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Maybe, it's just me - I miss the good old days when sites didn't have anything to do with react or similar. Everything was just plain old hyperlinks and some ba

by neya 3y ago

Maybe, it's just me - I miss the good old days when sites didn't have anything to do with react or similar. Everything was just plain old hyperlinks and some basic JS. I am not even talking about the 90s, just look at what Facebook used to be in its early days - such a simple UI, just based off of hyperlinks, very basic JS. That simplicity alone made it such a joy to use. Today, I don't even feel like logging into Facebook, because a fucking dropdown menu for a post (which barely has 4-5 options) is a Component that is loaded via AJAX. This is not even an overstatement. I miss the simplicity of the web.

lancesells 3y ago
I don't think it's just you. Plain hyperlinks coupled with modern connections and equipment feels fast and easy. You click and a page appears. With JS apps they just feel heavy and almost buggy even when it is just a page of text with links. Maybe I'm just in adt and marketing ech too much but it's almost like I can't be too fast on clicking thing otherwise things get fucked up and lose their states.
andix 3y ago
I miss the good old days without the internet.
Tommah 3y ago
I was always surprised that a bunch of people looked at Facebook's website and said, yeah, I want their code to be the next big JS framework. Facebook has behaved for me for the past year or so, but for years prior to that, visiting their site was just an exercise in frustration for me. It was mainly because of components that remained in the gray loading state but never loaded. The messaging window used to do that for me about 50% of the time. Whenever I visited Facebook, I used to instinctively put my fingers over Ctrl-R in case I had to reload. Also, one time, they managed to deploy code that broke form submissions under Firefox but not Chrome. I would be more understanding if it dealt with some cutting-edge features of HTML, but these are HTML forms. Mosaic had support for them in 1993.

by neya 3y ago

lancesells 3y ago

I don't think it's just you. Plain hyperlinks coupled with modern connections and equipment feels fast and easy. You click and a page appears. With JS apps they just feel heavy and almost buggy even when it is just a page of text with links. Maybe I'm just in adt and marketing ech too much but it's almost like I can't be too fast on clicking thing otherwise things get fucked up and lose their states.

andix 3y ago

I miss the good old days without the internet.

Tommah 3y ago

I was always surprised that a bunch of people looked at Facebook's website and said, yeah, I want their code to be the next big JS framework. Facebook has behaved for me for the past year or so, but for years prior to that, visiting their site was just an exercise in frustration for me. It was mainly because of components that remained in the gray loading state but never loaded. The messaging window used to do that for me about 50% of the time. Whenever I visited Facebook, I used to instinctively put my fingers over Ctrl-R in case I had to reload. Also, one time, they managed to deploy code that broke form submissions under Firefox but not Chrome. I would be more understanding if it dealt with some cutting-edge features of HTML, but these are HTML forms. Mosaic had support for them in 1993.