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Re:Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface by washadjeffmad on Friday May 02, 2025 @09:33AM (#43869531)
The front page of our early phreaking zine was an interactive cellphone- a certain famous model of Motorola- that you had to navigate to enter.

It was a great filter against people who wouldn't have understood the content. If you knew how this model worked, there were a lot of easter eggs, and we received a lot of great feedback to make it more fun and rewarding.

Being told that it would "frustrate users" would have elicited a friendly "Not ours :)".

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Re:Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface by Philpax on Friday May 02, 2025 @01:48PM (#43872825)
Absolutely! I very much respect that; some things are meant for a specific audience, and that's OK.

That being said, it looks like this website is meant to serve as a portfolio and a self-introduction - and for that, you generally don't want to alienate the entirety of your mobile audience :sweat_smile:

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