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by ravenstine 1356 days ago
This is amusing as a developer, but there's a reason why Bootstrap is still a thing. It works. And I don't even really like it, to be quite honest. Yet in terms of what it's designed to do, it succeeds. The public doesn't know what Bootstrap is and, with a couple tweaks to the colors and border radii, they won't even notice that they're on a site that's nearly identical to a millon+ other sites.
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I go to a bootstrap site and I know what to do. Familiarity is a feature.
I honestly get pretty confused by these websites, usually I have to use ctrl+f to find the content, but often I fail to find what I'm looking for.
UI that does that collapse thing (mobile Wikipedia for the fail!!) causes the find on page feature to become useless.
Yeah it's still way more popular than Tailwind for example.

https://2021.stateofcss.com/en-US/technologies

Does it work? I'm probably not the target audience, but I don't know who would actually read a bootstrap page. It's a few sentences worth of information bloated up in both page space and data.

The first and only thing I do is find the link in the top right that leads to a more traditional page that actually contains useful information (e.g., Docs, FAQs, About).