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Re:Regex Blaster by ks2048 on Friday March 20, 2026 @09:55AM (#47454537)
Every vibe coded site is too dark and the text is too small.
Re:Regex Blaster by christoph-heiss on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:25AM (#47455955)
And all the text is grey-on-grey and basically unreadable. Not to even mention accessibility.
Re:Regex Blaster by bmm6o on Saturday March 21, 2026 @11:24AM (#47467866)
Automated accessibility testing needs to be in your loop, whether you are using an llm or not. Aria labels are easy to get right but they are also easy to forget.
Re:Regex Blaster by mdp on Friday March 20, 2026 @10:33AM (#47455129)
This is fair, although I ask for it to be dark themed to match what I think was the style of typing game I remember growing up with (it's been a while). Bumped up the font though.
Re:Regex Blaster by btilly on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:20PM (#47456824)
My top complaint is that if I've successfully used a pattern, I want my text removed. I keep forgetting to backspace a bunch, then get frustrated that my pattern isn't working.

Other than that, great game!

Re:Regex Blaster by xnorswap on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:38PM (#47457065)
Next time please ask it to respect system dark/light mode preference, it's trivial to do, especially for an LLM which can spin up light/dark alternatives easily.
Re:Regex Blaster by NooneAtAll3 on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:41PM (#47457100)
no

considering free windows being light theme only, it should be a button, not a "system default"

Re:Regex Blaster by xnorswap on Friday March 20, 2026 @01:33PM (#47457870)
There should be a button too, but it's simple to add a line so that it also defaults to any provided preference.
Re:Regex Blaster by zamadatix on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:20PM (#47459356)
By "free windows" do you just mean an unactivated copy of Windows? That doesn't prevent the user from configuring their preference in the browser itself.
Re:Regex Blaster by gdcbe on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:23PM (#47459381)
… is that even legal to do for microsoft? Are there no requirements to adhere to certain standards? Would have thought that is part of it.
Re:Regex Blaster by love2read on Friday March 20, 2026 @05:38PM (#47460965)
what would the requirement be? "thou must provide the full paid service to those who do not pay"?
Re:Regex Blaster by CamperBob2 on Friday March 20, 2026 @01:02PM (#47457440)
That's fine, too. Either way, give the user the choice.
Re:Regex Blaster by flykespice on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:00PM (#47456498)
Every vibecoded site have this same dark look with shining hue-gradient borders, can't wait for the future the entire web be filled with this generic look
Re:Regex Blaster by progbits on Friday March 20, 2026 @10:22AM (#47454955)
They all have this rounded box design as well. I wonder where that came from, I don't think it was a predominant style before.
Re:Regex Blaster by mrkramer on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:22AM (#47455915)
I vibe code web apps with Google's Gemini and I think it actually mimics Google's UI and UX because I see similarities between my vibe coded web apps and Google's web apps.
Re:Regex Blaster by progbits on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:47AM (#47456289)
But that's a different style from the these colorful border rounded boxes that I think Claude in particular loves to produce.
Re:Regex Blaster by xg15 on Friday March 20, 2026 @05:42PM (#47461030)
Recently asked Codex (GPT-5.2) to write a small single-page HTML frontend to debug some REST endpoints. As it was just a one-off tool, I put in no instructions about looks or styling at all. Lo and behold, the tool it wrote came with exactly that round-box style.

It seems to be the "default" style of some models for some reason.

Which makes me wonder if people already experimented with different style suggestions to get different results: "Make it look like an 1998 GeoCities page" / 2005 Facebook / Newgrounds / DeviantArt / HN / one of those Windows XP simulators with built-in window manager / etc

Re:Regex Blaster by darkstar999 on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:14AM (#47455794)
What evidence do you have that this is vibe coded?
Re:Regex Blaster by flexagoon on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:17PM (#47456776)
Because it looks exactly the same and feels as janky as 99% of vibecoded web apps
Re:Regex Blaster by ks2048 on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:56PM (#47459765)
Just based on vibes.
Re:Regex Blaster by efilife on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:12PM (#47463647)
He just can tell. Like you can tell when you are looking at a flower and can instantly name what it is. You can just tell
Re:Regex Blaster by PurpleRamen on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:44PM (#47457146)
Maybe because it 1337 hackerman-style, or something.
Re:Regex Blaster by mchaver on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:56PM (#47457332)
I could envision the style even before clicking on the site.
Re:Regex Blaster by lofaszvanitt on Friday March 20, 2026 @01:54PM (#47458178)
And not playtested at all :D