@molly0xfff Oh, gods yes. I'm guess I'm old and cranky, but I just like text. Good old, fast loading text, preferably with a dark mode option.

@molly0xfff You're not alone. I say bring back animated 🔥s!!!

@molly0xfff that doesn't appear very mimalistic by design

@molly0xfff Worked on a website like that for a customer seven years ago. These designs are really horrible.

@molly0xfff think of how many watt-hours of CPU/GPU energy on battery are being wasted worldwide to make web pages harder to read…

@molly0xfff I can only hope that in a few years we’ll all look back on this trend like we do on PowerPoint slides where every bullet point swooshes in ➰

@molly0xfff For real. And every theme for CMSs does it. Also when they do that sidescroll animation suddenly, like no, please save it for a portfolio bro.

@molly0xfff this is such a “once you see it” thing and I wish I had never noticed it because now it just makes me mad every time

@molly0xfff Wow yeah I hate that.

Also sites that override scrolling to do some weird animation almost never should be doing so. (Which I guess is the same 'feature’ actually?)

@molly0xfff Gotta love how "Minimalistic by design" vibes with the look of their website 😂

@molly0xfff 100%. Load the text all at once, and stop breaking ctrl+f.

@molly0xfff but the management team thinks it looks so cool and modern

@molly0xfff yes

@molly0xfff I love the animations.

Mostly because I can immediately see which companies prefer flashy bullshit over actual usability, and avoid their products/services.

@molly0xfff I like (hate) how this website says it is “minimalistic by design”

@molly0xfff Yep. I sometimes long for Web 1.0. Give me straightup HTML. No CSS. The default styling. No JavaScript. Walls of text.

@molly0xfff It sucks so bad.

@molly0xfff Most of the website content on these kinds of sites is brochureware and SEO bait. Gotta impress the people paying for the web "design." I'm so glad I exited web dev in December after being a developer since 1995. I focus now on making sure my websites are full of quality information an content. Also redesigned most of them with skeumorphism effects because they are my websites. I'm not going to follow trends.

@molly0xfff "Minimalistic by design" #NoItAint

@molly0xfff I blame Core Animation (Apple technology invented for iPhone OS). Fancy and easy-to-use APIs for giving every UI element frivolous slow behaviours, when all you want is to get on with it.

Edit: I mean, this explosion of animations was the inspiration for similar behaviours everywhere. Though it may have been destiny.

@molly0xfff why let the browser progressively render HTML when you can use JavaScript to do it slower 😭🫠

@molly0xfff you folks are minutes apart.

https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/112282090991290983

I wonder how many people per minute get frustrated by this horrible trend…

@molly0xfff this is legit one of the worst design trends of late

@molly0xfff theory:
this animal, Unusablei Sellsizzlus, has evolved to mimic the behavior of the distinct and separate Powerpointfor Middlemanageri. Including transition effects, art style, and the at-first confusing combination of a huge number of figures & buzzwords with almost no actual information. The latter of which lulls the prey into an MBA-like stupor long enough to sign a service agreement and the first check.

@molly0xfff "If you self identify as a 'web dev,' you are probably responsible for all of the world's ills"

@molly0xfff It’s PowerPoint ‘97 all over again

@molly0xfff @Meyerweb Same! Thanks for saying it out loud and helping uncover a thing I didn't even realize was bothering me, but boy howdy does it ever!

@molly0xfff It’s really enlightening to browse the web with a JavaScript blocker and watch how many sites break *badly* until you allow the pointless content-animation JS library from RandomSiteOfUncertainProvenance.ai load.

@molly0xfff same, Molly. same.

@molly0xfff thanks I hate it

@molly0xfff made me think of this Bing animation. Blurring the results on mouse-over is definitely the behaviour I want.

@molly0xfff Fuck yea

@molly0xfff A client once told me they trusted my firm's engineering skills because our website was so simple and retro.

@molly0xfff I believe the phrase "Minimalistic by design" flashed by briefly.

@molly0xfff This was done first—and best—on hamsterdance.com.

@molly0xfff Useless exec: "PowerPoint animations are the worst! Just display the content..."

Same useless exec at a planning meeting hiding the fact they know nothing about websites, but needs to speak up or the boss will confront him later: "Hey, can the text slide in when they scroll the page? That looks really slick!"

@molly0xfff that is very resume driven design. Ugh.

@molly0xfff HOLY FUCK GUYS THAT THING IS BUILT BY INTERCHAIN EXPERTS!!!!

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io A site isn’t complete without buttons that have no purpose but to laggily “smooth scroll” to an element a quarter of a page below

@molly0xfff It's not even as cool as dancing hamsters.

@molly0xfff imagine motion sickness

@molly0xfff this is every silicon valley startup marketing copy page

It's how you know they're unserious. IBM doesn't pull that shit.

@molly0xfff Just imagine if they weren't "minimalistic by design"!

@molly0xfff that's gonna give me motion sickness 🤢

@molly0xfff Damn no-js no text no website !!!
but why why why

@molly0xfff Yeah, I'm epileptic and while this doesn't trigger anything (I'm not really photosensitive), it makes me queasy enough to worry. I'm trying to read text that won't stay still and keeps moving past flashing objects...

As I was writing that sentence, I'm thinking maybe I'm not wrong to worry.

@molly0xfff that, parallax and infinite scrolling 🕳️. Oftentimes requested by marketers and/or designers.

