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This comes across a little like "get off my lawn", but you got to admit, the web has gotten pretty awful in the last few years. I enjoy my time online less and

This comes across a little like "get off my lawn", but you got to admit, the web has gotten pretty awful in the last few years. I enjoy my time online less and less as more content is stuffed into single-page app walled gardens that load massive quantities of cruft, ads, and tracking code. I almost preferred the flash-era. It seems that the goal of the web as being user-centric has taken the back seat to trying to convince the user that they're just a passive recipient of crafted experiences whose only purpose is to click ads or open their wallet.

thecopy 11y ago
>I enjoy my time online less and less as more content is stuffed into single-page app walled gardens that load massive quantities of cruft, ads, and tracking code. I almost preferred the flash-era. Agreed. I have noticed that I avoid heavy sites and prefer light static HTML sites with server side rendered content. For example, when I go to Reddit i always check the url of a link before i decide to click it, if it is a "magazine" site or "engadget" site or the like, i won't click it.
TheGunner 11y ago
This is a great point and I completely agree, as guff as the internet may have been 10/15 years ago I certainly enjoyed it more
sealthedeal 11y ago
Static HTML, server side rendering, simplicity at its finest.
dntrkv 11y ago
I completely disagree. I think the web has improved in almost every way. Sure, there are shitty content sites whose main goal is to get ad clicks, but those have been around for a long time and the ads have actually become less obnoxious than before. There is so much better content nowadays presented in much cleaner and focused layouts. And the UX of most websites has improved dramatically. Look at sites like YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Vine, reddit, Spotify, Soundcloud and compare them to the equivalent sites 5-10 years ago. It's not even a contest, the new sites are better in every way.

thecopy 11y ago

>I enjoy my time online less and less as more content is stuffed into single-page app walled gardens that load massive quantities of cruft, ads, and tracking code. I almost preferred the flash-era. Agreed. I have noticed that I avoid heavy sites and prefer light static HTML sites with server side rendered content. For example, when I go to Reddit i always check the url of a link before i decide to click it, if it is a "magazine" site or "engadget" site or the like, i won't click it.

TheGunner 11y ago

This is a great point and I completely agree, as guff as the internet may have been 10/15 years ago I certainly enjoyed it more

sealthedeal 11y ago

Static HTML, server side rendering, simplicity at its finest.

dntrkv 11y ago

I completely disagree. I think the web has improved in almost every way. Sure, there are shitty content sites whose main goal is to get ad clicks, but those have been around for a long time and the ads have actually become less obnoxious than before. There is so much better content nowadays presented in much cleaner and focused layouts. And the UX of most websites has improved dramatically. Look at sites like YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Vine, reddit, Spotify, Soundcloud and compare them to the equivalent sites 5-10 years ago. It's not even a contest, the new sites are better in every way.