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[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anything more than a plain html website is bourgeois decadence.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sorry sweaty, CSS is reactionary

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I mean, as a professional fullstack developer (so also frontend) there kinda is something to it.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I know this has been posted on jest, but this is slander.

marxists.org is not only perfectly fine, it's a sight to behold and replicate.

Hell actually, if anything I still believe it can be improved because https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ is peak web design and if you think otherwise you're simply wrong.

CSS is bourgeois decadence and JavaScript is fascistic techbro overreach into my computer.

[–] ColonelRevolution@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your service.

[–] ColonelRevolution@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The second I've seen that meme I was 100% sure I would find you in the comments protesting.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

It's just what I do 🫶

[–] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All of them are revisionism because I said so

[–] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No they fucking aren't. Accessibility is important. Security is important. I want to be able to read this in bed, without the lightmode bullshit. I want my websites to be FOSS. The only revisionism is thebestmotherfuckingwebsite.co, fuck JS.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That was a joke lmao

I honestly like how blowback.show looks and the other websites you posted are also good.

Except for JavaScript, I hate it to no end.

CSS is a good tool, and I just don't like it being over done. If a website lacks it, like the original motherfucking website, I tend to use Firefox's reading mode.

[–] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

OP of comment of GitHub link here. I also like RedSails for its minimalist style. A couple more examples I like (not communist but minimalist techie blogs) include this and this.

Also, I believe this guy in Greece (who is currently trying to build a hut as he can longer afford rent) is ~~socialist~~ (never mind, just an anti-communist leftist, but I still like some of his ideas), and he's an emacs user and contributor (as a philosopher who started off with no understanding in technology, interestingly) who made this nice, minimalist website.

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like how red sails shows footnotes.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, it's so convenient and sincere like "Yeah we've got the receipts, wanna see?"

You can easily cross check them without the website having to jump constantly making reading an annoying mess.

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[–] CjkOvPDwQW 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was loving that website until it said it is sarcastic...

motherfuckingwebsite.com is peak design, and that's how I would design my website.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The person may have been sarcastic but I sure ain't. I also was for some really extatic when I visited https://blowback.show/ because I loved their relatively simple website design. It's fucking great.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

yeah, you're not tripping that site is good

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dont know much about web design but the site is probably burdened by being very old. The layout is executed using a combination of classes and CSS but most of what an article needs is baked into the HTML spec these days. For example tags and stuff. There are custom CSSs for the website on GitHub and they turn out to be more complicated than expected because of how the pages are designed.

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[–] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

It's not. Works by various authors have different html formatting that make it very difficult to consistently scrape. Splitting works into several pages makes it impossible to send them to pocket (or FOSS equivalents). It sucks for anything other than reading in their website.

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 year ago
[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LMAO. The libs found you on some post and down voted all your comments.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

it's pretty hilarious that they actually spend time doing that

[–] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this some coding meme that I'm too much of a layman to understand?

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

HTML is like the AK47 of web design. It does the job and respects the user.

Marxists can stop enshittification. Simple HTML websites embody the proletarian spirit.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Letting websites run arbitrary code on your device was a grave mistake

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago

it wasn't a mistake, it was very well planned and executed without most people having a clue

[–] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

under evil communist rule developers are banned from embedding javascript

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's basically making fun of marxists.org having garish UX

[–] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By "garish" presumably you mean "awesome"

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does have a certain charm to it I will admit, but it is an inconsistent mess and could be a lot cleaner in my opinion.

[–] SexbearLmao@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

"inconvenient" is my biggest problem with it. Just use a single format for every work and add some html classes so I can scrape it easier.

[–] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

user experience

[–] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tbh, I love minimal websites. This could be my nostalgia speaking, though. Nevertheless, small websites means less bandwidth requirements for our comrades with slow internet.

Plus, text-focused websites tend to be higher quality and actually have meaningful content.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm all for minimalism, but I don't think that has to be at odds with the site looking nice and clean. Lemmy is a good example of a site that looks pretty minimal, but also looks nice visually.

[–] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
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[–] starkillerfish@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

i am pro website brutalism ( pretty cool website i found that collects this aesthetic https://brutalistwebsites.com/ )

[–] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The right parenthesis is breaking the url, btw, in case you want to fix it.

[–] Juice@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

JavaScript is bourgeois

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Thankfully Anarchists are better at web design, so I can read theory without dying of bad interface. The Anarchist Library, Crimethinc, even the IWW all look pretty good. If you want minimalist, we got that too.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

The only thing I look in a website for is an https protocol. Marxists.org has it, but there are some other sources of theory that are as ancient but were never updated, and thus remain http.

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