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.
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 🫶
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
Better and consistent styling would definitely help, but it would be nice to have good search, better navigation, etc. It’d be great to take all the content from marxists.org and shove it into a modern content management system.
Even the ProleWiki library? 😥
Only love for ProleWiki!
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
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
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
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 <aside> 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.</aside>
yeah for sure, leveraging modern HTML features could make it a lot cleaner
