The Unbearable Sameness of the Modern Web

Another in the thread of "Make the Web Weird Again!"!

Also, it’s BORING. It’s BORING AS HELL. Guh, bring back interesting websites, bring back the creativity that the web offers. Bring back frontend devs who aren’t afraid to get down with the mouse event handlers!!

There is so much room for creative expression on the web! Standardizing UIs makes sense for large software companies — but please, let’s hold the line with the WWW also being a space for you and me to make weird little sites.

I honestly have that same kind of reaction not just to UI frameworks as the author highlights but whenever I see the common concoction of social contagion. Infinite scroll feeds and engagement actions. Enough already. Somebody do something interesting!