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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites (fd93.me)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I.d rather take any website than being continuously forced to download apps, or being told to go to Facebook for some business's information.

There's 2 things a website should respect - simple do it more often -, and not doing these will earn you my wrath:

you should be able to at least zoom/shrink text. Some websites have things so locked down, I can never read their teeny tiny text. Fuck you ESPN. Why would you let desktop zoom, and stop it on mobile where my screen is smaller and I most need it? (I'll leave alone the original intent of the web of separating presentation from content for another day).
Browser Back button should take you back to the previius 'page'. I'm terrified to use it because you're really showing multiple 'pages' on 1 real page, so who knows where I'll end up.