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From: nathansmith <nathansmith@posteo.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 07:26:03 -0600
Subject: Finished up message to web devs

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-<article>
-  <p>
-    I am writing this to go over both the good things and bad things I often
-    come across on small websites, the kind often made by just some random
-    person in a basement. The funny part about it is all the bad things I will
-    go over are not limited to indie websites but are instead echos of the
-    mainstream web that have sadly been leaking into everything else. A lot of
-    what I have to say are things discovered through umatrix. Often times we
-    only see the outside of a website but when using a good content blocker
-    like umatrix, noscript, ublock advanced mode... the inner workings of a
-    website is brought into the light. What I often find isnt pretty. Sometimes
-    a website is themed to look old school but under the hood its just a bunch
-    of modern javascript bullshit and a hell ton of frames. Other times more
-    modern looking websites have little to no javascript and instead use
-    tastefull first party css to get that look.
-  </p>
-
-  <h4>Please dont hot link</h4>
-  <p>
-    From what I have seen neocities users love to abusive hot linking all the way
-    to the deepest depths of hell. Every single button, blinky, gif, meme... on
-    their frontpage is hot linked. Its perfectly ok to make your viewers suffer
-    with too much of that shit. I do the same. But <b>please download all the
-    images and gifs into your image folder instead of hot linking
-    them</b>. Here is why:
-  </p>
-  <ul>
-    <li>Hot linking puts strain on the sites you link to.</li>
-    <li>Hot linking makes your site handle link rot poorly.</li>
-    <li>Hot linking annoys the fuck out of people using any type of addon or
-    browser feature that disables third party images. We do it to stop tracking
-    pixels and things of that nature.</li>
-  </ul>
-
-  <h4>Please limit your use of javascript</h4>
-  <p>
-    <b>Its best to not use javascript at all.</b> Though if you are addicted to
-    the drug javascript and cant help yourself at least try to limit your use
-    of it. That means <b>all static content needs to be accessible without
-    javascript</b>. No using javascript for fancy drop downs, no using
-    javascript to handle your layout, no using javascript just to get text and
-    images into the screen, no using javascript for basic animations...
-  </p>
-</article>
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