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Every Fucking Website (2020)
- polishdude20 1mo agoEven my back button was hijacked for a second. Nice attention to detail!
- s08148692 1mo agoIt's a bit 2025. Needs a scroll hijack background animation and cursor effects to be up to date for 2026
- cg5280 1mo agoSo many websites do popups and it feels so anti-user. Maybe I get unusually annoyed, but I do not need a Gemini popup ad in Google Docs. Just let me do what I came to the website to do!
- andai 1mo agoTrump 2020! I hate puppies!
- spottedmarley 1mo agoNo endless scroll? What the hell am I supposed do I do with my mouse wheel?? Useless!
- hectdev 1mo agoNeeds a scroll that becomes a full page ad that when you scroll pass becomes the same ad but 1/3rd the page
- freudia 1mo agoDon't give them ideas... LoL
- NetMageSCW 1mo agoThat is already deployed to real web sites.
- bigbuppo 1mo agoAnd if you scroll back up the content above is completely changed to something else.
- frollogaston 1mo agoIf the website is for some product that's trying to look fancy, the scroll doesn't actually scroll but moves through some insanely laggy animation
- programmarchy 1mo agoReally needs a 20MB video playing in the background of the hero.
- tacodestroyer 1mo agowith an ad overlayed that won't go away
- sidrag22 1mo agothe main thing its missing is random notification bloops to go with that obnoxious chat box in the bottom right.
- rc_kas 1mo agoDamn, yeah this is exactly how I make my websites look.
- peesem 1mo agoinaccurate, i don't have to go three screens deep into a modal to choose only necessary cookies
- nerdawson 1mo agoThe best one now is “Read for free” (give me all the trackers) or join a subscription and you can opt out. Pretty much every news / media site now
- orthoxerox 1mo agoThat one is honest at least, makes you aware that you're the product.
- inigyou 1mo agoI respect it, even though courts keep ruling that it's illegal (because it's not freely given consent if you are giving something in return for it)
- mitchdoogle 1mo agoIf this were true, it would be great, but in my experience, paying for a subscription just emboldens companies to collect more data
- andy99 1mo agoNeeds to autoplay a video which when dismissed just moves to another window and continues playing. With sound.
- RivieraKid 1mo agoThe cookie thing, I assume it's EU-only, is an example of the EU policy making process being fundamentally broken in some way. If you create a flawed policy and don't fix it many years after it's very visibly obvious that it's a bad policy, something is really wrong.
- sghiassy 1mo agoIt’s an EU law, but it impacts us all in America as well… because you know, every fucking website
- mnewme 1mo agoIt is not an EU law. Nowhere in GDPR are cookie banners mandated. Actually big tech is to blame: https://killthecookiebanner.eu/ https://killthecookiebanner.eu/
- mr_mitm 1mo agoThe cookie disaster is thanks to the ePrivacy Directive, which came before GDPR: - https://www.edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/subjects/eprivacy-directive_en https://www.edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/subjects... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive
- mnewme 1mo agowe could have settled on privacy compliant tracking without cookies, which is possible or use browser preferences and respect those (which would be perfectly legal)
- dijit 1mo agoit's an example of malicious compliance by some, and herd mentality by others. I had a discussion with my CFO about removing the cookie banner from our website (because we don't set any tracking cookies, and cookies for things like login are exempted) and he said "yeah, but it makes the site seem less legitimate.
- fantasizr 1mo agoit's funny sometimes there will be an archived espn.com (like this https://proxy.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/030418 https://proxy.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/030418) and it's hard to argue the web was not better like this, i.e. readable
- gib444 1mo agoBecause it works (AIUI "I agree" gets people to give explicit consent with good success and the subscribe modals are quite effective too)
- WarmWash 1mo agoLoaded way too fast and is way too responsive. Also when I checked NoScript, it's only loading js from lxe.github.io I expect there to be at minimum 8 domains, but often 12-18.
- anygivnthursday 1mo agoAnd needs some kind of loop that retries endlessly to make the AdBlock counter go brrr
- boomlinde 1mo agoAll buttons and links need to shift around for a good 10 seconds before the page settles.
