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Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by zeveb on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @01:07PM (#12745572)
> I seriously want to punch a hipster every time I have to use an app that used to work and has now been designed to death.

Me too. In fact, it concerns me how angry stupid decisions make me these days. I just want to sit folks down in a chair and ask them why they hell they broke something that needed no fixing. It wasn't a problem, and now it is. I want to quote the 90s classic Billy Madison at them:

> Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

I read websites on a daily basis where image loading is broken without JavaScript, and where focusing the page takes over a second while it loads images — when HTML has supported images for over two decades. I read websites where even with every blocker I know of used at once can't keep them readable. I use software clearly designed to only be usable by a teenager with perfect vision and thirteen thumbs. Why do people do this?

Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by braveo on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @07:05PM (#12748493)
> Me too. In fact, it concerns me how angry stupid decisions make me these days.

Are you me? I'm the epitome of the old grumpy programmer. I have this love/hate relationship with technology. One the one hand I still love it, on the other hand I hate 99.9% of the tech I come into contact with because it's always shit for some reason or other.

Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by protomyth on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @09:00PM (#12749139)
Me too. I had a true rage moment when I open the Clock app on iOS 10 and discovered some weasel of a designer had changed the colors to some orange / black scheme for no reason. It's harder to read and clownish looking.
Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by Declanomous on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:39PM (#12746453)
Because HTML isn't sexy.
Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by the_other on Thursday October 20, 2016 @07:19AM (#12751344)
It freakin' is!! Well crafted, semantically rich markup can be a beauty to behold. It's a shame webapps have obscured the craft behind an opaque veil of nested `<div>` tags.