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Websites That Don't Need to Be Made Anymore

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-not-want dept.

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but there is a finite number of social networking or selling websites that the world needs. Here is a collection of the eight kinds of websites that absolutely don't need to be made anymore. I'd add dating sites and anybody who uses pop-up ads myself, but I think that would eliminate half the Web.

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  1. I know one more by roman_mir · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does anyone else have this problem with /., when you push the 'reply' it shows the page with the text area that is one quarter of the width of the page? I am too lazy to check the CSS, but is this happening for everyone here right now, or is it settings dependent and on case by case basis? /. - we don't really need more /. One is enough for everyone.

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    1. Re:I know one more by maxume · · Score: 2, Informative

      It is a feature of idle.

      Idle seems to be a marketing initiative that the editors resent, but they seem to be required to post to it.

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    2. Re:I know one more by corbettw · · Score: 5, Informative

      I think it's just a problem with the CSS on Idle. If you remove "idle." from the URL it uses the default CSS, and everything looks normal again. Almost annoying enough to see if there's a Greasemonkey script to replace the Idle CSS with normal CSS on the fly.

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  2. 2 articles that don't need to be posted anymore by Rotten · · Score: 3, Informative

    1) "top 8 things" style articles
    2) articles about apple loosing stuff

  3. My favorites... by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Website that make you log in to even view things.. WTF is that? A members only club that anyone can be a part of? You know how many of those sites have bugmenot logins? your site is a failure, stop being a power freak, You wont get my real email address anyways...

    A Website with those damned popups when you roll over a word... OMFG! I want to physically harm the guy that runs that site that has those.

    Sound of ANY KIND.. a pop up of your ugly face talking to me in flash? I dont think so. It's not neat, its not cool. It's dumb and makes me want to never go to your site again.

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  4. Re:#4 Registering for an account by AndrewNeo · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is another alternative. It's called OpenID, and it works great. Sites just need to implement it.

  5. Cloudy since the mainframe days by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    Really? In the 1980s I could call up any number of virtual servers on the fly for a few dollars per month?

    Cloud computing in the sense of buying time on a time-sharing computer system has been around since the mainframe days. Cloud computing in the sense of relying on an application service provider has also been around since the mainframe days.

  6. Re:Regarding #4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well, I don't really see where your aggressive-sounding post is coming from,...

    Methinks Lumpy is Grumpy.