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Please, Fix This Shitty Website

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17 pointsartofbryce22 comments

I tried to nominate http://fixthisshittywebsite.com, but unfortunately it was so unusable I wasn't actually able to submit my comments. So I guess I'll have to list the sins here:

- Input form text is unreadably set against loud, colorful background.

- "http://" ghost text in URL input is not actually ghost text, it stays after you paste a URL with "http" in it.

- Styling of the above is off

- Force me to pick one of the three arbitrary checkbox options, even when none apply (not even a little) and I've listed the problems in detail in the text area.

Some version of Muphry's Law I guess.

I tried (and eventually succeeded) to do the same. My problem was being forced to check one of the boxes even though none of them really applied. I ended up checking the third box and provided my own alternate meaning. The really funny part was that the "thank you" message after submitting was black text on that partially black background image. :)

ahahahahahah I tried the same

https://i.imgur.com/dYcPDkX.png

This website is clearly in the tradition of websites about websties, c.f.:

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

https://bestmotherfucking.website/

This website is essentially 6 lines of text and a web form. This could be implemented in, say, 25 kilobytes of PHP code.

Your website took around 6 seconds to load, weighs 3.5MB and requires my machine to pull data from about 17 different domains.

I realize that you (assuming you are the author of this site) are mostly just following current web design trends (single page websites) so I'm not putting the blame squarely on you, but how is this even remotely reasonable? Honestly, I prefer the average 90's website to this.

I have to admit that I cannot figure out the purpose of this. Did I miss an 'about' section or something? What happens with the nominated sites?

I am not sure ether. I think they are looking for leads on work.

Looks like public shaming, like peeple.com was going to be, but for websites.

Maybe it's just a stress relief tool. Like you want to vent your frustration with a dumb site, so you can. Meanwhile it just pipes all input to /dev/null.

This site itself is an epitome of the bland website design.

Tell us more

It's a single page website, http://i.imgur.com/EQmCc0L.png

1.7M & 5s initial load time, for 1266 content characters...ouch. I'm not a big fan of 'bloat-because-we-can'

So, while this website isn't particularly great and I don't see nominating... anything... on it as being helpful, I'd like to nominate every government website out there that attempts to help society.

An example of this is affordable housing. While sites like Padmapper* and Live Lovely* are killing it in the UX and UI departments, government equivalents are clunky and hard to use.

And, while different rental sites include income restricted units, they have incomplete listings compared to government vendor websites like Social Serve*.

Especially in my area, a lot of people don't even know they qualify for affordable housing and, if they do know, they have inadequate tools for searching for and managing any potential units that come onto the market.

[1] https://www.padmapper.com/apartments/new-york-ny?box=-74.232...

[2] https://livelovely.com

[3] http://www.socialserve.com/tenant/CA/index.html?ch=sjc

69 requests, 4.6 MB, 20 second load time. Fix yours first.

Not going to lie, I nominated Facebook for having fake news and advertisements.

Really? I nominated fixthisshittywebsite.com. I thought everyone else did.

As far as social media websites go, Facebook has the best UX in my opinion. Twitter however...and don't get me started on Linkedin...or Reddit.

Just nominated http://www.msn.com/

TBF, it's optimized for IE/Edge (browser).

What happens after I nominate a website? I'm not sure what the follow-up is. Does it go on a list? Generate a leaderboard? Send leads to this Matthias guy?

so what actually gets done with the submissions? I will admit, when I first got started out freelancing we (my business partner and I) would find local businesses with outdated websites and offer our services, touting mobile/responsive as a selling point. Perhaps this is a way of crowdsourcing the same?

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