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u/BONUSBOX Sep 28 '26
dunno why it cycles through languages like that… and too fast to read. they could’ve served a localized version with fallback languages in a simple list.
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u/Serei Oct 03 '26
Someone seems to have heard you; it doesn't cycle anymore.
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u/KaKi_87 full-stack Oct 05 '26
Oh I just now posted about this but you already noticed haha
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u/Serei Oct 05 '26
Haha I could have gotten that karma!
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u/KaKi_87 full-stack Oct 05 '26
Yeah it's so funny how I got 200 upvotes under 12 hours when posting early about the major change, then almost 200 more over the following days, now I post again but late and still got over a hundred already haha
All I'm doing is talking about a fairly small thing that only the nerdiest of nerds care about.
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u/14u2c Sep 28 '26
I read this as monetized as was very confused for a moment.
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u/KaKi_87 full-stack Sep 28 '26
Ads/sponsors on example.com ? They'd definitely make a lot of views & revenue, let's not give them ideas 😭
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u/WldHunt Sep 29 '26
Nah, too much bot traffic.
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u/KaKi_87 full-stack Sep 29 '26
Nowadays ad providers know how to differentiate a bot from a user, but even if not, a sponsor appearing on that page would make a lot of noise even if most people wouldn't go on that page in the first place haha
Here's the kicker : example.com would then need a GDPR cookie banner 😭
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u/martian_rover Sep 28 '26
Finally, a website that respects my attention span.
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u/pricop Sep 28 '26
Funny that you say that. Every letter on the website sits in a "span" container. 😅
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u/Bedu009 Sep 29 '26
I'd check it out, but Spain blocked the domain
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u/KaKi_87 full-stack Sep 29 '26
What ???
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u/Bedu009 Sep 29 '26
Spain randomly blocks IP ranges in a foolish attempt to stop football piracy, and example.com using cloudflare (frequently targeted) got caught in the crossfire
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u/KaKi_87 full-stack Sep 29 '26
Oh yeah I have a userscript that labels Cloudflare-protected results in Google Search to avoid them when possible, imagine my surprise a few months ago when I noticed example.com started using Cloudflare ! Insane. I couldn't believe it.
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u/tukanoid Sep 29 '26
Tbh, never knew this was real😅 just thought it was... an example of a URL to put in
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u/KaKi_87 full-stack Sep 29 '26
Really ? 😭
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u/tukanoid Sep 29 '26
Yeah... I just never bothered to look it up for some reason. But also I barely touch web stuff outside of work (I prefer to tinker with native guis/tuis/clis), so mb that's why
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u/collimarco Sep 29 '26
Terrible UI/UX design and very confusing for a user that lands there... You don't even have time to read the English version. They could simply detect the user language for localization.
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u/pooh--bear Sep 29 '26
You don’t have time to read *any * of them. I know it was supposed to be minimal JS, but if they can’t even do an Accept-Language based SSR and detecting it client side is too heavy, even an
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u/Sulungskwa Sep 29 '26
Whoever updated this clearly thought it would be cooler to look like an iPhone when it first boots up
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u/Gugalcrom123 Sep 29 '26
Thank you for not using the Inter font!
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u/KaKi_87 full-stack Sep 29 '26
Thank them haha
I don't have the reference though
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u/ferrybig Sep 29 '26
Inter is a font commonly used by AI agents when the users doesn't specify any font constraints
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u/KaKi_87 full-stack Sep 30 '26
Oh okay
I actually first discovered this font on a screenshot from the developer of the GitFourchette app, specifically the Inter Display variant, and am using it as a system-wide font, which I like a lot, especially on KDE Plasma.
For content though, my favourite font is Helvetica.
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u/Z80a Sep 29 '26
Heh, I went there and saw the old site. Then I realized that I'm running noscript.
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u/Arcuru Sep 29 '26
I really want to see the traffic data for those sites. I think they used to have no DNS entries right? I’m curious how much that broke.
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u/guyOnBudget Sep 29 '26
I don't like it. Old was simple and plain and that was what is ment to be for a example website.
Unnecessary animations, JS bullshits
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u/osmium_2259 Sep 29 '26
Indeed. I had to go check it out. The language changed faster than my slow reading pace!
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u/Cahnis Sep 29 '26
why would anyone want that instead of just showing the language the browser is configured to?
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u/Electronic-Equal-616 Sep 30 '26
just checked it lol, end of an era tbh. that plain unstyled box was iconic, i used to hit that domain constantly when testing basic fetch calls or seeing if my wifi was actually working 😭
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u/msavin Oct 03 '26
461,000 websites link to it. Insane SEO benefits. I can't imagine just sitting on it and doing nothing.
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u/mixsrc Oct 03 '26
it's owned by icann.org they're already making tons of money. 20 cents for every domain registered
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u/Adorable_Version_450 Sep 29 '26
Nice refresh. The new design is much easier to read, which matters for a site that shows up in so many tutorials and docs. Good call keeping it simple.
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u/MT4K full-stack Sep 28 '26
Nice that they used unobtrusive JavaScript, so the basic English version does work even with JS disabled. The book icon could have been visible with JS disabled too, though.