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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by onion2k on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:00AM (#27034220)
The web is broken.

When an app on your computer or phone doesn't work well do you say Windows or iOS is broken, or do you say the app is broken?

A broken website doesn't mean the web is broken.

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by toomanyducks on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @04:38PM (#27042598)
> When an app on your computer or phone doesn't work well do you say Windows or iOS is broken

Yes. All the time. A good platform supports that which builds upon it.

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by throwaway77770 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:05AM (#27035451)
The grain of the web is so that it's much easier to write something broken than something that works.

That's true of all development, granted, but doubly so the web, so yep... the web is broken.

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by onion2k on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:20AM (#27036347)
Most websites work quite well.
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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by ComputerGuru on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:57PM (#27046023)
That was mostly true before client side rendering.
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