- ModernMech 1mo agoI was waiting for the overlay that hides the content until you turn off your ad blocker. Which of course is a trap because as soon as you do it covers the content in ads.
- amarant 1mo ago..... In such a way that most commonly used button is replaced by an ad 0.001 seconds before you click it
- peterleiser 1mo agoThis. My favorite is when I search for products on a website or app and the results appear in batches, with subsequent results interleaving with the previous results. So when you want to select a particular result and start to move your mouse and click, or move your finger and press, you often end up selecting something unintended because a later result pops into the location.
- andypants 1mo agoI do this in the gmail mobile app all the time thanks to their ads injecting themselves in between the emails several seconds late. They must love me, their most engaged ad consumer.
- reality_inspctr 1mo agoNo agents.md?
- Havoc 1mo agoAlso on iPhones Twitter appears to have aligned their privacy reject button with where their open in app overlay appears just a second later so that you hit that instead. Too many people working on evil dark pattern bullshit
- ratelimitsteve 1mo agoI wasn't asked for my location, notifications, camera permissions or to log in. This is, regrettably, still better than most recipe websites I visit.
- messh 1mo ago[flagged]
- kwertyoowiyop 1mo agoNeeds a Google login popup, required for any site that there is no reason at all to have an account with.
- robertjwebb 1mo agoIt should appear a second after the page seems to have finished loading, so that it hijacks the input if the user is navigating with the keyboard or typing something into a form.
- unselect5917 1mo agoThis post made me irrationally angry. Man, I need to unplug.
- m3047 1mo agoLinkedIn today is so serious about its cookies it can't do proper logout. As long as there's a cookie, I don't know if it's random or what's going on, but if you log out... there's a > 20% chance if you leave for a while and then go back to LI... you're still logged in! If you log out, and then (in Firefox) close the window... oh wait, you're not really logged out. Try again. If you log out in Firefox, wait until the window is quiet, then delete the cookie... LinkedIn creates a new cookie... which still sometimes logs you back in but not as often. Opening a new window, deleting the LinkedIn window (fuck watever it's doing), and THEN delete the cookie in the NEW window... then it seems to stay gone at least as of today.
- Dwedit 1mo agoOr even better, something that pretends to be a real "Sign in with Google" button but instead phishes your username and password.
- JKCalhoun 1mo agoNotifications? How about an email popup. My browser will happily auto-populate it.
- malfist 1mo ago
- dorianpruski 1mo agomissing carousel
- heyitsmedotjayb 1mo agoIt needs to present a happy moose to you if you don't use an adblocker
- martythemaniak 1mo agoFor my current project, I tried going with a non-traditional style I personally liked, I call it "Soft Neo Brutalism". You can see it at: http://www.frost-e.com http://www.frost-e.com I generally wanted web 1.0 simplicity, lots of contrast, but also a soft gentle colours and modern vibe. I also have a general design for use in dashboards/apps etc: https://frost-e.com/design-system/ https://frost-e.com/design-system/
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- dangjustintime 1mo agoThis is actually good boilerplate. lol
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- wxw 1mo agoI kinda miss the CSS bootstrap aesthetic.
- lifestyleguru 1mo agoCookie banners are malicious compliance. There are only 1-2 EU countries with quarrelsome predatory lawyers proactively scanning the web. The positives about covid and AI is that we don't hear anymore about blockchain and crypto (well, except one boomer oligarch holding onto it). Just please make the next two big things happen already for God's sake.
- RattlesnakeJake 1mo agoThat "In case you're not aware, there's COVID-19 happening" banner isn't nearly tall nor yellow enough. Given a 6-inch-tall screen, the proper layout would be: +-----------------+ |2" of vestigial | |COVID messaging | +-----------------+ |1.5" of actual | | content | +-----------------+ |2.5 of EU | | cookie banner | +-----------------+ A local utility took it even further during COVID: +---------------------+ |2" of COVID messaging| +---------------------+ |1" of undismissable | | "our app is gone; | | use the mobile site | | that you're on now" | +---------------------+ |0.5" of content | +---------------------+ |2.5" of EU cookie | | banner, despite | | being a US-only corp| +---------------------+
- jasonjayr 1mo agoIt also needs to scroll in after a second or two, and shift the page content down, so you mis-click the wrong link, and end up loading something that takes forever to load and somehow manages to cause the back button to misbehave.
