What is the relation between this design and gwern's?
My observation: article is not serif, not book length, and doesn't take a minute to load on my phone. Gwern rating 0/3 :)
(Also missing: the essential one billion footnotes!)
bstsb 13 hours ago|||
grrrr, i hate grayscale backgrounds and simple fonts!
would you rather claude-esque purple gradients and glowing borders?
Avicebron 13 hours ago||
No? There is originality between a fetishization/bastardization of minimalism on one side and cookie cutter LLM web design on the other.
epestr 13 hours ago|||
Is there a trend in increase of minimalistic website which are LLM generated and explicitly made minimal to not seem sloppy?
Avicebron 13 hours ago||
idk, you tell me, I can tell from your blog that you've adopted the trend. I'm probably much older than you, so I've seen the progression of these things since the internet as we know it existed. So I sort of understand the roots of the styling that people are adopting and can see it for what it is, which is trying to signal a minimalism but missing the point in the process.
epestr 12 hours ago|||
I was quite inspired by the content bar of this site: https://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem and gwern. Though I do think my blog isn't particularly all that minimal I try to add a lot of colors to make it look less dull.
hluska 12 hours ago|||
Their website is great, and they’re a student. Back in my day, we supported younger people in the industry regardless of whether they met our personal aesthetic. We used to call that ‘maturity’.
Dylan16807 7 hours ago||
General support is a good default, but they were specifically talking about the aesthetics. If you want them to support the aesthetics regardless of whether they like the aesthetics, that's something but it's not 'maturity'.
hluska 12 hours ago|||
I get that you’re angry, but could you try that one again? It doesn’t make sense.
Celeo 13 hours ago|||
It's pretty much an immediate Firefox Reader Mode toggle for me.
xgulfie 13 hours ago||
I am incredibly bored with this "everything I don't like is slop" trend