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by everyone 1313 days ago
God I hate websites like that

Reminds me of the 90's cringe trend of having gifs and audio and crap everywhere.. But at least those still had some html and could potentially be semantic.

This modern cringe trend seems to have abandoned any hope of semantic web + all of the original ideas behind it.

3 comments

My first thought on interacting was "Thanks, I hate it."
Me too, I don't care how performant or consistent it is, it still feels clunky to me. If I'm reading primarily text content just give me a regular article format with a regular scrollbar. If your content needs fancy animations and transitions and stuff you should be making a video.
The main thing I hate about all of these is how low the information density is. I like to scan over dense text to see if I'm interested, but all of these try to force feed you information bit by bit at the speed they think is right for you.
the 90s web was extremely semantic in that the entire site was laid out as a table. tabular data is easily consumable!