Fantastic website. Far better than 98% of the sites I’ve visited this year. Far better than any site designed by a front-end engineer. Loaded fast despite all the pictures. No cookie warning. No doorslams. No static elements taking up half the viewport. The only thing it needs is a max-width to limit the line length.
Yes! I think before someone calls themself a "web developer" they should go view pages like that and bask in the instant load time. View source on that page and take a moment of silence to appreciate it. And then think about it every time they add a newsletter subscription call-to-action or auto-playing video.
At this point, I'm starting to think somebody could turn this into a viable business model. An app/site where extreme performance is literally the unique selling point.
"It's like $POPULAR_APPLICATION, except it loads fast like Craigslist"
Sorry for any personal offense; I was partly exaggerating for effect. If you’ve been able create, for a company or organization, a site that eschews all the abuse and annoyances of the modern web, I’d genuinely love to see it. Please supply a link.
No, I havn’t been able, and that’s the source of my frustration.
In a medium or large company, it’s very difficult to get this opinion heard. Layers of decision-making and power plan this out months before hands-on devs get to do much good. In small companies, speed and cost-limiting almost demands we make bad decisions.
yes, poor me for being the odd one out for not having to bend my neck over reading a 4" screen. i much prefer having my screens at a height that does not require me to look down like i'm a hunchback. the only time i see people holding a phone up to their face is on video calls, but that's just vanity not wanting that up angle look.
honestly, it's one of the things I've always hated about reading books. i've just never found a comfortable way to read. it definitely has to do with why it takes me longer to read a book than other people.
The comment I was replying to described the website as “perfect”, so I expect the website to be accessible. Quite frankly, it doesn’t matter where I decide to read it and on what device I decide to read it on.
HN people praising 90s web design like this as the epitome of design is comedy.
I had a friend who read books regularly on the iPod Touch I gave him (3.5" screen). For a while he was flying multiple times a week so he binged through all the LOTR books and then all the Harry Potter books.
