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Re:A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet by anigbrowl on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:21PM (#15955639)
If they did not add value, we would still be using newsgroups.

I wish we were. Newsgroups were great, but they fell apart under commercial pressure; internally from spam, externally from the pretty graphics that were possible in a web browser. I really wish there were a clear successor to NNTP and a simpler, clearer markup standard - the popularity of FB and Wikipedia shows that people value simple, uncluttered interfaces almost to a fault.

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Re:A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet by brokenmachine on Monday December 18, 2017 @11:08PM (#15957659)
> the popularity of FB and Wikipedia shows that people value simple, uncluttered interfaces

I agree with Wikipedia, but FB has a horrible interface.

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Re:A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet by anigbrowl on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:25PM (#15974443)
It's full of dark patterns and I don't like the news feed algorithm. What I mean is that it relies on a small number of font sizes, styles and colors and is heavily standardized. Like, you could render FB in a text-based BBS software without losing much.
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