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Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'? by hood_syntax on Thursday October 19, 2017 @09:11AM (#15507544)
> There's always been poorly-written software, poorly-created websites, bad UIs, bad UX, etc...

Yes, but the bad websites in the old days didn't lug in a bunch of unnecessary js to accomplish their aim. I do think things are improving as a whole, like you do, but we're currently on the latter half of a pendulum swing from barebones to over-engineered.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'? by Too on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:57AM (#15508458)
Don't forget we used to have flash back then. It wasn't pretty.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'? by twobyfour on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:13PM (#15510737)
Yeah, but basic news or discussion sites didn't use Flash. In fact, the vast majority of sites didn't; or only used it for games or video - i.e. use cases that called for it.

And "Flash sucked" is no excuse for the web being bloated and delivering text content in ridiculously stupid ways today.

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