[HN Gopher] Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web
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Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web
Author : surprisetalk
Score : 246 points
Date : 2025-09-29 15:42 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| sp4cec0wb0y wrote:
| Does anyone have an aggregate of websites like these? I love this
| type of content (I am a shit designer and want to get better).
| trallnag wrote:
| You mean an aggregate of aggregation websites?
| sp4cec0wb0y wrote:
| Yes. :)
| trallnag wrote:
| Makes me think of all the higher-order awesome lists on
| GitHub
| QuantumNomad_ wrote:
| Don't forget Wikipedia! :D
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
| ethmarks wrote:
| Someone should make a list of these types of lists!
| ayaros wrote:
| "'LoLoL' redirects here."
|
| Yes... yes it does. LOL
| lioeters wrote:
| Awesome list of awesome lists.
| https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
| gregsadetsky wrote:
| a few more sites (rather than aggregators):
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| - https://cargo.site/templates/samples-specimens and
| https://cargo.site/templates in general (scroll down and then
| scroll horizontally to see a lot more)
|
| - https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
|
| - a few inspiring friends and friends of friends:
| https://julipode.net/ , https://katarinamazur.com/ ,
| https://kotc.life/ , https://suneinyneeenan.github.io/Enhydrax/
| Bengalilol wrote:
| Try this https://www.are.na/trudy-painter/cool-websites-
| yj6tfjbuhp8 From there, you either find single websites, or
| other people's lists of websites they like.
|
| It is random walk down a rabbit hole, but quite entertaining
| (and inspiring).
| trudypainter wrote:
| omg thanks!! <3
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| ironic that I can't get to the bottom of the home page to read
| the about/subscribe/submit, because it keeps loading more sites
| in
| trallnag wrote:
| Good for the site engagement metrics
| stronglikedan wrote:
| especially considering they actually have inputs for suggesting
| a website and signing up for their newsletter (that can't be
| filled out)
| whilenot-dev wrote:
| A pretty unconventional way to prevent more than 1000
| submissions, I guess.
| justusthane wrote:
| Found this on there, which is really neat:
| https://slingshot.trudy.computer/
| jsiegz wrote:
| That's Trudy! https://www.trudy.computer/
| trudypainter wrote:
| thank u for playing!
| justusthane wrote:
| I found https://gizmo.party/ via your site, which I am also
| very much enjoying! Very fun use of vibe-coding, which I've
| been overall pretty resistant to.
|
| Although I do wish it wasn't such a black box -- I wish the
| code for the gizmos could be examined, exported, or embedded
| elsewhere.
| beingforthebene wrote:
| It took me a while to figure out what this is even supposed to
| be. Visiting from a computer with no webcam displays a
| confusing site.
| noyesno wrote:
| How I miss Kaliber 10000 (aka k10k), Design Is Kinky, Pixel
| Surgeon etc.
|
| https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/kaliber10000-2003
| notsahil wrote:
| Wow every preview is screen recored on iPhone
| AuthAuth wrote:
| Respect to the people making these and some are really cool but
| damn these sites make me appreciate conventional web design.
| lampiaio wrote:
| Oh it's unconventional alright. When I see a link formatted as
| https://www.example.com/ and click it, the last thing I expect is
| for it to vanish and become "Copy Link | Visit website". Boggles
| my mind.
| jama211 wrote:
| All this amazing art and stuff on this site and all you could
| do was find something nitpicky to complain about? Sure says a
| lot...
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| It says that UX matters even when doing art.
| memonkey wrote:
| UX matters when doing art = pen, paper, paint.
|
| But UX does not matter when experiencing art. OP is
| entitled to feel nit picky and pissy and a critic because
| of the normal way they experience the web. It does not mean
| his critique matters.
| AfterHIA wrote:
| This is not unconventional-- this is the conventional web I want.
| I want the internet to be a groovy place again.
|
| Rave on ravers.
| jadbox wrote:
| It is neat, but personally I'm not wild about it. Most of these
| examples are terrible for accessibility needs, and otherwise a
| frustration if you visited to find specific information. I do
| appreciate the novelty though.
| aho15 wrote:
| Not sure if I'm with you on this one. I see what you mean but I
| also have a hard time to understand what's going on on these
| sites. So in my eyes these are quite exactly what the author
| called it. Unconventional. However I like the idea of getting
| these concepts shown and shared just to see what could might
| work or what causes a lot of attention.
| dylan604 wrote:
| reminds me of early Flash days where everyone was so excited
| about not having to use tables/frames/etc and started making
| "organic" sites instead of structured sites. so usability was
| neat and interesting, others were outright confusing. weird
| styles have their place, but people like to follow trends and
| use weird styles when it is not appropriate. these tend to
| feel like square pegs in a round hole.
| Animats wrote:
| It does feel a lot like the Flash era.
|
| Girbaud, which was once a cool clothing brand, had an all-
| Flash site for years. It looked like a 3D stack of cubes,
| and if you clicked on the cubes, interesting things
| happened. Short videos and pictures would pop up, audio
| clips would play, and then they'd fold back into their
| cubes. Very cute.
|
| But it was really hard to order stuff. Just finding out
| where the items for sale were was tough.
|
| Their site today is totally vanilla. They have product
| pages and "Add to Cart" buttons, like everybody else.[1]
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| [1] https://www.girbaud.com/en
| benjaminclauss wrote:
| How do I submit https://taylor.town/?
| Theodores wrote:
| I get the idea but these feel like those demoscene things people
| make for really old 8-bit computers.
|
| What I am looking for is inspiration for presenting some actual
| content, for example, stories with a beginning, middle and end,
| with meaningful call to action forms and text that is designed to
| be read rather than 'shapes on a page'.
|
| I am not dismissing what goes on here, or even the demoscene, it
| is great to see. However, I think that people are struggling to
| read these days, so lots of text, no matter how well presented,
| is just not what people read. How do you get people totally
| absorbed without it being video or a game?
|
| I understand the UX of the UK government websites where
| information is presented very clearly and is engaging (if you
| need to do something to do with health, taxes and whatnot). But
| this super-clear approach doesn't convey that an immense amount
| of effort has been spent on presentation.
|
| I am also bored of normal Wordpress style websites with the
| tedious carousels and whatnot, Squarespace fits this 'yawn' style
| too.
|
| Although I did not find a website to be deeply engaged in with
| loadmo.re, I am inspired and impressed. There is much to borrow
| from here and many 'experiments' that are trying to do things
| new. Props to the site maintainer for doing the research to find
| these 'diamonds (in the rough)'.
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