Remember 2012, 10 years ago, when we had video playing, video chats, web email, and all that stuff? And it worked fine on a laptop with 2GB of RAM and a cheap 2-core processor?

Now it's 2022, we're doing all the same stuff, but it's all so much worse! How is Microsoft Teams so bad? What changed? What happened?!?

It feels like all technology is built to run at a barely-acceptable level on some devs maxed-out work station. I am reminded of how much I hate the web every time I have to use it.

Except very few sites, like jstpst. Every time I am on jstpst I feel so happy. This is how I want all of the web to be. I feel like I'm on a site from 2005, in the best of ways. Every day I am grateful for jstpst

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hollyhoppet wrote on February 11, 2022 at 7:53 PM (edited on February 11, 2022 at 7:53 PM)

the advent of the "hey sign up" "here's a support chat box" "how are you enjoying the site?" lightboxes and overlays herald the doom of the web

emma wrote on February 11, 2022 at 5:53 PM

that's a nice, lightweight website you have there. would be a shame if the new york times crossword department heard about it.

voxpoplar wrote on February 11, 2022 at 5:59 PM

I saved an offline backup of Wordle after I saw the news that the NYT bought it.

voxpoplar wrote on February 11, 2022 at 7:47 PM

as oasis of posts

Moonside wrote on February 12, 2022 at 7:22 PM

What I like about jstpst is that

it's public
it's dynamic enough that I can actually contribute to - that is, post on to - it easily.
I don't need to write a blog to get my thoughts out.
Its design is clean (if unexciting)
it has new content everyday but not too much.
I have also customized its style to my liking - a lot actually, basically transformed it - so it's pleasant to use.