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Why do you use this site?

by goldname on 3/25/22, 6:00 AM with 12 comments

• by 0xtaj on 3/25/22, 2:52 PM

  This is how a website should look. It provides information. As others have said, it has a clean, customizable look, and (imo) content that you won’t find anywhere else.

  The brilliance is the simplicity. You don’t get ads every other article. You get information.

  Look at a ‘man’ page. It delivers information in an easy to read, text format.

  We have had so much CSS, JS, pop-ups, pop-unders, and invasive click-tracking shoved down our collective throats that “surfing” the web is not an enjoyable experience anymore. It’s a damn chore.

  There is an undercurrent of simplicity in the design of web-pages that I personally am starting to more often. If you look at links posted here by highly technical people or *nix power users, it’s a bare-bones blog or site.

  For example: https://plaintextproject.online/index.html

• by akprasad on 3/25/22, 6:20 AM

  Respectfully, I disagree that the UI is awful. It's minimal and plain, yes; but it's also fast, lightweight, and information-dense. The UI conveys that this is a site for power users, at least in comparison with the average web watering hole.

• by spansoa on 3/25/22, 2:06 PM

  The UI is hackable because it's so bare-bones. If you don't like it, install Stylus[0] and create your own skin.

  [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...

  [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

• by mettamage on 3/25/22, 12:19 PM

  I love it when people say that the UI is awful. It's a sign the UI is doing its job. It's the best gatekeeper there is. It isn't too high of a bar to clear, but people that can't clear it seem to have different values. So in a sense the UI is doing part of the moderation.

  One value I have is: it's all about information and curiosity. People that need an aesthetically pleasing UI seem to not share this value enough.

• by tony-allan on 3/25/22, 6:24 AM

  The UI is minimalist and ad free. There is also a great API. What more could you want.

• by parksy on 3/25/22, 7:06 AM

  Content I find interesting, fair but firm moderation keeping the vibe in check, constructive conversations by and large. I never really notice the UI personally.

• by cable2600 on 3/25/22, 6:35 AM

  For tech news and product reviews. Discussions on the like as well. Sometimes nothing relevant to my interests but I learn about new things.

• by DantesKite on 3/25/22, 6:20 AM

  The comments. I don't even read the article most times. To me, it's the topic for discussion.

• by taubek on 3/25/22, 9:00 AM

  You can find a lot of interesting content (links & comments).

• by ggm on 3/25/22, 6:52 AM

  Content and moderation. Gui is fine. Don't change, much.

• by jbrins1 on 3/25/22, 11:03 AM

  Seemingly civilized discord.

• by Amfy on 3/25/22, 6:17 AM

  content