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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.