- pbhjpbhj 1mo agoClever people with no morals use that to load ads under your finger, timed to create an inadvertent click. I swear NYT do this in their games app, the play button gets replaced with a subscribe as the late loaded subscribe element shifts the page exactly the amount to put subscribe under your finger. I wonder how well it worked?
- bartread 1mo agoNothing clever about it: it’s a simple and unethical parlour trick. Every news website does it and, in the UK, the local news outlets are amongst the worst. The thing I don’t get: many of these sites are running Google Adsense, amongst other ad networks. Adsense Ts & Cs specifically forbid site behaviour that deliberately causes users to misclick on ads. So why aren’t these sites being banned by Adsense? The answer, I suspect, is follow the money: it seems likely that they bring in too much money for Google to ban them even though they’re overtly and outrageously breaking the rules.
- MBCook 1mo agoEvery paragraph (maybe sentence) needs to fade in as I attempt to scroll. If I can read the first paragraph easily when the page loads (ignoring the pop-ups) then the website is too well designed.
- jedbrooke 1mo agoit’s missing spinners for 5-10 seconds while it loads endless megabytes of javascript doing who knows what. Seriously how did we get to this point? I remember growing up in the 2000’s and all the marketing about computers was “it’s fast!” and “get results instantly!” that kind of thing. Now everything it gated by multiple spinners, then it loads a skeleton, then it partially loads your actual content, then, when you go to click on something, more content loads and the existing content jumps to a new place and you end up clicking on something else, meaning now you have to go back (if they haven’t hijacked the back button), wait for it all to load again, wait for the second “real” load, and then click on what you actually meant to click on in the first place.
- frail_figure 1mo agoJust a quick reminder that you don't need to put up any cookie banners at all if you simply don't track your users in a privacy-invading way.
- _superposition_ 1mo agoThis is perfect.
- tedggh 1mo agoAs feedback, you made that popup way too clean and easy to close. That’s not how it works in reality. You need to make the background transparent and the X so small it’s technically impossible to hit. Also think about adding an ad and a timer and move the popup slightly after N ms so that the user always hits the ad.
- lxe 1mo agoNoted. Will make it worse. Thanks.
- Retr0id 1mo agoBootstrap, what a blast from the past! They just don't make bad websites like they used to.
- wktmeow 1mo agoYea but do you guys remember when we actually needed pop up blockers to avoid having a site spawn like 10 new windows behind the current one, and tabs didn’t really exist yet, and the popups had adult content and sometimes they autoplayed sound/video? Like, internet explorer 6 era? Sometimes I miss those days
- SamBam 1mo agoYou knew you done goofed when the adult site you opened on your family computer was opening new windows faster than you could close them...
- 0xbadcafebee 1mo agoNot a problem; you were on a 28.8k, so the adult banner images would take forever to load, so you could close the pop-ups before they got you in trouble
- monxer 1mo agoEvery Fucking Website not created by Claude. Otherwise it would have a dark gray background with transparant rounded buttons with a neon border.
- lxe 1mo agoThis is from pre-ai era
- morkalork 1mo agoNeeds the floating video thumbnail with auto-play and sound. Also the requests for location and permission to send notifications dialogs in chrome!
- hellojomp 1mo ago[flagged]
- alpha_trion 1mo agoNeeds more jank from a bajillion ads loading. :D Kidding aside, this is hilarious and made my morning
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- jonplackett 1mo agoI made a game about this. You can play it if you want to feel annoyed. https://termsandconditions.game https://termsandconditions.game
- jchw 1mo agoShould load much slower. Also, where is the unrelated autoplaying video that will unmute if you actually click it, that follows your scrolling and only becomes smaller when you dismiss it? Plus, it should probably have text that cuts off letting you know you can have access for just $10/month. Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's that at? edit: Oh shoot! I forgot, too. This modal needs to also ensure there is absolutely no way to scroll. If you could scroll you might be able to accidentally get to the address bar of your browser to fix the URL to xcancel or even close the page, which isn't using the app as you are intended to do. Also, it doesn't attempt to hijack the back button to give me stuff I clearly wanted to see before I leave the page. A lot of work left to do here before it's a "real" website. Although, it has about as much substance as the average website so far, so good work on that.
