How I Experience Web Today

Re:How I Experience Web Today by croes on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:08PM (#28281272)

Web development and it's tools are often a top topic on HN. Better tools, new languages, new frameworks, improved frameworks etc. So now someone tell me why we get such sites? Why should I care about developers if they don't seem to care about me? And that's only the design and UX not to mention the whole tracking and spying.

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Re:How I Experience Web Today by rchaud on Monday August 23, 2021 @07:08PM (#28283205)

> So now someone tell me why we get such sites?

People posting on HN usually work on web applications. Those don't need to serve ads because somebody is already paying for the service provided (e.g. Netflix, Salesforce, JIRA).

Similarly, they don't serve annoying email popups because every user is already logged in, and their email is already known. A random website you came across while searching for X, doesn't have that luxury.

So they can afford to talk about bad UX elsewhere, because their websites don't have to compromise on UX to make money.

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Re:How I Experience Web Today by danjac on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:29AM (#28285414)

Web developers get zero say in all this. I've been in the room when developers - and UX people - call out this crap. After all, regardless of the user experience, adding all the popups and analytics garbage and whatnot makes developers' jobs much harder.

And every single time, they are overruled.

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Re:How I Experience Web Today by austincummings on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:49PM (#28282416)

It's the business that doesn't care about you, not the developers.

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Re:How I Experience Web Today by ratww on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:55PM (#28282475)

Considering that lots of developer blogs these days also employ some of those tricks, I wouldn't be so sure.

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