First off, it's a library, of course it's not going to be super flashy. Second, it's not even a bad design, just functional and to the point.
I guess these people are used to 100 neon burger adverts interrupting the websites they visit.
Lol I mean it doesn’t really bother me either I just thought it was funny bc it does kinda remind me of Web 1.0 times. It’s nostalgic if anything
Geocities gets ripped on but you know what, I was able to use it to create a functional website with zero training or experience. I'm not sure I'd be able to do that today without at least spending an hour watching how-to videos on YouTube.
on the other hand, looking at the second one, it could easily be done up with some open source copy+paste css - which would make it much more approachable to the new user
The great thing about the Archive is that every page is pure html which means you can easily run a client side html beautifier and get fantastic results.
Using Firefox's reader mode immediately makes the experience a million times better.
Also means you can really easily convert everything to epub (compressed html) too because it's predictably formatted and you can just do a quick conversion on it using something like calibre and get a perfect e-book.
Dirt_Owl still embeds links in the middle of .bmp images in TYOOL 2021
I have real trouble using it to search for texts which is annoying in a library
unironic return to geocities, bbs style forums, and irc :monke-return:
It’s also an imposition of the “clean” and “sleek” aesthetics of hipster corporate designers over the DIY aesthetics of the early internet. Everything had to be flat. Then everything had to be 3D. Then everything had to have rounded corners. Then drop shadows were out of fashion. It’s all just arbitrary fashion.
clean design is actually good as it means the stuff people are looking for isn't lost in the noise of the design
bad web design is better than good web design. this doesn't warrant further explanation, i think.
this implies brutalism is bad design which i wont stand for 😤
Not bad design just simplified aesthetic in exchange for efficient functionality
You, the new reddit design user: :epstein:
Me, the opt-out of redesign and only make subreddit stylesheets for the old design: :gigachad:
Just joking around based on the original comment saying “bad design”
Website design is my passion. Fish in the morning, design websites in the evening
... to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, design websites after dinner,....
Yeah, but they're super easy to mirror
mkdir -p /Volumes/<NameOfYourDrive>/<mia/icp>/cd /Volumes/<NameOfYourDrive>/<mia/icp>/wget -mpnp -nH -N -t 3 -w .5 https://www.<marxists.org/international-communist-party.org>Just let that run and you'll have a 50GB folder with the entire contents of both sites ready to be immediately pushed to any webserver.
Without the added UX bloat, it means anyone anywhere can download and host the entire site in less than a day with easy to set up foss software and like a raspberry pi with a large thumb drive.
Messed around with the css and made the icp website way less blinding
Just stole the color scheme from Breeze dark for KDE.
Whoa, did not realize this. Might set up a Gemini mirror of Marxists.org then!
EDIT: Proud new owner of Marxists.cafe, peep it on Gemini soon!
Do it, you can also use that command as a chron job to get the updated site. Thats their official mirror command and it only downloads changes as long as you run it in the same folder.
There are several active mirrors already that it automatically resolves the domain name to depending on availability. If you want, you can contact them and get yours added to the pool.
Nah the thing is Gemini isn't through http, it's a different internet protocol that requires a Gemini browser. It's like Gopher but modern. But yeah I could contact them afterwards and see if they'll list it!
Definitely, I'm sure they'd like to have someone set it up for them. They could list it in the mirrors page
I think you recommended I check out Gemini, was a great idea - I made an internet friend on there!
Not even particularly large. Mediumish? Standard nowadays?
I have no idea, ICP is only about 260MB. It also isn't service reliant so you don't have to configure like Google integrations and all that bullshit. Just good old fashioned hypertext and files
Select Your Campaign:
:marx: • :chad-trotsky:
:engels-wut: • :caught-in-4che:
:stalin-pipe: • :rosa:
Kinda give me ui from vtmb vibes now that you mention it lol
Usually I find that quality of political theory is inversely proportional to the quality of the website presenting it. This is a real problem, and will require a lot of work by skilled comrades to remedy.
it's one of the most poorly designed leftist websites, and it's pretty much leftist Time Cube
Any idea why this would require a lot of work? Serving static plaintext ought to be deaf simple, even when serving areas with real slow internet
the "aesthetic" sensibilities of silcova "creatives" are repugnant.
i remember emailing the website admins to add hypothes.is to the margins and I never got a response lmao
That sounds like a great way for feds to track your internet activity 😆.
you can create burner accounts wholly separate from your identity. The tool is also optional. And lastly, assume the feds already track everything about you, cause they do.
