Mastodawn

Please stop with the floating elements on websites. They're hiding your content, and make me want to leave!

No, I don't want to "swipe to the next article" if there's also gonna be a giant floating arrow hiding the text and make me want to stop reading the one I'm painfully trying to read right now.

No, I don't want to "donate" if I can't even fully read what your organization is about because of all those buttons floating over your content.

The goal is to show your content! Why hiding it with a bajillion arrows, buttons, and popups? And please test your website for small mobile display. Your floating elements are ENORMOUS there 😭

I've never done web design, but I've always had this thought in the back of my mind that not all of these sites have a legitimate need for JS, or at least not on every page. It seems like a lot of them could've been plain HTML+CSS and been fine.

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@plutarch Indeed. I have done quite a bit of web design and I agree. All my websites only use HTML+CSS. For a basic website presenting images and text it's all you need. It's also much easier to maintain.

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Bredroll 4d ago

@Em0nM4stodon @plutarch exactly, i was a professional web developer, you dont need 90% of the utter crap sites load these days, the "frameworks" are totally nuts. These things all try to turn a simple "page" into an event driven gui app.

When I write stuff these days I avoid such BS, You rarely need javascript IMO, only for complex things like web based maps.

@Em0nM4stodon @Bredroll @plutarch A classic: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Motherfucking Website

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su_liam 4d ago

@robinadams @Em0nM4stodon @Bredroll @plutarch This is goddamn beautiful.

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Kancept 4d ago

@robinadams @Em0nM4stodon @Bredroll @plutarch finally, you’ve found the opposite of https://userinyerface.com/

User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment

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su_liam 4d ago

@Bredroll @Em0nM4stodon @plutarch When I first started surfing the WWW on Lynx I was absolutely disgusted by corporate sites that didn’t have any content at all until you loaded all the pictures. There haven’t been a lot of additions since maybe frames that actually made the web better than what you could show on a text-only interface. Maps and maybe video services are about the only exceptions, and they’re more heavy-duty than most websites need. I do enjoy my inline illustrations, but I could do that with pure html in 1998.

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AetherAnne 4d ago

@Em0nM4stodon @plutarch Yay, #NoJS gang rise up! Figuring out JS-free alternatives to common website features is so much fun. :) I recently came up with a JS-free tag filtering system and a JS-free footnote-on-mouse-hover feature for my website, and had an absolute blast resolutely ignoring all those tutorials out there telling me to just use JS.

As for pop-overs, I have a personal rule that I’ve been following for the last few years: any website that bombards me with multiple popups (or hijacks my scroll wheel) is added to my Shit List and never gets visited again. I begrudgingly stick around on websites with cookie pop-ups if I like the site (but always can’t help wondering “couldn’t you just … NOT use cookies and analytics tracking, and then not have to annoy me with this pop-up?”)