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Band websites used to be very much about an art experience and very little about conveying any kinds of facts. Back in the early 2000s homepages of artists lik

• thfuran 3y ago
  That was a time before almost everyone got almost all their information about everything from the internet.
• cxr 3y ago
  > homepages of artists like Radiohead were quite avant-garde and you’d be lucky to learn anything really You can shorten this by eliminating the "of artists like Radiohead" from the phrasing, and it will still be true of many businesses. You'd think that when an organization shells out money to someone so they'll grab a domain name and set up a site for them, it would be for the org to have a depository for their content just like TBL intended—and they can piggyback off the ubiquity of the Web so those resources are retrievable/accessible with pretty low friction. Weirdly, a whole industry of people specializing in e.g. Wordpress or CSS-framework-du-jour have managed to pull some sleight of hand so that the world at large doesn't have expectations that are anything like that in mind and instead thinks that the purpose should rather be little more than something like a visually stunning brochure (or billboard) that's already out of date the day it's published—and everything the business relies on to actually operate and communicate will happen either through Facebook or is created in a facsimile of a 90s-style office suite and gets shuttled around via email or Google Drive (or simply never leaves the machine where it was created). Pretty weird fuckin' milieu (and expensive), if we're being frank.