3y ago

It is even worse on mobile. When reading "news" There is one sentence on the screen to read. The rest is popups, advertising video. Can't even figure out where the actual article is... Helped me with one thing though. Stopped consuming news. Suddenly I feel more happy and grounded :)

davewasthere 3y ago

Thank you for this. It's almost a perfect template for a site I'm working on. Even had a few 'features' I'd forgotten to include. /s