If people love, for example, Windows XP and think that it's the best operating system interface ever, good for them. Or Maybe it's Windows 7 and everything has been downhill from there?athenian200 wrote: ↑2024-03-11, 11:49Oh yeah, tell me about it... I think it would be even worse if we hadn't dropped Windows XP support.
Since I am extremely partial to Windows 10 and will resist 11 for as long as possible, I understand that having a strong preference is valid, but what I push back against here, is uncritical black and white thinking. That peculiar idea that what someone thinks somehow reflects the universal experience and is an objective truth.
Not wanting to pick on Eduardolucas1 and I only refer to it again because their statement is a recent example, but when they said "Social Networks and instant messaging are a failure and a nightmare" there is so little nuance and it is such a broad indiscriminate generalisation that it lacks any real meaning. Me, my family and friends use those daily and when on such platforms we are not living a nightmare or feel they are failing us.
I guess it's the absolutism of some views that appear on these forums that can rub me the wrong way. Usually I ignore such comments, and sometimes I don't, but it would be nice to read opinions, not comments phrased in ways to suggest that the writer thinks they are the keeper of some indisputable truth.
But what can we do? We got here not just because of big corporations, but via the legions of web developers looking for easy solutions. Maybe the blame lies mostly at the feet of Wordpress and the way it normalised using systems that you didn't need to understand?athenian200 wrote: ↑2024-03-11, 11:49Facebook and Twitter definitely don't need the heavy JS frameworks they use in order to do what they do, and neither do most other modern websites.
I was asked to make a website for a church community. For their needs, a static site would have been more than sufficient, but they persistently kept saying "But what about Wordpress!". Accusing Meta and Google or some other big company for where we are now has its place, but I suspect the complete answer is more complicated and involves the choices of plenty of little people and small businesses too.