feda wrote on 2023-02-23, 00:57:
Dominus wrote on 2023-02-22, 22:39:
AFAIU the change was necessary to bring the website into this decade.
The fuck does that even mean?
The previous decade's website was working normally!
Translation -> our nowadays customers are smombies. They favor "simple" UI (let's remember Metro Apps).
Something they can smear with their fingers over.
Something that doesn't require classic, rational thinking or the cognitive ability for abstraction. ;)
Oh, and it helps if a concept can be understood in less than ~3 seconds.
TikTok style, so to say. The attention time is very short these days.
Edit: The duct tape comparison makes sense, yes.
Ironically, though, intermediate solutions are sometimes those which last the longest.
It's not just a saying, though.
In electronics, an ugly "dead bug" wiring (Ger: Igel-Schaltung, btw) sometimes lasts decades, while a cleanly made PCB version breaks after a couple of years.
Edit: Strictly speaking, we saw this kind of user degeneration in the 90s, already.
Back then, completely uneducated computer users popped up in the landscape.
They had no idea about DOS commands, BATCH programming or GW-BASIC.
Some couldn't even move the mouse properly.
Personally, I think the time is here to provide a separate entrance to the more advanced users.
Mobygames.com should give them some Telnet or SSH login.
Can be a read-only guest login, maybe.
Then, users like us can use the keyboard to retrieve information.
Not unlike the way it was with public libraries. They also used to have serial terminals.
Alternatively, less favorable, revive a Gopher site for MobyGames.
Edit: The good thing is, that this separate entrance is completely.. Separate.
It doesn't affect tze programming of the main site. Screenshots and box arts can be found there.
All "we" want is access to the meta data.
Edit: That being said, I'm just a user, of course.
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