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  jchw
  Should load much slower.Also, where is the unrelated autoplaying video that will unmute if you actually click it, that follows your scrolling and only becomes smaller when you dismiss it? Plus, it should probably have text that cuts off letting you know you can have access for just $10/month.Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's that at?edit: Oh shoot! I forgot, too. This modal needs to also ensure there is absolutely no way to scroll. If you could scroll you might be able to accidentally get to the address bar of your browser to fix the URL to xcancel or even close the page, which isn't using the app as you are intended to do.Also, it doesn't attempt to hijack the back button to give me stuff I clearly wanted to see before I leave the page.A lot of work left to do here before it's a "real" website. Although, it has about as much substance as the average website so far, so good work on that.
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  idopmstuff
  I started an e-commerce brand on a Shopify site. I swore to myself I would never put up one of those stupid things that pops up "Someone bought X product an hour ago!" messages in the corner of the screen.I ended up trying it. Boosted conversion rate meaningfully. Worth the price I pay in mild self-loathing.Chesterton's popup, I guess.
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  WarmWash
  Loaded way too fast and is way too responsive.Also when I checked NoScript, it's only loading js from lxe.github.ioI expect there to be at minimum 8 domains, but often 12-18.
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  2b3a51
  I'm filing a bug report...Steps to reproduce: Open terminal emulator and type;$ w3m https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/I can read the same content as I can read in Firefox.What I expected to happen: See content similar to the following;Update your browser Your browser isn't supported any more. To continue your search, upgrade to a recent version. Learn more
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  kwertyoowiyop
  Needs a Google login popup, required for any site that there is no reason at all to have an account with.
• VCFundedGenYer
  Some graybeard advice - Any time you need to use a website that doesn't require active cognitive interaction - click the button in your browser that enables Reader View to get the content and strip out everything else. It's not perfect, but it makes the web more usable (especially on mobile, my goodness it's gotten bad).Firefox also has an extension called "Auto Reader View" in which you can set sites to automatically change to that mode.
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  RivieraKid
  The cookie thing, I assume it's EU-only, is an example of the EU policy making process being fundamentally broken in some way. If you create a flawed policy and don't fix it many years after it's very visibly obvious that it's a bad policy, something is really wrong.
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  RattlesnakeJake
  That "In case you're not aware, there's COVID-19 happening" banner isn't nearly tall nor yellow enough. Given a 6-inch-tall screen, the proper layout would be: +-----------------+ |2" of vestigial | |COVID messaging | +-----------------+ |1.5" of actual | | content | +-----------------+ |2.5 of EU | | cookie banner | +-----------------+ A local utility took it even further during COVID: +---------------------+ |2" of COVID messaging| +---------------------+ |1" of undismissable | | "our app is gone; | | use the mobile site | | that you're on now" | +---------------------+ |0.5" of content | +---------------------+ |2.5" of EU cookie | | banner, despite | | being a US-only corp| +---------------------+
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  cg5280
  So many websites do popups and it feels so anti-user. Maybe I get unusually annoyed, but I do not need a Gemini popup ad in Google Docs. Just let me do what I came to the website to do!
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  andy99
  Needs to autoplay a video which when dismissed just moves to another window and continues playing. With sound.
• fantasizr
  it's funny sometimes there will be an archived espn.com (like this https://proxy.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/030418) and it's hard to argue the web was not better like this, i.e. readable
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  tedggh
  As feedback, you made that popup way too clean and easy to close. That’s not how it works in reality. You need to make the background transparent and the X so small it’s technically impossible to hit. Also think about adding an ad and a timer and move the popup slightly after N ms so that the user always hits the ad.
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  trevithick
  I like it. Reminds me of this: https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/
• s08148692
  It's a bit 2025. Needs a scroll hijack background animation and cursor effects to be up to date for 2026
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  peesem
  inaccurate, i don't have to go three screens deep into a modal to choose only necessary cookies
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  spottedmarley
  No endless scroll? What the hell am I supposed do I do with my mouse wheel?? Useless!
• zelphirkalt
  Any web dev reading these comments and understanding what the comments express, should know: If you have built any of these dark patterns and anti-features, the annoyance and loathing expressed here is what you are responsible for, and this is how you made people feel about the website you took part in building. By implementing such stuff, you are personally part of the responsible group of people for making this crap. You personally have managed to make this planet a worse place and make your website shit. Given that these days basically 95% or more of websites push this shit, it is safe to assume, that there are many of such web devs in our midst, who are responsible. Congratulations for ruining the web.
