Clean code won't save the planet

Re:Clean code won't save the planet by cblconfederate on Friday November 06, 2020 @02:53PM (#25010560)

Why wouldn't they? They re serving the same content for 20 years

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Re:Clean code won't save the planet by Delk on Friday November 06, 2020 @05:14PM (#25011677)

There isn't always an actual need to change a design, but people feeling that something "looks outdated" if it's not following current aesthetic trends is a real thing.

Somehow the Wikipedia design doesn't seem to be suffering from that. (And that's probably a good thing.)

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Re:Clean code won't save the planet by zinekeller on Friday November 06, 2020 @03:10PM (#25010683)

Good question. Counter-example: news sites. Very lean in '90s and early 2000s, but now still serves the same thing but with more tracking (so JS), autoplaying video for another newsitem (so additional data is consumed + battery life), and the essential content (what an average user wants) is still the same. Complicated visualization done wih JS+Canvas? Fine with that. News item? If it is a human, it would be obese already.

TLDR: News sites for reading news has certainly got heavier.

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Re:Clean code won't save the planet by jrm415 on Friday November 06, 2020 @04:23PM (#25011322)

Actually, the "essential content" has on average gotten much worse as budget cuts mean much less original writing.

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Re:Clean code won't save the planet by cblconfederate on Friday November 06, 2020 @03:37PM (#25010902)

News sites need to look trendy even if the current trend is "morbidly obese" wiki doesn't need that

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