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I'll once again give my unneeded web developer take on this abomination of a website. Is it as bad as someone like Jason (Ferretfucker) Hall? No, because this guy does actually know how to code, just poorly.
I use cloudflare because I'm a cheap, lazy faggot and don't know any free alternatives. He just does it because he would see it as "the best solution, it's enterprise grade!".
I don't even know what the hell kind of purpose this serves apart from hurting my eyes.
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I don't believe this was made by a human, either that or he followed the shittiest "webapp" tutorial out there. You're making a WEBSITE not a WEBAPP, SITE meaning STATIC, there is NOTHING ON YOUR SHITTY WEBSITE THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE DYNAMICALLY.
data-v-blablabla - What further cements my argument that this was either made with a shitty webapp creator rather than an actual human being is the absolute unnecessary data-tags. These usually serve for either robots or as invisible text markers. Except, they're all empty, and serve literally no purpose other than infuriating me with bloat.
So many fucking comment tags - WHY? 'Cause you're too much of an illiterate fuck that you can't read code when it isn't separated by 15 miles of comments? This is Pirate Software levels of awful.
H1 has no content - The h1 tag serves as the title of a website, you're only supposed to have one as the title of the webpage. He leaves it blank with useless comments, and puts a p-tag with the ACTUAL title (?) in there. This is HTML 101. Don't add empty H-tags, retard.
style=??? - Why are you using inline styles? Is it because you're too much of a dumb fucking idiot to use .css files when your robot did it for you? You clearly have .css files, why not put them in there? Oh, right, you're a retard who can't even make a static website without a third party program, forgot. -- Along with my theory, which at this point is basically fact, him using just asinine magic numbers. --vp-offset refers to a variable. calc(50% refers to something being calculated using 50% of its parent's. Parent's what? I wouldn't know, it just says 50%. - 801px);, refers to who the fuck knows. Why the fuck is it -801px? What was so necessary for you to not make it 800 but 801px? Is it because some robot did it for you? You lazy nigger?
"Durrr, what is an ::after element?? Even though I've used it MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES ALREADY, I'LL STILL ADD IN BLOATED PIECE OF SHIT ELEMENTS THAT SERVE LITERALLY NO PURPOSE OTHER THAN THAT I'm A LAZY NIGGER."
Your shitty website does NOT need to fucking use .JS for ANYTHING.
data-v-blablabla - What further cements my argument that this was either made with a shitty webapp creator rather than an actual human being is the absolute unnecessary data-tags. These usually serve for either robots or as invisible text markers. Except, they're all empty, and serve literally no purpose other than infuriating me with bloat.
So many fucking comment tags - WHY? 'Cause you're too much of an illiterate fuck that you can't read code when it isn't separated by 15 miles of comments? This is Pirate Software levels of awful.
H1 has no content - The h1 tag serves as the title of a website, you're only supposed to have one as the title of the webpage. He leaves it blank with useless comments, and puts a p-tag with the ACTUAL title (?) in there. This is HTML 101. Don't add empty H-tags, retard.
style=??? - Why are you using inline styles? Is it because you're too much of a dumb fucking idiot to use .css files when your robot did it for you? You clearly have .css files, why not put them in there? Oh, right, you're a retard who can't even make a static website without a third party program, forgot. -- Along with my theory, which at this point is basically fact, him using just asinine magic numbers. --vp-offset refers to a variable. calc(50% refers to something being calculated using 50% of its parent's. Parent's what? I wouldn't know, it just says 50%. - 801px);, refers to who the fuck knows. Why the fuck is it -801px? What was so necessary for you to not make it 800 but 801px? Is it because some robot did it for you? You lazy nigger?
"Durrr, what is an ::after element?? Even though I've used it MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES ALREADY, I'LL STILL ADD IN BLOATED PIECE OF SHIT ELEMENTS THAT SERVE LITERALLY NO PURPOSE OTHER THAN THAT I'm A LAZY NIGGER."
Your shitty website does NOT need to fucking use .JS for ANYTHING.
So, I'm not dumb and I saw that he used a lot of VPblablabla, which made me look it up. And would you believe it:
Can no one make their own fucking websites anymore? Do we really need twenty-five fucking layers of obfuscation for us to understand the LITERAL BASICS OF HTML AND CSS? - Seeing this, his decisions for adding age verification to things makes a lot more sense. If you can't even make a static HTML page with your own two hands, give up. Literally, give up as a developer. I don't care if you've mastered Assembly, C, C# and C++, if you can't even make a website without these amounts of asinine obfuscation, you're done.
