Mastodawn

The amount of casual PC users telling me my website is broken *because* I don't paywall my writing nor track my users or shove a mailing list thing at them is worrying me. I know it's unconventional to have a website *not* throw popups at you every visit, but come on, this is deeply unsetteling. I can't express how many people are scared of my website *because* I don't track my users, I don't bombard them with things upon visiting. The only thing that's broken at the moment is the navigation menu button doesn’t work with JavaScript disabled, but there's a site map non JavaScript people can use. https://sightlessscribbles.com/ #WebDev

Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

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Iron Pencil Statue

4h ago

@WeirdWriter seriously though I know I don't always actively check your site but it's better done than 99% of sites

1- You remember RSS feeds exist
2- While "Simple" in design, it doesn't feel like you're half-done, it feels like you were like "I want my site to be simple and easy to use, even if I don't have javascript snowflakes*"

The javascript snowflakes are a joke if you add those only add them for April Fools lol

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Robert Kingett 4h ago

HAHA! I forgot about the snowflakes! :) I use a static site so I am not even sure if that's possible, but mainly yes. My website is for reading, not interacting with! But yes the texts were basically like this. I combined all their short texts into one long one. "“Hey Robbie. I visited your website today and, is this really your site? There's no cookie banner. Where's your mailing list? Nothing’s popping out at me? Does this site have malware on it? I clicked around but I can't find the cookie banner. You're a writer so why don't you have your mailing list be more visible to people visiting your website? Is this supposed to be a joke website or something. I don't understand the joke." "@lapis

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Iron Pencil Statue

@WeirdWriter I like how we're so USED to all these popups that site LACKING them is a sign of malware

(There's this tumblr post I saw that basically said with the amount of ads and banners you see on a standard site today that would have been a sign in the 00s that you had at least 3 viruses on your computer)