@molly0xfff I've had multiple designers insist it "adds to the experience" and none of them can quantify how 🤡

@molly0xfff good old marquees and blinks

@molly0xfff I learnt this was tacky writing PowerPoints at school. It's so nice of them to revive the practice a full quarter century later.

@molly0xfff

> See distracting web page
> Hit Reader mode; junk decimated to beautiful plain-text
> Valuable content? Keep reading. If not, close tab

That's my new web surfing algorithm. Front-eng is better when it's subtle and doesn't fire that mental subroutine.
I love beautiful web sites; not excessive wacky waving inflatable arm flailing web-content.

@molly0xfff Same with apps and iOS tbh, could be so much faster if half the transitions would be shortened or removed.
I tried Reduce Motion for a while, but then you mainly get fades which doesn’t really help.

@molly0xfff There's a big overlap between the people who are impressed with this kind of design and the people who are into cryptocurrency and NFTs. At least they know their audience.

@molly0xfff you should because you could. No longer enough.

@molly0xfff Ugg, I hear that

@molly0xfff especially if it takes not 150ms but like 1s or even longer. I WANT TO READ YOUR STUFF NOT WATCH A MOVIE! (Usually it also is a page which is closed before the text loaded)

@molly0xfff It's the new scrolling banner-text, it can't go out-dated soon enough.

@molly0xfff 21st century <marquee> tag. 🤢

@molly0xfff

Absolutely.

Setting reduced animation in your browser helps but many sites don't respect it.

@molly0xfff

I don't want to see, hear, or even imagine the words "Minimalist by Design" on a page designed by someone who appears to be ignorant of the fact that animation draws attention to itself rather than to the ideas being communicated.

Animated text is nothing like a windowpane.

@molly0xfff I for one like that. However, I think providing both an interactive and "no JavaScript" website (for e.g. Tor users) would be a good trade-off. :Blobhaj:

@molly0xfff hah, this is definitely a "we just got ahold of the Motion library and applied it to literally everything" moment

@molly0xfff if this was the way to go, the first books would have been printed on pig bladders.

@molly0xfff These are Squarespace defaults

@molly0xfff The 3 in Web3 is for seconds per paragraph.

@molly0xfff agreed, mobile sites are the laggiest things on earth these days especially.

@molly0xfff the marquee tag of our times

@molly0xfff this has strong 2010 PowerPoint circles of hell vibes but for the Web3.0 generation

@molly0xfff Nowadays I am happy if they don't hijack my scrolling, make custom scroll bars or force feed me caroussels and background videos.

@molly0xfff the header is not animated.

@molly0xfff I think it is to deal with the shorter and shorter attention span of the current young generation. So the website has to "do something" when you scroll, to give you that dopamine hit.

... we are lost ...

@molly0xfff XHTML 1.0 Strict FTW!

@molly0xfff my AuDHD brain just quits and I leave the site immediately. Usually I can get what ever I need in a more brain friendly space 😬

@molly0xfff

It's a Framer site, and holy smokes, look at the source—it's like looking at Matrix code:

@molly0xfff @siracusa

I go to flea markets occasionally in Japan, and every time I check the calendar on this NPO’s web site, I am reminded of my favorite version of the web: tables & panes haphazardly working together. The Density!

See you at the Maebashi Sports Ground flea market on April 20th!

https://fleamarket.or.jp

@molly0xfff bring back table based layouts without CSS I say /*ducks*/

@molly0xfff Web pages like this make me shut the window.

I despise dancing text.

I despise big everything, scroll much.

It's like they're trying to make me feel very unwelcome.

And it's getting very common to do it like this. I guess I'll only be using a tiny subset of the internet, in the not too distant future.

@molly0xfff I feel like we‘re going to see that trend for like another year before it‘s replaced by a different kind of animation. Everybody is just copying this trend from each other.

@molly0xfff Makes me miss the early web. 🙁

@molly0xfff I can't find the post, but I'm pretty sure someone here coined this scathing invective "pumping the scroll wheel powering an obnoxious marketing hurdy-gurdy".

@molly0xfff flash pages never left us. They just changed their name.

@molly0xfff I miss Geocities.

@molly0xfff Can we have <blink> back please? That would be an improvement…

@molly0xfff ditto

@molly0xfff https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

@molly0xfff This happened to me at a MAC machine the other day. I had to wait a few milliseconds after pressing every button to watch as the next menu item slid into the screen.

@molly0xfff What's worse is that much of the time, those sorts of things also break other standard things like scrollbars and copy-and-paste.

@molly0xfff The othre day, I saw a website with a link to the very next section. (one pg dn away)

@molly0xfff
I find it does the exact opposite when it is used in abundance like that

@molly0xfff we should force everyone back to dialup speed so they can learn to appreciate fast load times

oh wait i'm in australia, the nbn is already doing that for us

@molly0xfff I just saw this one today, a calendar app which buries in it's 4,000 animations that it doesn't support Apple Calendars: https://amie.so

@molly0xfff I hate it.

@molly0xfff I think there is something to be said for silent space. Space where the user can click or wave their mouse about without anything on the screen changing.

@molly0xfff yeah... at that point I back out or smash the readability button. It's so awful - design by fad rather than research.

@molly0xfff Well, you have to cultivate _one_ fine way to push neurodivergent users’ brains into overload while they simply want to peruse your company’s website, no?

@molly0xfff

As a non tech-ie (is that still the preferred term?) when I see that kind of nonsense they immediately lose my eyeballs. If your content is reliable, coherent, and professionally presented, you don't need distraction. Only sub par content requires smoke, mirrors, and dancing bears.