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One big thing I hate about capitalism is the trend of "UI stuff that looks flashy but performs like shit" (hexbear.net)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by BeamBrain@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net
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Sure do love to have 50MB of bullshit poorly optimized Javascript visual effects crammed into my browser on every page. The cute little animations definitely make up for the fact that it takes like 5 seconds every time I load my private messages.

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[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago

I've had a job where I needed to know weather conditions in multiple cities, and weather.gov is like a flat grey, white and powder blue excel sheet. Meanwhile weather.com is covered in all kinds of animations, and videos, and has much more modern and busy looking visual design and a hundred ads. It's so slow, and if weather.gov was down I'd be so mad that I had to glance at weather.com.

Love you weather dot gov, your minimalist design and minimal system requirements are beautiful to me.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

wunderground is like the centrist option, and it has a funny name too

I mostly just use the 10 day forecast graph they make which is just a slightly more info dense version of weather.gov's 2 day hourly weather forecast graph.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

It's owned by the shitty weather.com people lol. I use weather.gov or the open source app wX on my phone

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have wX installed but rarely use it. I'm usually just looking for a detailed hourly forecast graph which wX doesn't seem to have. It's nice for when I want to watch the radar though.

I really just want this graph but for 7+ days so I can make plans for the next week or so at a glance.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.7145&lon=-74.0071&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

I'm wondering how you use a 7-day hourly forecast, but it might be that I just don't travel enough to need something like that.

I usually use a 5-7 day at-a-glance to sort out the week, and a 1 day hourly forecast to get a rough idea of when to expect rain.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The weather can change very quickly in my climate region, so it's nice to have a rough idea of when things will be happening. The daily forecast might show rain, but looking at an hourly forecast might show it is only for like 30 mins, that sort of thing. I also ride my bike often, and I like to plan rides with other people, so the extra detail can be very useful when trying to decide a route for the next weekend and such. Precipitation Accumulation is really helpful too for determining if it's going to be manageable misty or a long downpour, etc.

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Ah, I usually just need to know if the weather in 1-10 cities will be bad enough to shut down traffic today, I haven't paid a lot of attention to the extended forecast.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

I shit you not, you can easily code an app that does exactly that, it's not even all that hard to do and it's free to run. I just followed a YouTube video.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

aviationweather.gov has cool radar pictures, not sure why they made a separate website since it seems like it would be easy to consolidate

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago

You may not like it, but marxists.org is what peak web design looks like

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

Unironically yes

Pragmatic and straight to the fucking point

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

javascript should be illegal

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

EmmaGoldman, I offer you my sword in the people's war against stupid fucking slow websites.

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

how do I upvote this 20 times oh my god retvrn to

[-] glans@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

It could have been worse we could have ended up with activevx dhtml etc.

Flash was cool tho. Let's bring back flash (but not for navigation).

[-] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Exactly but some idiots decided it was a good idea to put the language on the serverside as well and made the travesty thats nodejs.

I quit JS at jquery i refuse to go any further.

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

In the year of our lord 2024, there are still websites that replace the mouse pointer

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

If I leave a website open in a background tab for two days, and it's using more resources than when I was actively using it, then the company that made that website should lose its website license and have to go back to snail mail.

[-] glans@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

As a workaround while were working on enforcing that, in Firefox go to about:unloads you can at least quickly get rid of all those.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

My extreme annoyance at every video game that requires a loading screen to return to menu

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

Bootstrap gigachad

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Every time I stumble across a gorgeous, unaltered web-1.0-ass website, it is a gift. I also like using Ublock to element-pick shit out of websites until they look nice though.

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

Giant piles of plastic crap, as far as the eye can see...

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

My favorite one is "header and sidebar that takes up most of the page" coupled with "clickbait adverts disrupting the formatting of the article"

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