[userbinator]

There's a lot of hostility on HN towards web developers.

Why shouldn't there be, when they're the ones breaking things that used to work perfectly fine, and then reimplementing them half-bakedly while consuming an order of magnitude more resources than before?

Should Github explicitly support terminal-based browsers like Lynx as well?

Why does it have to be "explicitly support"? Whatever happened to using the simplest technology possible for the task? That way you'll end up with a page that will work to the best possible extent for any given user-agent. That is ture accessibility.

I'm not asking for them to go out of their way to try to show images in Lynx or whatever. I'm asking for a sane approach to making sites that does not require running arbitrary code on the client just to show some static text that should've come along directly in the page, something that literally all browsers would be able to, but is being needlessly restricted.

Plus, you can avoid 99% of the github website just by using git from the command line (or your favorite client) and using their CLI tool for repo creation/etc.

That is true, but beside the point.

[SquareWheel]

> they're the ones breaking things that used to work perfectly fine

And it still works perfectly fine. You've purposefully modified your browser to not respect web standards. Any error is your responsibility, not theirs.

[zelon88]

To some extent I agree with this sentiment. Not so much the Javascript aspect, although I've always viewed JS with the "less is more" mentality myself. I understand that it's become a critical part of the web, so that's not really where I agree with you.

I agree with you more on the "breaking things that used to work perfectly fine." To me this has nothing to do with "accessibility." If I recall correctly, a couple years ago the header was white, then they changed it to grey.

While I feel like giving users more theme options and more control over their UI is the right direction to go in and one that adds value, I can't help but think that this is just the design team keeping themselves busy/valid.

I followed their design team on social media for a brief period until I realized that all they do is hold senseless confs with the same people over and over again to discuss the same things over and over again. None of them have real code in their repos, just markdown and HTML and stylesheets. None of them contribute to 3rd party projects. Then they iterate something nobody was complaining about. I just feel like these are resources that would be better spent elsewhere.