I know I’m going to get downvoted for this, but “modern UI” doesn’t have to suck. It’s just that a lot of companies don’t give a shit. Modern design is about accessibility— about the ease of finding and using things (including general readability). Google and many others have violated these principles with their “modern” UIs. People shouldn’t say “modern bad”, they should say “Google bad”.
Serebii.net on the other hand is “old web”— and man is it an unusable, unreadable, un-navigatable, overwhelming piece of crap. And I will take that opinion to the grave. Both Google and Serebii.net can be awful, fam.
tbh modern web should be good. We can make the pages look and act just about any way we want. Old web with blink tags, tiny text, insane margins, etc is not what needs to be brought back. The “old” web was only good because it didn’t load 10mb trackers and whatever javascript framework is popular right now.
It’s pretty insane to me that in some ways, the old web was more performant on a 56k modem in 1996 than it is today on a gig connection.
Absolutely great point. Great web design and accessibility can exist in a simple HTML page just as well as the highly engineered javascript infitely scrolling wonder page.
Okay, but… it’s just a page. Try building a store or something like Lemmy with just static HTML and only enough CSS to make larger or bolder fonts and see where that gets you.
Google is bad, but nuance in your argument is still important.
You nailed it. This whole post screams, “I use Google, never heard of adblockers, and let my OS/phone determine my app choices.” I’m constantly amazed how many people rely on Google yet lack the resources to search for information.
I know I’m going to get downvoted for this, but “modern UI” doesn’t have to suck. It’s just that a lot of companies don’t give a shit. Modern design is about accessibility— about the ease of finding and using things (including general readability). Google and many others have violated these principles with their “modern” UIs. People shouldn’t say “modern bad”, they should say “Google bad”.
Serebii.net on the other hand is “old web”— and man is it an unusable, unreadable, un-navigatable, overwhelming piece of crap. And I will take that opinion to the grave. Both Google and Serebii.net can be awful, fam.
tbh modern web should be good. We can make the pages look and act just about any way we want. Old web with blink tags, tiny text, insane margins, etc is not what needs to be brought back. The “old” web was only good because it didn’t load 10mb trackers and whatever javascript framework is popular right now.
It’s pretty insane to me that in some ways, the old web was more performant on a 56k modem in 1996 than it is today on a gig connection.
Absolutely great point. Great web design and accessibility can exist in a simple HTML page just as well as the highly engineered javascript infitely scrolling wonder page.
https://ultimatemotherfuckingwebsite.com/
Okay, but… it’s just a page. Try building a store or something like Lemmy with just static HTML and only enough CSS to make larger or bolder fonts and see where that gets you.
Google is bad, but nuance in your argument is still important.
You nailed it. This whole post screams, “I use Google, never heard of adblockers, and let my OS/phone determine my app choices.” I’m constantly amazed how many people rely on Google yet lack the resources to search for information.
Yeah that’s why I use Bulbapedia for all of my catching them all needs.
Same, Bulbapedia is great.