America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here

Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here by rafram on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:57AM (#49895542)

They laid off the highly skilled professionals who voluntarily took pay cuts (vs industry) to work for the US Digital Service (now "US DOGE Service," God help us) and GSA 18F, and who built some pretty solid standards for government sites.

They then replaced them with a bunch of inexperienced but ideologically aligned frontend developers who use the same insanely resource-intensive defense tech startup-esque template on every page, and who seem to be under the impression that scroll hijacking and fade-in blur effects are very essential to a government website, but performance on low-end devices and compatibility with accessibility technologies are not.

Feels like a step backwards to me, but perhaps the 4D chess game they're playing is just way above my level.

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Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here by myaccountonhn on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:01PM (#49903066)

This is the new 1000x productivity improvement introduced by LLMs that they've been talking about so much.

Will it lead to better quality? Nope.

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Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here by duskdozer on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @01:47PM (#49912107)

>but performance on low-end devices and compatibility with accessibility technologies are not.

These are probably features

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