• jonplackett
  I made a game about this. You can play it if you want to feel annoyed.https://termsandconditions.game
• coldpie
  Yeah. I've written about this a few times, with some suggestions for how to make it marginally less miserable to visit a website:"Take back your web browser screen space with Kill Sticky" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web..."Quick Tips For Making The Internet Suck Less" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/08/01/tips-for-making-th..."Web browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-...
• CM30
  Let's not forget the generic images using either corporate memphis or AI. Or the lazy loading that makes it impossible to reach the footer. Or in some cases, numerous videos and animations that have no purpose other than looking flashy, along with a big slideshow/carousel at the top.
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  smaudet
  Serious answer:Bootstrap.That framework did more damage to web design than any other framework. Yeah, its nice that you can spin up a page in a second that looks like every other page on the internet, wait a minute...Technical answer:CSSIt was a nice idea, and it sure beat hand-designing each and every page (wait a second, weren't/aren't we doing that all over again?).It did/does too much, and was mostly in lieu of a common repository of UI stuff, so people found One Way that it would work reasonably well on most browsers/devices, and so bootstrap was born...
• anon
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• yassa9
  Yea , thank u , I really despite those websites of current web, much JS, colors, much images and animations with mouse, and million fonts , rounded buttons and everything is rounded and "modern" and slow and bloated why cant have we simple websites, small coherent nice color palette to just read and know the needed info ? hackernews is extremely good example suckless: https://suckless.org/sucks/web/ is another brilliant example
• bilekas
  How will the poor analytics companies pay their poor salaries? And how will people be able to know to advertise to me about a pair of shorts I looked up last month??
• polishdude20
  Even my back button was hijacked for a second. Nice attention to detail!
• buzzin__
  How hard could it be to write a greasemonkey script that will send the current html/Javascript from hell to a LLM with a prompt that will ask you which of the detected annoying elements you want to remove, and then will create and install another GM script that is removing those elements from this site, and also invent finglonger as a side effect. A man can dream, though. A man can dream.
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  aavci
  I don't see any answers here with a link to best practices or a grading system or something promoting clean websites. What can be done in this space?You get things rating accessibility, methodologies for building apps but nothing about standards for website quality?
• dstanko
  I may be skeptical, so take this with a grain of salt. The transformation happened when someone decided to stop being UI designer, to become UX designer. That wasn't enough, so they came up with XD - experience design. At every step of the way, they introduced more lofty goals for the design to justify the increased importance of themselves.
• nphardon
  A while back I realized that it was just the browser keeping me on screen when I didn't want to be. I switched to the purely native Safari app on my phone, from a highly customized ad blocking browser, with lots of content filtering. My screen time dropped from like 2 hours a day to like 10 minutes.
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  wktmeow
  Yea but do you guys remember when we actually needed pop up blockers to avoid having a site spawn like 10 new windows behind the current one, and tabs didn’t really exist yet, and the popups had adult content and sometimes they autoplayed sound/video? Like, internet explorer 6 era? Sometimes I miss those days
• donatj
  We've got the stupid chat bubble at the bottom.We didn't want it, it's like a megabyte of JavaScript. It's some third party service corporate forced on us.I have to imagine a lot of websites are in the same boat, where they're just add crap they don't want to add by higher ups.
• freediver
  Answer: ads as the main business model running the web since 25 years ago and us accepting the convenience of 'free'.It turns out everything has a price, and in more recent times we started noticing that our time, attention and intelligence not being insulted also has value.
• jmmv
  Somehow the clicking around reminded me of Windows RG. Go check this old relic if you have never seen it: https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg . Turn the volume up!
• aspectmin
  Sigh. A good user experience for the web is just out the door isn't it? Max enshittification. Makes me so sad - it could be so much better.
• rob74
  (2019) ** according to the copyright notice, although, going by the mention of Covid, it could also be 2020?
• clintmcmahon
  Is the beef with the design or the pop ups, chatbot, banner, etc?If it's the design, not everyone is a web designer so the bootstrap theme is great to get up off the ground.If it's the other stuff then, yeah, totally.
