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The Web Is Fucked (thewebisfucked.com)

submitted 1 year ago by kglitch@kglitch.social to c/webdev@programming.dev

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The web is fucked and there’s nothing we can do about it. Kev Quirk looks back fondly at Web 1.0.

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[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think it's time for a new standard to replace HTML and Javascript for the web that formalizes all the most used functions and gives developers way less freedom to make a crappy website.

Alternatively train AI to recognize crappy websites and severely punish them in search.

Or use AI to reformat websites into something user friendly. Considering the coding skills of GPT-4, I don't think that's too far away.

Between GDPR prompts, auto-generated articles, banner ads, normal ads, filler content, related articles, the web has become unusable.

Really it's Google's fault for not cracking down on these practices. And their competitiors for not doing so either.

Search engines in general have become beyond useless. I barely find anything anymore and it's not just the fault of bad web design. Even if the search results followed human friendly design, they don't even contain anything related to my search.

My only hope is that retrieval-augmented LLMs can fix this mess. Basically they read all these crappy websites for you and extract the actually useful information.

[–] garlic@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

Replacing HTML and JavaScript does nothing to stop people from creating bad websites. People would still post auto-generated content or ads, filler content, related articles, etc... And having LLMs summarize bad content will only give you a shortened version of bad content.

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