- sidewndr46 1mo agoNo, it definitely hijacked the back button
- bee_rider 1mo ago> Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's that at? This is the most annoying thing on the internet. There’s a site I’d like to use, but “try the app” takes up the entire page (and appears to be impossible to dismiss?). Actually, is there a way to permanently request the desktop site for all future visits to a domain on iOS? There is no reason to visit this full-page app advertisement.
- quercusa 1mo agoIf the site happens to be a discussion site that starts with 'R', clearing cookies will let you through for a while. In Brave, there's a setting to do so when you leave the page.
- yojo 1mo agoThey still haven’t removed “old.reddit.com”. Replace “www” with “old” on any reddit URL and enjoy a relic from when the internet was less ruined.
- yassa9 1mo agoYea , thank u , I really despite those websites of current web, much JS, colors, much images and animations with mouse, and million fonts , rounded buttons and everything is rounded and "modern" and slow and bloated why cant have we simple websites, small coherent nice color palette to just read and know the needed info ? hackernews is extremely good example suckless: https://suckless.org/sucks/web/ https://suckless.org/sucks/web/ is another brilliant example
- fuzzy_dunlopp 1mo agoSmallWeb ftw!
- improgrammer007 1mo agoI use Brave browser and even that didn’t help.
- tonymet 1mo agoIt’s missing a “we stand with the current thing “ flag and a compliance prompt for community standards. Also 1.5gb of heap allocated minimum
- hbcdbff 1mo agoNot enough AI slop
- clintmcmahon 1mo agoIs the beef with the design or the pop ups, chatbot, banner, etc? If it's the design, not everyone is a web designer so the bootstrap theme is great to get up off the ground. If it's the other stuff then, yeah, totally.
- rob74 1mo ago(2019) * * according to the copyright notice, although, going by the mention of Covid, it could also be 2020?
- duxup 1mo agoCookie banners are a great example of regulation gone wrong. Me having to make a legal agreement with every website is absurd and totally predictable.
- croes 1mo agoThe cookie banner should have the option to change the cookies but you have to deselect the trackers one by one
- JKCalhoun 1mo agoYeah, I hand-rolled my site. Not even Google analytics. I have absolutely no idea if anyone even visits my site. Oh well.
- 1dom 1mo agoNo need to worry, I just visited. Now you know. Seems like the sort of site and person who should have a guestbook - I would have left an appreciative and encouraging comment there, but this will have to do:)
- donatj 1mo agoWe've got the stupid chat bubble at the bottom. We didn't want it, it's like a megabyte of JavaScript. It's some third party service corporate forced on us. I have to imagine a lot of websites are in the same boat, where they're just add crap they don't want to add by higher ups.
- amelius 1mo agoApple.com looks ok. It doesn't have the cookie banner.
- jsharf 1mo agoWe need a special version mocking recipe websites
- motbus3 1mo agoIt should also detect the ad blocker
- trevithick 1mo agoI like it. Reminds me of this: https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/ https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/
- CrzyLngPwd 1mo agoOh I love that!
- inigyou 1mo agoThe confirmation when pressing back was the icing on the cake
- maqp 1mo agoI can't believe I'm not able to buy Every Fucking Website Premium with business focused ads and native advertising masquerading as quasi-educational infotainment. Also where's the sign-up with Spybook?
- freediver 1mo agoAnswer: ads as the main business model running the web since 25 years ago and us accepting the convenience of 'free'. It turns out everything has a price, and in more recent times we started noticing that our time, attention and intelligence not being insulted also has value.
- jmmv 1mo agoSomehow the clicking around reminded me of Windows RG. Go check this old relic if you have never seen it: https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg . Turn the volume up!
- aavci 1mo agoWhere is the ‘sign in with google’ pop up?
