Look, I've got something to say, and it might piss off a few designers and developers out there. But honestly? I'm tired of your fancy frameworks and your slick animations and your "delightful user experiences."
You know what's actually delightful? Being able to read something without a popup asking me to subscribe to a newsletter. Or without having to wait for some JavaScript to load just so I can see what you wrote.
I've spent seven years watching us overcomplicate everything. We've got NextJS, React, Vue, Angular, Svelte – frameworks to build frameworks that help you build more frameworks. And for what? So someone can read a blog post?
Here's a wild idea: just give me the text.
Remember Wikipedia? Plain text, blue links, black and white. And guess what? It's probably taught us more than any "interactive learning experience" ever has. People spent hours reading it without needing a hamburger menu that transforms into a dancing unicorn.
When was the last time you thought, "Wow, this article really moved me because of its parallax scrolling effects"? Never. Because that's not how humans work. We connect with words, ideas, stories. Not with your fancy fade-in animations.
Look at Hacker News, Reddit's old design, or any of the sites that actually focus on content. They're basically just text. And they work. They work really well.
I'm not saying we should go back to HTML 1.0. But maybe – just maybe – we need to remember that people come to read, to learn, to understand. Not to be impressed by your mastery of CSS transitions.
So here's my suggestion: next time you're about to reach for that heavy framework just to present some text, stop. Ask yourself: "Do I really need all this?"
Chances are, you don't. Your readers certainly don't.
Just give them the damn text already.
And that's exactly why I'm launching this website. No frameworks. No fancy animations. No bullshit. Just pure, unadulterated text that might actually add some value to human civilization. Because at the end of the day, that's what matters – connecting minds through words, sharing ideas that might make our world a tiny bit better.
To you, whoever's reading this right now: thank you for being here. For choosing to engage with ideas rather than interfaces. For proving that in this overly complicated digital world, sometimes all we need is text to make a difference.
This is my small contribution to humanity. One simple, readable page at a time.