‘Old-School’ Signature Bank Collapsed After Its Big Crypto Leap

Re:‘Old-School’ Signature Bank Collapsed After Its Big Crypt... by yieldcrv on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @01:38PM (#35155278)

I honestly think that's a point of pride for many financial services.

If you don't want retail consumers, you don't wow retail consumers. You don't provide arbitrary confidence boosters to poor people who could never be in your network and leverage real wealth even if they tried for 100 years. You don't provide arbitrary confidence boosters that change every 2-3 years because anybody can learn the latest layout design pattern.

I think its far beyond having a World Wide Web strategy in 1995 and never revisiting it.

Its "Hm, never heard of you" good, its working.

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Re:‘Old-School’ Signature Bank Collapsed After Its Big Crypt... by wobbly_bush on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @01:53PM (#35155547)

Are just the landing pages that are intentionally kept simple or even the real site behind logins? A bad site typically also reflects low confidence in technological abilities, is that not the case here?

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Re:‘Old-School’ Signature Bank Collapsed After Its Big Crypt... by waboremo on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:01PM (#35155696)

That isn't their intent at all here. You can view archive of the site and see that they were chasing trends, this was just their latest redesign that happened late 2014. Once you get past the cover page, they even had a very trendy full height drawing (that was removed in 2019).

Contrast this to Berkshire Hathaway, no additional scripts (gtag excluded) or frameworks, no plethora of css defined. Now that is defining a strategy and never revisiting it. Including still using adobe pagemill to publish pages.

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Re:‘Old-School’ Signature Bank Collapsed After Its Big Crypt... by Scoundreller on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:12PM (#35155948)

I think some (all?) Berkshire Hathaway pages were just Word documents saved as html.

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