This is how a website should look. It provides information. As others have said, it has a clean, customizable look, and (imo) content that you won’t find anywhere else.

The brilliance is the simplicity. You don’t get ads every other article. You get information.

Look at a ‘man’ page. It delivers information in an easy to read, text format.

We have had so much CSS, JS, pop-ups, pop-unders, and invasive click-tracking shoved down our collective throats that “surfing” the web is not an enjoyable experience anymore. It’s a damn chore.

There is an undercurrent of simplicity in the design of web-pages that I personally am starting to more often. If you look at links posted here by highly technical people or *nix power users, it’s a bare-bones blog or site.

For example: https://plaintextproject.online/index.html

Respectfully, I disagree that the UI is awful. It's minimal and plain, yes; but it's also fast, lightweight, and information-dense. The UI conveys that this is a site for power users, at least in comparison with the average web watering hole.

The UI is hackable because it's so bare-bones. If you don't like it, install Stylus[0] and create your own skin.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

I love it when people say that the UI is awful. It's a sign the UI is doing its job. It's the best gatekeeper there is. It isn't too high of a bar to clear, but people that can't clear it seem to have different values. So in a sense the UI is doing part of the moderation.

One value I have is: it's all about information and curiosity. People that need an aesthetically pleasing UI seem to not share this value enough.

The UI is minimalist and ad free. There is also a great API. What more could you want.

Content I find interesting, fair but firm moderation keeping the vibe in check, constructive conversations by and large. I never really notice the UI personally.

For tech news and product reviews. Discussions on the like as well. Sometimes nothing relevant to my interests but I learn about new things.

The comments. I don't even read the article most times. To me, it's the topic for discussion.

You can find a lot of interesting content (links & comments).

Content and moderation. Gui is fine. Don't change, much.

Seemingly civilized discord.

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