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Reef3  ·  3484 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

See my earlier rant:

It's all over engineered but nothing works, simple but obfuscated and incomprehensible. That's not even getting into all the garbage ads and "SHARE MEEE" buttons on websites.

Now I open Chrome and go to my bookmark manager and I get tiles of ALL of my bookmarks on one screen. My folders are there, but there isn't a way to see only the bookmarks that aren't in folders, they are mixed in with all the others. Thanks Google, what was previously usable is now not, but it has more colors, so there's that guess. ugh.

The Evernote web beta is frustrating too. It looks nicer, less distracting. However, everything is constantly resizing, disappearing, popping up, features I don't know about are hidden.

I appreciate good design, I like when things look clean and get out of my way, I like new approaches. I run linux on one of my machines and generally really like Gnome 3. The web though... ugh.





Kaius  ·  3484 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So i am a developer and i spend a lot of time working on web uis so i have some interest in this area from the non-user side of the screen.

I think a lot of this new ui crap is similar to what you see with toothpaste, they perfected it years ago but markets value change and hype. Unchanging things can be viewed as stagnant. Hence you see an emergence of crap experiences.

Reef3  ·  3484 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I appreciate good web design, but when I'm feeling grumpy I sometimes just wish every website was like Berkshire Hathaway's.

thenewgreen  ·  3484 days ago  ·  link  ·  
ironpotato  ·  3478 days ago  ·  link  ·  

IMO that's how the internet should look... Can we go back to BBSs?