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All you need is this motherfucking website: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Actually you need a tiny bit more: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com

Getting there! https://bestmotherfucking.website/

The first two were actually making a good point. This website (yours, presumably) is just jumping on the bandwagon and sticking an affiliate link in it. I'm not against affiliate links, but this site lacks substance.

HTTPS and full contrast text are important. The 2nd attempt is a downgrade from the first. This 3rd attempt is an actual improvement.

Honestly, I can't stand websites that decide to waste 70% of screen estate. I can see the first site almost without scrolling. It is 2 to 3 pages on the other iterations.

The only things I may agree with is https and zipping.

"Fits on all your shitty screens" Does mean that it FITS ON ALL YOUR SHITTY SCREENS. Mine is a 1920x1080 (which is the minimal nowadays) and the 2nd and third iterations DO NOT FIT IT.

That thing around the web page, it is called a fucking window. It resizes. I'll do that if I want your fucking column-format.

The second one is the only one that puts any effort into actual legibility. There's a nice comfortable amount of space between the lines! The text doesn't render right at the edge of the page! There are MARGINS and WHITESPACE.

If you just take your browser's defaults for all the typographical stuff like that, everything looks like trash.

The affiliate link does kind of bother me, but the rest of the page is pretty good. Especially about keeping real black as your font color.

If I was the owner of motherfucking.website I would also take requests at better.motherfucking.website and best.motherfucking.website.

And a very tiny bit of additional polish (which would make a good basis for, say, browser defaults), IMO, even better: https://codepen.io/dredmorbius/full/KpMqqB/

14 style rulesets.

I think it would be better without the horizontal lines.

I remember one of my dev friends showed me this when jQuery was taking off. The site has changed over the years because back in the day when I first saw it, he was railing against using too much javascript - specifically jQuery.

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