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[Darren Dirt]

https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/

Also, notice view-source -- NEVER FORGET. WE WUZ WEBMASTERZ.

...the modern web is so... brutal.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/322-web-brutalism-millennial-interests-and-more-1.3602286/why-brutalism-is-the-hottest-trend-in-web-design-1.3602292

https://archive.is/nBCRD ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/09/the-hottest-trend-in-web-design-is-intentionally-ugly-unusable-sites )

We've seen lots of cool @%&# built on the web, but we've also seen lots of bull@%&# too: barriers to entry, walled gardens, gatekeepers. Some things have been made unnecessarily complex. At its core a web page is simple. That's the beauty of it. And when you publish HTML to a server that you control; that's @%&#ing powerful. Autonomy and independence are central to the web. We can't forget that.

The world still needs some @%&#ing webmasters. We might not all be making websites professionally anymore. But we should keep making websites. The passion, the freedom, the joy: we need to pass this on.

Let's use the web to create neat new exciting things.
Let's use the web to help people understand each other.
? Tim Berners-Lee
Let's take Tim's words and inspire a new generation to love a simple HTML page the same way we do.

[Thorin]

https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/

Nice, only 7.6kb including the css file.  No jquery functionality, but then it's not needed because it's just a static web page.

Things get a little heavier when the web page has to actually do things, like say, a document editor or some kind of data entry with large lists of dropdowns and stuff.  And a graphical UI is still easier to figure out than having to read everything, especially since then you don't have to worry about internationalization nearly enough.  But so many English speakers forget about i18n.

[Mr. Analog]

In my experience complexity is borne from simplicity. Take a simple web page, now add a layer on top of it to make it Do Things, then layer on top of that to make it do More Things and eventually you end up with a lot of sedimentary layers that may or may not make sense. Sure you can start over and Do It Right (TM) but at this point you're invested, its tested and people don't see the guttyworks under the facade and don't care.

One of the roadmap items I've heard about recently is getting some UX consistency between all our apps, the trouble with that is its easy to say and not easy to do.

Loud angry sigh

[Darren Dirt]

I officially declare that all Complex Websites get a single free pass to do a complete do-over of everything, with the only rule being that it must absolutely consistently follow the *nix way of thinking; aka only build a ton of perfect and tiny snippets of code that do Exactly One Thing Perfectly and then just glue it all together like solid dependable LEGO blocks.

[Mr. Analog]

LOL