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Gallery of Simple Websites

93 points by sarimkx 3y ago

politelemon 3y ago
> No overly animated content. > No scroll jacking. > No excessive storytelling. Fine to call me cynical on this, I don't think this is a gallery of simple sites in the 'appreciative' sense. There are many, many websites which would fit these criteria listed and none are listed. Looking through the featured sites, it appears to be a curated list of promotional content under the guise of something else. You can tell because most of them are what digital designers link to from their CVs, to stand out (and ironically they look very similar to each other). Most of the remaining ones are ads for products, pretty much. The other main giveaway is the ?ref as you follow the links. IMO this is a linkfarm without actually interesting content.
- rapnie 3y ago
  It is a curated collection of their own portfolio looks like. You can see it when doing "view source" on them.
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- robador 3y ago
  I nearly skipped this site because of your comment, but I'm glad I didn't. Indeed very cynical.
gatinsama 3y ago
This one brings joy. Thanks. Not that the internet should lack creativity and animation, but sometimes it distracts from the goal.
- nomemory 3y ago
  Try this: https://explore.marginalia.nu/view https://explore.marginalia.nu/view Or if you like a blog or a site, you could find similar ones with this link: https://explore2.marginalia.nu/ https://explore2.marginalia.nu/ I also started to maintain a blogroll with minimalist and interesting blogs: https://www.andreinc.net/blogroll/ https://www.andreinc.net/blogroll/
  - sarimkx 3y ago
    Thank you for sharing. Love exploring personal blogs and websites!
SushiHippie 3y ago
See also: https://512kb.club/ https://512kb.club/ And: https://1mb.club/ https://1mb.club/ These website are either less than 512kb or 1MB in size.
- refactor_master 3y ago
  The whole concept is severely flawed. They’re mostly just plain text blogs or link fronts to things that are definitely not 512 kb. Many of them link to GitHub projects. Is GitHub a 512 kb no-JS static website? I don’t think so.
- Lyngbakr 3y ago
  I love these because it feels like the constraints imposed by size has encouraged folks to be creative. And there's a fair bit of diversity among the sites. As much as I think that minimal black text on a white background can be quite elegant, there are so many sites that follow this pattern in the original link that they end up eliciting little more than a shrug from me.
- tamimio 3y ago
  https://250kb.club https://250kb.club
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Apocryphon 3y ago
As much as I like no-frills pre-Web 2.0 bells and whistles websites like the ones submitted to Wiby, these ain’t it. Moreover, the minimalism these sites have don’t look particularly remarkable- they all have that Medium aesthetic. Or the look of seed stage / stealth startup sites.
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robador 3y ago
I greatly enjoyed this, there's some real gems and creativity in there if you're into minimalistic design. I particularly enjoyed the Norma graphic design studio website [1], which is not only aesthetically appealing to me, but also has some thought provoking content on design aesthetics itself. [1] https://normadesign.it/en/ https://normadesign.it/en/
HermanMartinus 3y ago
Pretty much any blog on Bear Blog would qualify for this list https://bearblog.dev https://bearblog.dev
tamimio 3y ago
Interesting, I like minimalist sites with no need to js and I submitted my personal one because why not, but I also like very well done js/three.js one, the other day I stumbled upon some very nice ones like https://chartogne-taillet.com https://chartogne-taillet.com and another one with a lego world when you scroll down, but can’t find the link.

93 points by sarimkx 3y ago

> No overly animated content. > No scroll jacking. > No excessive storytelling. Fine to call me cynical on this, I don't think this is a gallery of simple sites in the 'appreciative' sense. There are many, many websites which would fit these criteria listed and none are listed. Looking through the featured sites, it appears to be a curated list of promotional content under the guise of something else. You can tell because most of them are what digital designers link to from their CVs, to stand out (and ironically they look very similar to each other). Most of the remaining ones are ads for products, pretty much. The other main giveaway is the ?ref as you follow the links. IMO this is a linkfarm without actually interesting content.

rapnie 3y ago
It is a curated collection of their own portfolio looks like. You can see it when doing "view source" on them.
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robador 3y ago
I nearly skipped this site because of your comment, but I'm glad I didn't. Indeed very cynical.

gatinsama 3y ago

This one brings joy. Thanks. Not that the internet should lack creativity and animation, but sometimes it distracts from the goal.

nomemory 3y ago
Try this: https://explore.marginalia.nu/view https://explore.marginalia.nu/view Or if you like a blog or a site, you could find similar ones with this link: https://explore2.marginalia.nu/ https://explore2.marginalia.nu/ I also started to maintain a blogroll with minimalist and interesting blogs: https://www.andreinc.net/blogroll/ https://www.andreinc.net/blogroll/
- sarimkx 3y ago
  Thank you for sharing. Love exploring personal blogs and websites!

SushiHippie 3y ago

See also: https://512kb.club/ https://512kb.club/ And: https://1mb.club/ https://1mb.club/ These website are either less than 512kb or 1MB in size.

refactor_master 3y ago
The whole concept is severely flawed. They’re mostly just plain text blogs or link fronts to things that are definitely not 512 kb. Many of them link to GitHub projects. Is GitHub a 512 kb no-JS static website? I don’t think so.
Lyngbakr 3y ago
I love these because it feels like the constraints imposed by size has encouraged folks to be creative. And there's a fair bit of diversity among the sites. As much as I think that minimal black text on a white background can be quite elegant, there are so many sites that follow this pattern in the original link that they end up eliciting little more than a shrug from me.
tamimio 3y ago
https://250kb.club https://250kb.club

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Apocryphon 3y ago

As much as I like no-frills pre-Web 2.0 bells and whistles websites like the ones submitted to Wiby, these ain’t it. Moreover, the minimalism these sites have don’t look particularly remarkable- they all have that Medium aesthetic. Or the look of seed stage / stealth startup sites.

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robador 3y ago

I greatly enjoyed this, there's some real gems and creativity in there if you're into minimalistic design. I particularly enjoyed the Norma graphic design studio website [1], which is not only aesthetically appealing to me, but also has some thought provoking content on design aesthetics itself. [1] https://normadesign.it/en/ https://normadesign.it/en/

HermanMartinus 3y ago

Pretty much any blog on Bear Blog would qualify for this list https://bearblog.dev https://bearblog.dev

tamimio 3y ago

Interesting, I like minimalist sites with no need to js and I submitted my personal one because why not, but I also like very well done js/three.js one, the other day I stumbled upon some very nice ones like https://chartogne-taillet.com https://chartogne-taillet.com and another one with a lego world when you scroll down, but can’t find the link.