[HN Gopher] There Is No Website
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There Is No Website
Author : xk4rim
Score : 73 points
Date : 2024-08-16 21:51 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.thereisnoweb.site)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.thereisnoweb.site)
| loa_in_ wrote:
| It's a React powered feat of minimalism!
| janice1999 wrote:
| > We _highly_ recommend using Chrome!
|
| Er... what does this mean? Firefox is not supported? If so, the
| author should just say that.
| lionkor wrote:
| Ah, yes, the web: Infinitely cross platform and portable,
| except "this website will only work if you run the js with this
| specific js interpreter, and also we dont know how to do css so
| we used very platform specific css, and also our html is not
| complaint but Chrome doesn't care, and also... but its cross
| platform. Its the web, it runs anywhere!"
| shreddit wrote:
| But who is to blame? I, the one who has amount x of time and
| wants to reach the maximum amount of people? Or the browser
| vendors for just doing the bare minimum to be compatible with
| each other but nothing more. The browser vendors do have a
| lot more manpower (and money) than me...
| whatshisface wrote:
| Firefox is the libre alternative struggling to compete with
| the Google behemoth which adds things to its browser even
| faster than they appear in the standard. Safari is the
| underfunded child of a corporation as wealthy as Google. It
| is mainly the first that motivates web developer
| solidarity.
| cyanydeez wrote:
| Its struggling in part because it decided it needed to do
| a bunch of non browser things.
| int0x29 wrote:
| Firefox isn't really making enough in donations to
| maintain a major piece of web infrastructure. So it gets
| search revenue from Google, which people complain about
| (and may not be long term sustainable). So they go make
| other paid for things looking for revenue, which people
| complain about.
| immibis wrote:
| Who was to blame for the Internet Explorer monopoly? This
| is just the same thing again.
| quohort wrote:
| How difficult is it to test your site on the 3 major
| browser engines? I have done some web development before
| and when I'm on linux, I just test my site with chromium,
| firefox, and epiphany.
|
| I think the onus is on the developer to use standards that
| are well supported and to try to avoid standards like
| webUSB that are niche. To use semantic HTML and such so
| that the website fails in a more useful way to the end user
| when the standards aren't supported.
| marcosdumay wrote:
| > How difficult is it to test your site on the 3 major
| browser engines?
|
| Given that one of those 3 requires sending thousands of
| dollars a year to Apple, I'd say "very".
|
| Also, given that Google is a monopoly, I do place the
| onus on them to at minimum warn developers that they are
| deviating from well supported standards.
| marcosdumay wrote:
| Unless it's due to Firefox not supporting some reasonable
| standard, it's Google's fault.
|
| The only thing one can possibly blame on the developer is
| the wording.
| cyanydeez wrote:
| Alas, broqs3rs are unable to do what every other universal
| run everywhete tech cannot do either.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| This isn't a very scathing point when it comes to hobby
| projects where someone has limited time to test in multiple
| configurations, so they recommend the one they use when they
| developed it.
| sqeaky wrote:
| They chose to publicize their hobby project and put it in
| front of a bunch of people it doesn't work for, they can
| expect criticism from people doesn't work for.
| __MatrixMan__ wrote:
| I think it's perfectly reasonable to admire the work that
| has been done here while also critiquing the mess that is
| our web.
|
| Besides, it's not like this is a website anyway.
| sqeaky wrote:
| Yeah, exactly. They're not being assholes they're making
| minor suggestions. They requesting minor wording changes
| and how the thing says it doesn't work outside a chrome.
| If people aren't allowed to say that then people just
| aren't really allowed to say anything.
|
| I would rather everything people make that runs in a
| browser work in every browser but I get that there have
| to be limits and that I'm not entitled to someone else's
| labor.
| 38 wrote:
| this 100%
| InsideOutSanta wrote:
| Either Firefox is not supported, or I don't understand what I'm
| supposed to do. Either way, I was confused.
| sigseg1v wrote:
| I read this as "I had time to test it in Chrome so I can
| confirm it works in Chrome, but I don't have time or money to
| test on other browsers so I haven't specifically recommended
| those." Sounds totally reasonable.
| spencerchubb wrote:
| > the author should just say that
|
| the author did say that, just in different wording
|
| chrome and firefox are not the only browsers
| notfed wrote:
| I like this concept. It sort of reminds me of the vibe from the
| game Portal.
| dalmo3 wrote:
| Seemingly inspired by There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
| xandrius wrote:
| Strongly inspired. That non-game is actually done exceptionally
| pretty well for something which could work even as a 5min
| gimmick.