- t1234s 1mo agoThe worst patterns: 1) scroll hijacking (this should be a felony) 2) stupid cookie popups/banners 3) useless hero images (clients love them, users hate them)
- 0xbadcafebee 1mo agoNeeds a shopping cart that when you click submit, does nothing, requiring you to open web dev tools to discover the silent 503 error, with no way to report the error. Bonus points for a bank account, credit card or retirement fund
- lxe 1mo agolol
- idopmstuff 1mo agoI started an e-commerce brand on a Shopify site. I swore to myself I would never put up one of those stupid things that pops up "Someone bought X product an hour ago!" messages in the corner of the screen. I ended up trying it. Boosted conversion rate meaningfully. Worth the price I pay in mild self-loathing. Chesterton's popup, I guess.
- frantathefranta 1mo agoOut of all the annoying website things, always thought that one was pretty tame. Almost feels like a spiritual successor to the visit-o-meter. Obviously as long is it doesn't put a (1) on my tab or makes a noise and doesn't steal mouse focus.
- rao-v 1mo agoGenuine curiosity - is the pop up vaguely factual or sort of randomly generated?
- m4tthumphrey 1mo agoAlways randomly generated!
- coldpie 1mo agoYeah. I've written about this a few times, with some suggestions for how to make it marginally less miserable to visit a website: "Take back your web browser screen space with Kill Sticky" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web-browser-screen-space-with-kill-sticky/ https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web... "Quick Tips For Making The Internet Suck Less" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/08/01/tips-for-making-the-internet-suck-less/ https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/08/01/tips-for-making-th... "Web browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-stopped-blocking-pop-ups/ https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-...
- j9feng 1mo agoIf the traffic to the site drops dramatically because of the “features”, we would have seen the features removed already.
- lxe 1mo agoI made this 6 years ago but it still applies today.
- josefritzishere 1mo agoThis is completely accurate. I see it every day.
- dstanko 1mo agoI may be skeptical, so take this with a grain of salt. The transformation happened when someone decided to stop being UI designer, to become UX designer. That wasn't enough, so they came up with XD - experience design. At every step of the way, they introduced more lofty goals for the design to justify the increased importance of themselves.
- gnarlouse 1mo agoWhy would you make this. I feel traumatized.
- 1dom 1mo agoThis feels about 2 - 5 years out of date now. There isn't enough dark theme with slop-neon accents.
- 2b3a51 1mo agoI'm filing a bug report... Steps to reproduce: Open terminal emulator and type; $ w3m https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/ https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/ I can read the same content as I can read in Firefox. What I expected to happen: See content similar to the following; Update your browser Your browser isn't supported any more. To continue your search, upgrade to a recent version. Learn more
- bigbuppo 1mo agoYou must upgrade to IE5 to continue.
- hizyyo 1mo ago[flagged]
- ChrisArchitect 1mo agoA more current version of this: https://everyfuckingwebsite.com/ https://everyfuckingwebsite.com/
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- sublinear 1mo agoNot true. The web is more than blogspam, SaaS, the most desperate cases of ecommerce, and the web versions of legacy newspapers/magazines.
- buzzin__ 1mo agoHow hard could it be to write a greasemonkey script that will send the current html/Javascript from hell to a LLM with a prompt that will ask you which of the detected annoying elements you want to remove, and then will create and install another GM script that is removing those elements from this site, and also invent finglonger as a side effect. A man can dream, though. A man can dream.
- agumonkey 1mo agoit's missing the google sso popup, the close buttons are not anti-pattern enough, and the cookie banner still lets me use the site too much good job though
- dansitu 1mo agoMaybe also it could randomly jump to different vertical scroll positions while you are reading an article?
- snawazzee 1mo agoI knew it wont work but still I tried to enter a message in chat window and click enter. (And it didn't worked)
- nphardon 1mo agoA while back I realized that it was just the browser keeping me on screen when I didn't want to be. I switched to the purely native Safari app on my phone, from a highly customized ad blocking browser, with lots of content filtering. My screen time dropped from like 2 hours a day to like 10 minutes.
- ChipopLeMoral 1mo agoMissing some spammy "article" links with AI generated images.
- charles_f 1mo agoYou forgot the sign-up "CTA" button bold and wide, with a microscopic "Sign-in" button somewhere in the footer.
- hk1337 1mo agoIf it works, keep it. If it doesn't work, remove it.
