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Re:The web looks like shit by supercoder on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:26AM (#14050776)
A/B testing is exactly what has turned the web into a horrible soup of click bait.

Good design needs strong opinions.

Re:The web looks like shit by nojvek on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:01AM (#14051116)
I really liked what RSS readers did. Also the HN app pulls out the text from the article and shows it in a consistent style. We'll spaced black on white sans-serif text. No ads, no bullshit, just text and images. Same clean design for every post.

I would really love browsers to have a read mode, like incognito mode. If website owners want to make their site not work with standard html, then search engines should rank them lower.

I really don't care about wiggling text underlines. It hurts my eyes. I want accessible clean design optimized for readability and speed.

Re:The web looks like shit by yellowapple on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:42PM (#14054409)
"I would really love browsers to have a read mode, like incognito mode."

Firefox does. It's fabulous.

Re:The web looks like shit by devmunchies on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:35AM (#14050848)
Thats if you make decisions based on revenue, conversions, etc and not based on criteria that is most beneficial to the user. You need a little of both for a sustainable business.
Re:The web looks like shit by throwanem on Friday April 07, 2017 @06:20AM (#14058555)
Bad design does, too.