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Re:The Mutable Web by jamesjyu on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:24PM (#20521129)
There's also an aesthetic homogeneity to the big social media sites that strikes me as bleak and depressing compared to the amateurish, handmade web pages of my childhood. Different pages on the same website — even different entries in the same journal — might look wildly different

I touched on this in a recent post here: https://www.jamesyu.org/blog/my-journey-from-frame-maker-to-...

I empathize with the author on this, but I also appreciate that platforms have designed their frames to prioritize content. This has resulted in an explosion of creativity within the frame that we wouldn't have otherwise seen, because the platforms have allowed more people than ever to express themselves, and not just the folks who know how to hand code pages.

Homogeneity provided the consistency so that creators could focus within the frame.

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Re:The Mutable Web by doctorpangloss on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:53AM (#20523229)
> designed their frames to prioritize content

Not only is most content delivered snippets devoid of styling, the lowest common denominator Internet user is just (1) the only source of growth nowadays and (2) utterly conditioned to expect everything looks like a Google SERP, so (3) everything looks like a Google SERP.

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Re:The Mutable Web by vishnuharidas on Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:04AM (#20523527)
#offtopic - what CMS do you use in your blog?
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Re:The Mutable Web by jamesjyu on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:05AM (#20523818)
Jekyll static site with a custom template.
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Re:The Mutable Web by simulacrumparty on Thursday July 25, 2019 @09:02AM (#20524974)
Well, not Jekyll, but similar. I built my own static site generator.
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Re:The Mutable Web by vishnuharidas on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:37AM (#20533281)
@jamesjyu @simulacrumparty I liked both! Simple and minimalistic. @simulacrumparty Is your staticgen opensource? Like to have a minimalistic one like that.
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