• poetry-leading
  Reminds me of https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/
• MBCook
  Every paragraph (maybe sentence) needs to fade in as I attempt to scroll. If I can read the first paragraph easily when the page loads (ignoring the pop-ups) then the website is too well designed.
• anon
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• simondanerd
  There's a distinct lack of ads, you're not done quite yet.
• charles_f
  You forgot the sign-up "CTA" button bold and wide, with a microscopic "Sign-in" button somewhere in the footer.
• t1234s
  The worst patterns:1) scroll hijacking (this should be a felony) 2) stupid cookie popups/banners 3) useless hero images (clients love them, users hate them)
• mrmckizzle
  It needs a feature that disables the whole page and prevents you from using it if it detects you are using Forefox.
• lxe
  I made this 6 years ago but it still applies today.
• mawadev
  Beautiful engineering, it is modern art. I missed the very slow skeletons in between and the particle webgl stuff
• bigbuppo
  The interstitial popup needs to be delayed until about 750ms after the first scroll action for that extra insult.
• rc_kas
  Damn, yeah this is exactly how I make my websites look.
• duxup
  Cookie banners are a great example of regulation gone wrong.Me having to make a legal agreement with every website is absurd and totally predictable.
• j9feng
  If the traffic to the site drops dramatically because of the “features”, we would have seen the features removed already.
• messh
  There are more creative ones. Check out https://shellbox.dev
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  JKCalhoun
  Yeah, I hand-rolled my site. Not even Google analytics. I have absolutely no idea if anyone even visits my site.Oh well.
• dansitu
  Maybe also it could randomly jump to different vertical scroll positions while you are reading an article?
• wxw
  I kinda miss the CSS bootstrap aesthetic.
• alpha_trion
  Needs more jank from a bajillion ads loading. :D Kidding aside, this is hilarious and made my morning
• Retr0id
  Bootstrap, what a blast from the past! They just don't make bad websites like they used to.
• ChipopLeMoral
  Missing some spammy "article" links with AI generated images.
• m3047
  Well that's pathetic, only three new FQDNs. Two of them are on CF, one on AWS. Where are the effing CNAME chains?And this is something which I learned which is surprising to me: github.com resolves to AWS. WTF? GH has its own netname and a /20. It's literally one hop, somehow, from my ISP. WTF? It's not MS and it's this shite? WTF?
• heyitsmedotjayb
  It needs to present a happy moose to you if you don't use an adblocker
• ratelimitsteve
  I wasn't asked for my location, notifications, camera permissions or to log in. This is, regrettably, still better than most recipe websites I visit.
• hk1337
  If it works, keep it. If it doesn't work, remove it.
• amelius
  Apple.com looks ok. It doesn't have the cookie banner.
• RobLach
  Only gotten worse.
• agumonkey
  it's missing the google sso popup, the close buttons are not anti-pattern enough, and the cookie banner still lets me use the site too muchgood job though
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  Cameri
  Not enough ads!
• wseqyrku
  I can ignore all this except for the cookie banner, it is a technical issue and the likes of google in the industry are responsible to solve rather than letting marketing or product get "creative" with it. This is pretty stupid and we all should be embarrassed by the fucking mess that we created for everyone.
• jsharf
  We need a special version mocking recipe websites
• snawazzee
  I knew it wont work but still I tried to enter a message in chat window and click enter. (And it didn't worked)
• improgrammer007
  I use Brave browser and even that didn’t help.
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  gnarlouse
  Why would you make this. I feel traumatized.
• jedbrooke
  it’s missing spinners for 5-10 seconds while it loads endless megabytes of javascript doing who knows what.Seriously how did we get to this point? I remember growing up in the 2000’s and all the marketing about computers was “it’s fast!” and “get results instantly!” that kind of thing. Now everything it gated by multiple spinners, then it loads a skeleton, then it partially loads your actual content, then, when you go to click on something, more content loads and the existing content jumps to a new place and you end up clicking on something else, meaning now you have to go back (if they haven’t hijacked the back button), wait for it all to load again, wait for the second “real” load, and then click on what you actually meant to click on in the first place.
• aavci
  Where is the ‘sign in with google’ pop up?
