Anything more than a plain html website is bourgeois decadence.
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
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sorry sweaty, CSS is reactionary
I mean, as a professional fullstack developer (so also frontend) there kinda is something to it.
I know this has been posted on jest, but this is slander.
marxists.org is not only perfectly fine, it's a sight to behold and replicate.
Hell actually, if anything I still believe it can be improved because https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ is peak web design and if you think otherwise you're simply wrong.
CSS is bourgeois decadence and JavaScript is fascistic techbro overreach into my computer.
Thank you for your service.
The second I've seen that meme I was 100% sure I would find you in the comments protesting.
It's just what I do 🫶
All of them are revisionism because I said so
No they fucking aren't. Accessibility is important. Security is important. I want to be able to read this in bed, without the lightmode bullshit. I want my websites to be FOSS. The only revisionism is thebestmotherfuckingwebsite.co, fuck JS.
That was a joke lmao
I honestly like how blowback.show looks and the other websites you posted are also good.
Except for JavaScript, I hate it to no end.
CSS is a good tool, and I just don't like it being over done. If a website lacks it, like the original motherfucking website, I tend to use Firefox's reading mode.
OP of comment of GitHub link here. I also like RedSails for its minimalist style. A couple more examples I like (not communist but minimalist techie blogs) include this and this.
Also, I believe this guy in Greece (who is currently trying to build a hut as he can longer afford rent) is ~~socialist~~ (never mind, just an anti-communist leftist, but I still like some of his ideas), and he's an emacs user and contributor (as a philosopher who started off with no understanding in technology, interestingly) who made this nice, minimalist website.
I like how red sails shows footnotes.
Oh yeah, it's so convenient and sincere like "Yeah we've got the receipts, wanna see?"
You can easily cross check them without the website having to jump constantly making reading an annoying mess.
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I was loving that website until it said it is sarcastic...
motherfuckingwebsite.com is peak design, and that's how I would design my website.
The person may have been sarcastic but I sure ain't. I also was for some really extatic when I visited https://blowback.show/ because I loved their relatively simple website design. It's fucking great.
yeah, you're not tripping that site is good
https://marxists.org is just fine
it's very utilitarian :)
I dont know much about web design but the site is probably burdened by being very old. The layout is executed using a combination of classes and CSS but most of what an article needs is baked into the HTML spec these days. For example tags and stuff. There are custom CSSs for the website on GitHub and they turn out to be more complicated than expected because of how the pages are designed.
yeah for sure, leveraging modern HTML features could make it a lot cleaner
It's not. Works by various authors have different html formatting that make it very difficult to consistently scrape. Splitting works into several pages makes it impossible to send them to pocket (or FOSS equivalents). It sucks for anything other than reading in their website.
Even the ProleWiki library? 😥
Only love for ProleWiki!
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LMAO. The libs found you on some post and down voted all your comments.
it's pretty hilarious that they actually spend time doing that
Tbh, I love minimal websites. This could be my nostalgia speaking, though. Nevertheless, small websites means less bandwidth requirements for our comrades with slow internet.
Plus, text-focused websites tend to be higher quality and actually have meaningful content.
I'm all for minimalism, but I don't think that has to be at odds with the site looking nice and clean. Lemmy is a good example of a site that looks pretty minimal, but also looks nice visually.
Maybe something like this? https://github.com/muxelplexer/marxists-org-dark-stylized
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Is this some coding meme that I'm too much of a layman to understand?
HTML is like the AK47 of web design. It does the job and respects the user.
Marxists can stop enshittification. Simple HTML websites embody the proletarian spirit.
Letting websites run arbitrary code on your device was a grave mistake
it wasn't a mistake, it was very well planned and executed without most people having a clue
under evil communist rule developers are banned from embedding javascript
I think it's basically making fun of marxists.org having garish UX
By "garish" presumably you mean "awesome"
It does have a certain charm to it I will admit, but it is an inconsistent mess and could be a lot cleaner in my opinion.
"inconvenient" is my biggest problem with it. Just use a single format for every work and add some html classes so I can scrape it easier.
What's UX?
user experience
i am pro website brutalism ( pretty cool website i found that collects this aesthetic https://brutalistwebsites.com/ )
The right parenthesis is breaking the url, btw, in case you want to fix it.
JavaScript is bourgeois
Thankfully Anarchists are better at web design, so I can read theory without dying of bad interface. The Anarchist Library, Crimethinc, even the IWW all look pretty good. If you want minimalist, we got that too.
The only thing I look in a website for is an https protocol. Marxists.org has it, but there are some other sources of theory that are as ancient but were never updated, and thus remain http.
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