- TuxPowered 1mo agoEvery Fucking Website 2026: - Paragraphs emerge from the background as you scroll, sometimes only after 3/4 of your screen is empty. - Some paragraphs are hidden until you expand them. You can’t expand more than one at a time. - Horizontal scrolling for some items, like e.g. meal categories in a restaurant. The buttons for the scrolling are different on each site, or are dots you must click on.
- ajam1507 1mo agoNeeds an annoying header that changes size as you scroll.
- bilekas 1mo agoHow will the poor analytics companies pay their poor salaries? And how will people be able to know to advertise to me about a pair of shorts I looked up last month??
- insane_dreamer 1mo agomissing the popup to "SAVE 10% ON YOUR NEXT ORDER" by giving your phone number, with no "No Thanks" button, and the X button to close the popup is almost invisible in the corner so you think there's no way to get rid of it other than entering your number
- phoghed 1mo agoShould request push notification and local network access lol
- chrisjj 1mo agoDid I miss "We share your PPI with 1786 partners" ?
- VCFundedGenYer 1mo agoSome graybeard advice - Any time you need to use a website that doesn't require active cognitive interaction - click the button in your browser that enables Reader View to get the content and strip out everything else. It's not perfect, but it makes the web more usable (especially on mobile, my goodness it's gotten bad). Firefox also has an extension called "Auto Reader View" in which you can set sites to automatically change to that mode.
- steffi_oliver 1mo ago[flagged]
- bigbuppo 1mo agoThe interstitial popup needs to be delayed until about 750ms after the first scroll action for that extra insult.
- mawadev 1mo agoBeautiful engineering, it is modern art. I missed the very slow skeletons in between and the particle webgl stuff
- jdthedisciple 1mo agoneeds more unexpected layout shifts ;)
- Cameri 1mo agoNot enough ads!
- bigbuppo 1mo agoalso didn't yell at me for using an ad blocker.
- donio 1mo agoIn 2026 instead of "Here's some stuff we wrote that you won't read." it's "Here's some slop we couldn't be bothered to write but why don't you read it."
- poetry-leading 1mo agoReminds me of https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/ https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/
- mrmckizzle 1mo agoIt needs a feature that disables the whole page and prevents you from using it if it detects you are using Forefox.
- jere 1mo agomonkey's paw curls
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- smaudet 1mo agoSerious answer: Bootstrap. That framework did more damage to web design than any other framework. Yeah, its nice that you can spin up a page in a second that looks like every other page on the internet, wait a minute... Technical answer: CSS It was a nice idea, and it sure beat hand-designing each and every page (wait a second, weren't/aren't we doing that all over again?). It did/does too much, and was mostly in lieu of a common repository of UI stuff, so people found One Way that it would work reasonably well on most browsers/devices, and so bootstrap was born...
- dcminter 1mo agoThere's some alternate timeline where browsers kept competing on widgets and every website now looks like a native application. I don't know if it would be better or worse.
- trueno 1mo agoI was hanging around during the bootstrap era. It was fine, no i think theres some blend of where UI/UX/marketing that were way overblown that really blitzed all sites into looking the same. Every component framework or helper framework under the sun is barely doing anything different. Shadcn, daisyui, tailwind, all of that.. it's all customizable but people aren't interested in making something fresh and new using bootstrap/daisyui/shadcn/whatever, the components aren't the problem. Anyone could if they took the time and effort put together something pretty unique using any of these, but they don't. Outta the box yeah they are particularly bland (flat buttons and rounded everything literally sucks I'm so tired of it), but it's _what_ the page is and how it's arranged that is reeking with sameness / pointlessness / enshittification. And that abomination is... landing pages. These pages are fkn awful. Career UX/UI folks will defend them, and this just feels like they smoked too much of their own shenanigans. Every SaaS under the sun, hell half the things here that end up with some sort of VC backing... the first thing they do is spin up a nothingburger landing page that says a whole lot of jack diddly squat that all have a familiar feel where everything's centered, there's meaningless bulletpoints and info cards, but no real meat or information that describes what you're after... that feeling = "how do i beat gd level 1 (this landing page) so i can find what im looking for" and yeah. This has bled into documentation spaces as well, somehow rendering documentation (the thing that is supposed to help you get oriented) feel like you can't actually find what you're looking for. UX/UI in the past decade was blown way out of proportion and I can't help but feel like it's been shaped by way too many imperfect half theories / stupid market research and is way too heavily influenced by marketing and adspace to be taken seriously. In general there is certainly a taste for what makes a good UX and that to me is typically a blend of utility and looks-cool. But without any utility everything feels like a goddamn waste of time & I'm mostly assured that websites that sport pages like this have way too many financial strings attached driving their every move. They all try to drive you towards filling out a sales inquiry form. It's ironic and hilarious that a lot of times if I want to learn about some platform or product, the last place I can reliably go to is their own website. These days you just gotta go digging, ask claude to go collect a bunch of user feedback from around the net or something.