• anon
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• motbus3
  It should also detect the ad blocker
• Havoc
  Also on iPhones Twitter appears to have aligned their privacy reject button with where their open in app overlay appears just a second later so that you hit that instead.Too many people working on evil dark pattern bullshit
• anon
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• sublinear
  Not true.The web is more than blogspam, SaaS, the most desperate cases of ecommerce, and the web versions of legacy newspapers/magazines.
• skewuo
  >Scroll >Popup >Close >Popup >Close >GDPRdamn
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  programmarchy
  Really needs a 20MB video playing in the background of the hero.
• TuxPowered
  Every Fucking Website 2026:- Paragraphs emerge from the background as you scroll, sometimes only after 3/4 of your screen is empty.- Some paragraphs are hidden until you expand them. You can’t expand more than one at a time.- Horizontal scrolling for some items, like e.g. meal categories in a restaurant. The buttons for the scrolling are different on each site, or are dots you must click on.
• jdthedisciple
  needs more unexpected layout shifts ;)
• donio
  In 2026 instead of "Here's some stuff we wrote that you won't read." it's "Here's some slop we couldn't be bothered to write but why don't you read it."
• _superposition_
  This is perfect.
• maqp
  I can't believe I'm not able to buy Every Fucking Website Premium with business focused ads and native advertising masquerading as quasi-educational infotainment. Also where's the sign-up with Spybook?
• fuzzy_dunlopp
  SmallWeb ftw!
• reality_inspctr
  No agents.md?
• chrisjj
  Did I miss "We share your PPI with 1786 partners" ?
• ChrisArchitect
  A more current version of this: https://everyfuckingwebsite.com/
• josefritzishere
  This is completely accurate. I see it every day.
• 0xbadcafebee
  Needs a shopping cart that when you click submit, does nothing, requiring you to open web dev tools to discover the silent 503 error, with no way to report the error. Bonus points for a bank account, credit card or retirement fund
• croes
  The cookie banner should have the option to change the cookies but you have to deselect the trackers one by one
• tonymet
  It’s missing a “we stand with the current thing “ flag and a compliance prompt for community standards.Also 1.5gb of heap allocated minimum
• anon
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• morkalork
  Needs the floating video thumbnail with auto-play and sound. Also the requests for location and permission to send notifications dialogs in chrome!
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  martythemaniak
  For my current project, I tried going with a non-traditional style I personally liked, I call it "Soft Neo Brutalism". You can see it at: http://www.frost-e.comI generally wanted web 1.0 simplicity, lots of contrast, but also a soft gentle colours and modern vibe. I also have a general design for use in dashboards/apps etc: https://frost-e.com/design-system/
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  monxer
  Every Fucking Website not created by Claude. Otherwise it would have a dark gray background with transparant rounded buttons with a neon border.
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  1dom
  This feels about 2 - 5 years out of date now. There isn't enough dark theme with slop-neon accents.
• tonymet
  neal.fun did it better
• bookstore-romeo
  very sorry for the joke, but isn’t every regular website also like this?[1] 1: https://xkcd.com/90/
• apple4ever
  Fucking dickovers. The modern web sucks.
• dorianpruski
  missing carousel
• andai
  Trump 2020! I hate puppies!
• phoghed
  Should request push notification and local network access lol
• insane_dreamer
  missing the popup to "SAVE 10% ON YOUR NEXT ORDER" by giving your phone number, with no "No Thanks" button, and the X button to close the popup is almost invisible in the corner so you think there's no way to get rid of it other than entering your number
• ajam1507
  Needs an annoying header that changes size as you scroll.
• jere
  monkey's paw curls
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  dangjustintime
  This is actually good boilerplate. lol
• hbcdbff
  Not enough AI slop
• steffi_oliver
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• hizyyo
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• rocketpop
  [dead]
• anon
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• hellojomp
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• lxe
  lol
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  gib444
  Because it works(AIUI "I agree" gets people to give explicit consent with good success and the subscribe modals are quite effective too)
• lifestyleguru
  Cookie banners are malicious compliance. There are only 1-2 EU countries with quarrelsome predatory lawyers proactively scanning the web.The positives about covid and AI is that we don't hear anymore about blockchain and crypto (well, except one boomer oligarch holding onto it). Just please make the next two big things happen already for God's sake.
• frail_figure
  Just a quick reminder that you don't need to put up any cookie banners at all if you simply don't track your users in a privacy-invading way.