Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

  • 🔧 At about Midnight EST I am going to completely fuck up the site trying to fix something.
serious n00b said:
Here's this gif.

Just kidding, it's a "gifv".

Nevermind, it was actually an mp4 the entire time.
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We've had multiple solutions to the shit bloated image format from 1987 for ages now and yet they chose "change the file extension" because Google are cunts toward anything that doesn't have "Web" in the name.
 
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>over 1000 elements blocked by adblocker on YT

wow

Finder said:
"Accept Cookies/Data" popup
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That crap sucks because they could slip in BS terms into a policy linked to in the popup - that could be binding as a contract under US contract law - if one clicks "I Accept".

View --> Page Style --> No Style can be a solution, but it can make the website turn into an unreadable Web 1.0-like mess.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
View --> Page Style --> No Style can be a solution, but it can make the website turn into an unreadable Web 1.0-like mess.
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Falling back to browser style would be a perfectly fine solution if web developers could shake the "works on my machine" mentality and learn markup semantics. For all the posturing these days about "accessibility" you'll never get a JavaScript kiddie to learn that <button> isn't the same as <span> with a click handler on it.
 
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Finder said:
If I have to click one more "Accept Cookies/Data" popup I'm going to lose it.

Fuck the Euros and their internet laws that know no borders. If I didn't accept the cookies I wouldn't visit the site.
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>popup has more options or accept
>click more options
>have to disable 10 (((legitimate usage))) options
>vendor options
>click it
>get bombarded with 200 options, all toggled

these popups are designed to make you give up, fuck web designers
it's not the EU's fault. it's that if these cookie popups had a "reject all" button, it would have been useful
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
WEBP here.

WEBP there.

WEBP everywhere.
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serious n00b said:
Here's this gif.

Just kidding, it's a "gifv".

Nevermind, it was actually an mp4 the entire time.
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god this frustrates me to no end, especially when i'm specifically looking for gifs, not a fucking webp thats barely supported by what i'm trying to use a gif for.
mp4s are not a suitable replacement for gifs; they're non-looping videos that do not autoplay.
the only reason why you would use an mp4 over a gif is because you wanted to include audio or a longer clip that is not meant to be looped.

obviously people don't know this and will continue to make 192mb 1080p 2 minute long The Office gifs with impact font subtitles, completely ignoring that this is not what gif was ever designed for and being completely clueless as to why every social media site on the planet either rejects or converts their monster.
in my eyes the purpose and use of gifs is, and has always been for small looping animations and when you use it for such it's still an excellent format with an ok file size.

if i could choose a new format to replace gifs for their intended purpose, then i'd go for apng, no question. greater quality, better compression, support for actual transparency, and how they act and work just like how a gif would.
gifv is a close second, but that comes with video controls that may get in the way of using gifs for visual design/website elements.
 
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I don't like this "endless scrolling" BS. When reaching the bottom of a page, more stuff is generated, and the scroll bar gets shorter. It just keeps going and going, filling the RAM, making stuff harder to find.

Who came up with that and for what purpose?

(or to quote AVGN: "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!")
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
I don't like this "endless scrolling" BS. When reaching the bottom of a page, more stuff is generated, and the scroll bar gets shorter. It just keeps going and going, filling the RAM, making stuff harder to find.

Who came up with that and for what purpose?
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It keeps the average social media user in a mental loop that consistently provides both ad views and dopamine hits.

See a "funny' meme, then see an ad. See a short video. See an ad. See some drama. See an ad.

Everything is now designed to keep you busy while they insert little breaks in between people irrational thirst to be up to date and entertained.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
I don't like this "endless scrolling" BS. When reaching the bottom of a page, more stuff is generated, and the scroll bar gets shorter. It just keeps going and going, filling the RAM, making stuff harder to find.

Who came up with that and for what purpose?

(or to quote AVGN: "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!")
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it's to keep you more on the website/app
i hate how much bandwidth, and CPU procressing was wasted on HTML parsing/rendering, JS execution, and HTTP requests, RAM allocated for all the bloated variables and objects all without your consent
 
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I found a glimmer of hope the other day (a tiny one, but in current year I'll take what I can get). FrogFind is a Web 1.0 front end for DDG, designed mainly for use with vintage computers over text-based browsers such as Lynx. It also attempts to convert search results into Web 1.0 web pages, albeit with mixed success.

It's still fairly new and probably not that useful rn, but I think it's quite promising. It's also fun to play with.
 
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I miss actual websites.

I miss goofy shit like i-Mockery and Best Page in the Universe (lol) and derivitives (NinjaPirate), the works of J.R. Antrim like Ironic Consumer, movie sites Stomp Tokyo, whatever the fuck Encyclopedia Obscura was (RIP forever). A quick look at Not My Desk/Temporary Insanity shows parts of the site down which is a shame, lots of funny content on there (thankfully the Half-Life 2 webcomic Concerned is still alive), but much like Obscura I dread this will be lost in time eventually.

I miss fan sites that were autistically exhaustive yet wouldn't throttle your super computer like a god damn Fandom/wikia page. Mr. P's Castlevania Realm and the Castlevania Dungeon, Mega Man Home Page, ect.

I miss forums and comment sections where honest to god discussions took place, even if things heated up, at least it was more than a 250 character limits and people can express themselves properly.

Where do I go now? Here, youtube and music download sites. Anything else is just me looking up image references for work and thats it.
 
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Megaroad 2012 said:
I miss fan sites that were autistically exhaustive yet wouldn't throttle your super computer like a god damn Fandom/wikia page. Mr. P's Castlevania Realm and the Castlevania Dungeon, Mega Man Home Page, ect.
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Fan sites didn't get totally dumb until Wikia, now you have autoplaying video and capeshit ads on wikias for things like missing persons cases and genealogy. I swear there used to be more independent sites that had wiki style editing but not actual integration into Wikia's cancerous system too.
 
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