[clickety_clack]

I remember when the internet was wild, young and fun, and this was something people did all the time. If you’re building Salesforce or SAP or Microsoft Word you should avoid it, but if you’re making a fun and weird website you should go to town.

[thesuitonym]

Yeah, it's not really that it's difficult and AI has made it easier. It's super easy, it's just anybody who knows what they're doing learned that it's bad decades ago.

Vibe coding didn't make it easier to change the cursor, it made it easier for incompetent people to write software.

[clickety_clack]

I'd agree with you if people didn't complain about "dead internet theory" all the time. The internet used to be a wonderful place full of weird, unexpected stuff. Now it's all shopping websites, attention sucking addiction machines, blogs about what people do for work, and corporate data management. If that's what you're working on, you should stay within the lines and do all the stuff with the back button rules and the cursor rules and the color rules and the font rules and the animation rules and the sound rules etc. etc.

I'd love to see more people violating the design guidelines more often so that the internet can become a place worth visiting again, full of all the weird and wonderful ideas that people have locked up in their heads.

[tosti]

Those overgrown webapps do indeed avoid changing the pointer. But the back button is their special place to go to town with. Businesses pay enormous amounts of money for a piece of crap that breaks the effing back button.