Comment by __MatrixMan__
19 hours ago
Are you sure people like the modern web? It's increasingly used as a weapon against them. I don't know anybody under 20 who likes the modern web. As for the others, I think its more about nostalgia.
19 hours ago
Are you sure people like the modern web? It's increasingly used as a weapon against them. I don't know anybody under 20 who likes the modern web. As for the others, I think its more about nostalgia.
> Are you sure people like the modern web?
People will often claim to dislike something, even though they would dislike the alternative even more (and they might even be actively choosing against the alternative). Pay more attention to what people’s actions reveal than what they claim.
(This happens not just in tech.)
In other news, anyone who has ever claimed to want to quit smoking is lying.
I guess the far closer(/better?) analogy would be something like people saying they dislike the ad-supported model for newspaper websites, YouTube, etc. However, many of those sites offer (or even heavily promote) options to get rid of the ads. (A number of the highest-regarded newspapers still even offer print versions too.)
The tech that made the old web still exists. Everything is a GET, a form POST, and needs a page reload. You can still use tables for layout like it's 1996.
1. I'm not proposing the users go back and live in the past. I'm proposing that we, the technologists, go back to the drawing board as it existed at that time and build a different future.
2. I'm not going to feel safe if I go make a web site that works that way. I'm going to feel safe if my bank does.