- aavci 1mo agoI don't see any answers here with a link to best practices or a grading system or something promoting clean websites. What can be done in this space? You get things rating accessibility, methodologies for building apps but nothing about standards for website quality?
- tonymet 1mo ago[dead]
- tonymet 1mo agoneal.fun did it better
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- zelphirkalt 1mo agoAny web dev reading these comments and understanding what the comments express, should know: If you have built any of these dark patterns and anti-features, the annoyance and loathing expressed here is what you are responsible for, and this is how you made people feel about the website you took part in building. By implementing such stuff, you are personally part of the responsible group of people for making this crap. You personally have managed to make this planet a worse place and make your website shit. Given that these days basically 95% or more of websites push this shit, it is safe to assume, that there are many of such web devs in our midst, who are responsible. Congratulations for ruining the web.
- apple4ever 1mo agoFucking dickovers. The modern web sucks.
- wseqyrku 1mo agoI can ignore all this except for the cookie banner, it is a technical issue and the likes of google in the industry are responsible to solve rather than letting marketing or product get "creative" with it. This is pretty stupid and we all should be embarrassed by the fucking mess that we created for everyone.
- simondanerd 1mo agoThere's a distinct lack of ads, you're not done quite yet.
- CM30 1mo agoLet's not forget the generic images using either corporate memphis or AI. Or the lazy loading that makes it impossible to reach the footer. Or in some cases, numerous videos and animations that have no purpose other than looking flashy, along with a big slideshow/carousel at the top.
- RobLach 1mo agoOnly gotten worse.
- m3047 1mo agoWell that's pathetic, only three new FQDNs. Two of them are on CF, one on AWS. Where are the effing CNAME chains? And this is something which I learned which is surprising to me: github.com resolves to AWS. WTF? GH has its own netname and a /20. It's literally one hop, somehow, from my ISP. WTF? It's not MS and it's this shite? WTF?
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- aspectmin 1mo agoSigh. A good user experience for the web is just out the door isn't it? Max enshittification. Makes me so sad - it could be so much better.
- bookstore-romeo 1mo agovery sorry for the joke, but isn’t every regular website also like this? [1] 1: https://xkcd.com/90/ https://xkcd.com/90/
- skewuo 1mo ago>Scroll >Popup >Close >Popup >Close >GDPR damn
- arun6582 1mo agolol
- Grimblewald 1mo agothe back button hijack on mobile is a nice touch.
- rireads 1mo agoI expected the claude-code style
- arendtio 1mo agoI think the cookie layer is missing the point. I mean, it should say something like, 'Sure thing, we don't just use cookies for our servers, but to track you through half the internet, to know exactly what you want even before you know it. Please feel free to accept it or piss off.' I don't like those lawyers either, but they are not the primary problem. The problems are tracking systems that don't just track you across one website but across multiple sites, like those deployed by Google and Facebook. And since Cambridge Analytica, we know that those are not just hypothetical scenarios and that they actually have an impact on elections and where our society is heading.
- account42 1mo ago> You obviously know what cookies are. If we don't put this here, delighted lawyers from EU and CA will sue us. Not only this is very expensive, there are no browser settings to remove this, since every site does this differently. You voted for this! Also you have to click "I agree" That's just echoing corporate arguments an not good satire.
- queenkjuul 1mo agoThe layout didn't suddenly shift the second i tried to click on something. 5/7