| Shared404 wrote:
| Not only that, something which did work as a five minute
| gimmick! I remember playing the original "There is no game"
| on Kongregate back in high school.
| ironhaven wrote:
| Note for Firefox users, the "cat video" section is not working,
| and you will not be able to experience the rest of the app. You
| are supposed to break the player in a Google Gravity[1] like
| fashion, but it's broken. They should not "highly" recommend
| using chrome, but just say it does not work on other browsers.
|
| [1] https://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-
| gravity...
| sigseg1v wrote:
| Should they also specify if it works in QQ Browser? What about
| Safari? Baidu Browser?
|
| I argue that specifying where it doesn't work is pretty stupid.
| Just specify what you tested it on. It works on those and may
| or may not work on others. If you'd like it to work on other
| browsers you can see if you can contact the author to help them
| with financial support to get the other ones working.
| hinkley wrote:
| It's glitchy af on mobile safari too. Kept freezing up.
| franciscop wrote:
| (In Firefox) I opened the terminal, then deleted an overlay and
| I COULD "break" the video like you are describing, which lead
| me to believe it was a "mess with the DOM" kind of pseudo-game,
| which seems like it was def not the case when I deleted more
| things and everything broke.
|
| Edit: added a PR (took just 12 mins to fix)
| https://github.com/AndreiBalan-dev/there-is-no-website/pull/...
| andreibalandev wrote:
| Hey there! I have pushed a fix to make it compatible with
| Firefox. Thank you very much for the feedback!
|
| If there are any other issues, I am here on a lookout :D
| worble wrote:
| Is that an AI'd David Attenborough? Did they get permission to
| use his voice?
| johnfn wrote:
| Haha, I was wondering how the author did subtitles for the text
| to speech. Turns out they painstakingly hard-coded every one:
| https://github.com/AndreiBalan-dev/there-is-no-website/blob/...
|
| I'm not even disappointed, I'm impressed! That must have been a
| lot of work.
| _nalply wrote:
| Thanks for the subtitles. I am Deaf.
| lovegrenoble wrote:
| Cookie is difficult (
| richardwhiuk wrote:
| Was easier to use enter + space, rather than a trackpad.
| _nalply wrote:
| I opened console and did something like:
| setInterval(() => document.querySelector('button').click(),
| 100)
| victorio wrote:
| In mobile it's impossible
| Dwedit wrote:
| With a touchpad, I can get 12 clicks per second without
| straining myself by alternating between two fingers.
| verse wrote:
| love this. it feels like the Stanley Parable! great job!
| sweca wrote:
| There is no game was one of my favourite online games as a kid.
| It's cool to see it in another form
| andreibalandev wrote:
| Hey guys! Creator of the non-website here. Thank you all very
| much for the feedback.
|
| This thing that is clearly NOT a website was initially done for a
| hackathon and I never expected it to get more than 5-6 users.
|
| It's so amazing and a bit stressful, because I want to offer a
| great experience at the same time!! Today I tried to make it
| compatible on phone too mobile users. Hadn't too much time to
| test it out but I'm on the lookout for bugs.
|
| I also found this post randomly, I was trying to find out why did
| Vercel sent me an email at 4 AM that I am using 100% of the free
| plan data LOL. I had to upgrade to pro.
|
| Thanks to everyone for trying out this scuffed thing (which is
| NOT a website!!) haha. I had a deadline and only 26h left to
| create it, never knew it will get this many users!
|
| Much love, Andrei.
| hinkley wrote:
| Creator of this what?
| andreibalandev wrote:
| Oh sorry! I made a typo there.. Let me change that real
| quick..
| amingilani wrote:
| If you put your files on the free CloudFlare R2 storage tier
| and aggressively cache your site's HTML, you can get away with
| the free tier on Vercel :)
| Laremere wrote:
| If you enjoy this kind of interaction with a narrator, I
| recommend the game "The Stanley Parable".
| butz wrote:
| Was going to look into non-website code to see what shenanigans
| are they doing that are not compatible with "other browsers". As
| expected, someone already beat me to it and created a PR:
| https://github.com/AndreiBalan-dev/there-is-no-website/pull/...
| mid-kid wrote:
| The audio took a while to load due to network hiccups, and
| suddently it started playing all sound bits at the same time
| tamimio wrote:
| Cool, it works on Firefox but not on Safari for iPhone. The
| volume change of the Rick Roll song at the end is predefined. I
| thought for a second it was automatic once the narrator spoke,
| which would be cool!
| andreibalandev wrote:
| Amazing suggestion! Updated now :D Thank you!
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| See also:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Game:_Wrong_Dimens...
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