The state of the web, and software in general, is fucking abysmal. And it is in no small part due to this kind of shit.
You want this recipe/news/whatever? Here is a hundred mbs of frameworks, trackers, spyware…
What’s even the point nowadays when every website, sorry, ‘wEb ApP’ is going to make me install their crappy app to give me full functionality? Then the app is just a web view (when not a wrapped full fledged web browser) to present their shitty web but with more privileges.
No I’m not saying it’s the developers’ fault, they’re not the people making these decisions, just building whatever they’re paid for. But in this case it is this dev’s own site, and they’re defending their decision here.
The users…I don’t know how much they (we) are to blame. We all end up succumbing to the pressure sooner or later, and even though I really wish more people would put a bit more of a fight, when I see myself using smartphones, lots of these apps, WhatsApp, windows at work… sometimes I think whether maybe the ones giving up early or just straight up embracing the crap are the wiser ones, because resistance does sometimes seem futile.
Fuck this.
The state of the web, and software in general, is fucking abysmal. And it is in no small part due to this kind of shit. You want this recipe/news/whatever? Here is a hundred mbs of frameworks, trackers, spyware…
What’s even the point nowadays when every website, sorry, ‘wEb ApP’ is going to make me install their crappy app to give me full functionality? Then the app is just a web view (when not a wrapped full fledged web browser) to present their shitty web but with more privileges.
Like the whole rest of the world… that’s the users’ faults, not the developers.
No I’m not saying it’s the developers’ fault, they’re not the people making these decisions, just building whatever they’re paid for. But in this case it is this dev’s own site, and they’re defending their decision here.
The users…I don’t know how much they (we) are to blame. We all end up succumbing to the pressure sooner or later, and even though I really wish more people would put a bit more of a fight, when I see myself using smartphones, lots of these apps, WhatsApp, windows at work… sometimes I think whether maybe the ones giving up early or just straight up embracing the crap are the wiser ones, because resistance does sometimes seem futile.
That’s fair and reasonable.
That said, I’m happy to also blame the developers.
I faced the same pressures, but I still learned my craft.