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I'd rather have great software and shitty PR than the recent trend of obnoxiously beautiful landing pages for “world-changing” shitty web apps.

by q3k 13y ago

Gigablah 13y ago
I'd settle for great software and an innocuous, professional landing page. Let's have standards, people.
- antocv 13y ago
  libressl.org is the most professional landing page a project could ever have, what more do you want blink tags hero unigs, marketing spots, slideshows?? Every sentence and paragraph on that page is meaningful, unlike _any_ modern web crap app/mvp where visitor has to click and mock about just to find what the hell the page/project is about. Here its in the first sentence and you cant miss it.
  - Semaphor 13y ago
    And they could make it look decent by replacing Comic Sans with Arial, Times or something similarly simple. You can't tell me they used Comic for any reason but to annoy people.
    - sp332 13y ago
      They used Comic to make a joke about annoying hipsters, not to actually annoy anyone.
    - vayarajesh 13y ago
      May be you missed to read the footer of the page.. the last line, Infact they are also trying to make the same point as you said (why not use Arial or Times and get rid of comic sans)
zorbo 13y ago
You can have great software without insulting half the internet and being an immature brat. A beautiful landing page is optional.
- copergi 13y ago
  >You can have great software without insulting half the internet You overestimate how many web hipsters there are. And annoying them is not "being an immature brat". It is precisely to discourage their involvement. Because the mentality behind the web fads are precisely why the entire world of software is layers upon layers of shit stacked on top of each other.
hiphopyo 13y ago
With a PhD in architecture, design and branding, there's something about the extreme simplicity of OpenBSD's web pages that I find really attractive. "Perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away".

I'd rather have great software and shitty PR than the recent trend of obnoxiously beautiful landing pages for “world-changing” shitty web apps.

by q3k 13y ago

I'd rather have great software and shitty PR than the recent trend of obnoxiously beautiful landing pages for “world-changing” shitty web apps.

Gigablah 13y ago

I'd settle for great software and an innocuous, professional landing page. Let's have standards, people.

antocv 13y ago
libressl.org is the most professional landing page a project could ever have, what more do you want blink tags hero unigs, marketing spots, slideshows?? Every sentence and paragraph on that page is meaningful, unlike _any_ modern web crap app/mvp where visitor has to click and mock about just to find what the hell the page/project is about. Here its in the first sentence and you cant miss it.
- Semaphor 13y ago
  And they could make it look decent by replacing Comic Sans with Arial, Times or something similarly simple. You can't tell me they used Comic for any reason but to annoy people.
  - sp332 13y ago
    They used Comic to make a joke about annoying hipsters, not to actually annoy anyone.
  - vayarajesh 13y ago
    May be you missed to read the footer of the page.. the last line, Infact they are also trying to make the same point as you said (why not use Arial or Times and get rid of comic sans)

zorbo 13y ago

You can have great software without insulting half the internet and being an immature brat. A beautiful landing page is optional.

copergi 13y ago
>You can have great software without insulting half the internet You overestimate how many web hipsters there are. And annoying them is not "being an immature brat". It is precisely to discourage their involvement. Because the mentality behind the web fads are precisely why the entire world of software is layers upon layers of shit stacked on top of each other.

hiphopyo 13y ago

With a PhD in architecture, design and branding, there's something about the extreme simplicity of OpenBSD's web pages that I find really attractive. "Perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away".