https://marxists.org is just fine
I dont know much about web design but the site is probably burdened by being very old. The layout is executed using a combination of classes and CSS but most of what an article needs is baked into the HTML spec these days. For example <aside> tags and stuff. There are custom CSSs for the website on GitHub and they turn out to be more complicated than expected because of how the pages are designed.</aside>
It’s not. Works by various authors have different html formatting that make it very difficult to consistently scrape. Splitting works into several pages makes it impossible to send them to pocket (or FOSS equivalents). It sucks for anything other than reading in their website.
Is this some coding meme that I’m too much of a layman to understand?
I think it’s basically making fun of marxists.org having garish UX
It does have a certain charm to it I will admit, but it is an inconsistent mess and could be a lot cleaner in my opinion.
HTML is like the AK47 of web design. It does the job and respects the user.
Marxists can stop enshittification. Simple HTML websites embody the proletarian spirit.
Anything more than a plain html website is bourgeois decadence.
i am pro website brutalism ( pretty cool website i found that collects this aesthetic https://brutalistwebsites.com/ )
Tbh, I love minimal websites. This could be my nostalgia speaking, though. Nevertheless, small websites means less bandwidth requirements for our comrades with slow internet.
Plus, text-focused websites tend to be higher quality and actually have meaningful content.
I’m all for minimalism, but I don’t think that has to be at odds with the site looking nice and clean. Lemmy is a good example of a site that looks pretty minimal, but also looks nice visually.
Maybe something like this? https://github.com/muxelplexer/marxists-org-dark-stylized
Better and consistent styling would definitely help, but it would be nice to have good search, better navigation, etc. It’d be great to take all the content from marxists.org and shove it into a modern content management system.
