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[kradeelav]

conspiracy theory: it's responsive-"required" sites that killed the old web

i say that tongue-in-cheek but after about three days of really trying to Understand(tm) css flexboses/the grid shit (without hacking it via bootstrap or something) i swear to god this shit is impenetrable - it definitely crosses the line from hobbyist 'hacking almost-from-scratch tumblr/dw layouts is mega fun plus RESULTS even with minimal html/css knowlage' to 'where do i start bruh'

like, you *have* to have the latest browsers and you *have* to have some sort of like ... corporate-sponsored "generator"/"weebly-esque paid site"/"design program" helper to really do it right and nnnnngh gosh i hate hate hate what it means in terms of like yet another barrier for say, high school girls who just want to build a bomb ass site without being a ""coder"""" (aka the thing that made web 1.0 an entire thing.) 

i will figure it out eventually only because lol stubborness but oh my  g  o   d

edit: i cannot BELIEVE that with all the bullshit hokey pokey 'website builders' around that tumblr is still by far the most accessible html/css WYSIWYG editor oh my god

YELLING

Comments

[sokol]

this is definitely what's stopping me from getting further with my new sites; there's so many 3rd party languages and scripts you have to know... and I'm even working with a helper/editor site. parts of it are legit impenetrable to a layman unless you run whatever service you're using (or paying for it!) I really do miss the blank slates of HTML and even open-source coded widgets that you could throw into your code and they would just work ;__;

[lukadian]

Man I forgot all about widgets, fuck it used to be so easy to just...pop in like a chat box source code on like your blog or journal and bam off you go msn emoting with a taste of wild unfiltered visitor interaction.

[kradeelav]

it's somehow refreshing to know that it isn't just me staring at code and thinking half the brain's fallen out, ahaha. Still - yeah, it sucks to have to wade through and especially to see what it's come to these days - so bloated, everywhere.

(tbh if you want like a coding pair buddy just to talk through ideas and emerge with both sites in hand, let me know. <3 )