FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Re:FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly by ourcat on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:45AM (#25219948)

Back in the day, setting up my own site was the best thing I did. And the skills I learned by doing so have evolved into a 25 year professional career.

You're right about Social networks etc. They ate bloggers' lunch.

Far too many people aren't prepared to teach themselves how things work these days and do things for themselves.

One of the greatest regrets I have as a webdev/designer was to give in to constant requests to make things 'fool-proof' in the name of growth.

Users never 'learned' anything. Like how to follow instructions or use a new UI/UX. Everything got dumbed-down.

Now look where we are on those networks. It's mostly an absolute mess of utter drivel. 'posted' (not created) by those 'fools'.

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Re:FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly by 6510 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @09:59AM (#25220537)

Starting out with a dumb UI shouldn't be a problem as long as you are free to progress to greener pastures. It shouldn't be that you have to learn how to take apart a type writer before you can write a book, the technology doesn't require it.

A clear road beyond will also take down the walls around the silos since effort to control the user would come at a price (force them off the platform(s) faster)

We could perhaps start by separating the API from presentation? Have A scalable chunk of FOSS at first hosted by a megacorp but easily moved some place else and A presentation platform where people build their gui that is as easily moved.

(Just thinking out loud, didn't put much thought in it.)

edit: your own domain should be an obvious ingredient. Which seems to suggest that domains should be free?

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