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A site that looks like garbage but works really well is much better than a site that looks good but doesn't work at all.
by Aqueous 13y ago
A site that looks like garbage but works really well is much better than a site that looks good but doesn't work at all.
- frandroid 13y agoIt has worked for Craigslist and eBay for a very long time...
- masklinn 13y agoAnd the early google.
- jackfoxy 13y agoCorrectness is the dog. Everything else is tail. Don't know who said that first, might have been this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg
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- hga 13y agoHmmm, do you really think it looks like "garbage"? I'm a back end developer, don't claim to have much taste in these things, but it strikes me as simple and straightforward, maybe not pretty, but not ugly. And their images: tiny. Home page 32K, the one for individuals and families 26K. The old home page picture that used to be on Healthcare.gov is now gone, but I recall someone saying it, or another picture on the site, weighed in at 1.8M.
- gtaylor 13y agoAs a fellow backend developer, this KY site doesn't look ugly to me. It looks minimal, seems to be pretty easy to get around, and seems to fulfill its purpose very well. It loads incredibly fast, and the text is all easy to understand. I'll take bland and functional over pretty and awkward any day when it's something this important to so many. Whoever did this for KY did a great job, IMO.
- bmelton 13y agoNot that my opinion matters at all, but I do think that it looks like garbage. That said, I agree that whether it looks like garbage or gold, all of that is secondary to whether or not it works correctly, and it seems to (not first-hand knowledge, nor am I a Kentucky resident.)
- alayne 13y agoIt doesn't look like garbage to me https://kyenroll.ky.gov/ https://kyenroll.ky.gov/.