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In a way, I miss the naive old web. Now you get popups, requests to have your location, prompts to sign in before you can get deals, etc. In many ways a simple web form asking for pizza is a better user experience.

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Imo, whatever annoying tradeoffs a commercialized web brought with it, it was wholly worth it for giving literally anybody the ability to learn anything they are curious about.

1080p Harvard compsci lectures[0] available for free would have been a pipe dream in 1995.

[0] https://youtu.be/e9Eds2Rc_x8

I agree It's pretty amazing what a resource the web has become, but I don't think it's all that clear what trade-offs have been made, and if the implications of those are just mere annoyances.

Well that was a weird 1 minute and 20 second intro.

I prefer the pizza website "requests to have [my] location" than asks me manually to input my zip code (not like you can't do the latter, anyway).

I had a similar thought when I landed on the site. On the other hand, some features/trends of modern websites could improve some aspects of our user experience. For instance, automatically getting my location could be sometimes useful. Makes me think where the optimal middle ground is.

When ready to order, I agree. However, when browsing for what's available, it's a frustrating experience. The last time I wanted to see prices from Papa Johns, I couldn't. They want you to sign in with your pizza profile, which I didn't have. Ok fine, enter your zip code, then pick delivery or pickup, then pick the store. Why do I need to do all of this to see prices? It more often than not just makes me skip it and move on to a competitor...

Because after all that typing you are already invested and its hard to let go all this work to waste, might as well just order and be done with it.

Hypnospace Outlaw came out this year, it's a game where you're basically an internet cop/mod in the early 90s. Pretty well done

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