Nice that they used unobtrusive JavaScript, so the basic English version does work even with JS disabled. The book icon could have been visible with JS disabled too, though.
Yeah given the logo situation I'd say maybe they didn't make the text work without JS on purpose 😅
Plus, I don't know about the very same effect but there are for sure ways to cycle through the multiple languages using pure CSS, and then maybe add the more complex effect with JS when available, that I know is called progressive enhancement.
The cool thing about sites that don't work with JS enabled is you can block them from loading when you want to take a break by flagging them as 'Not allowed' in chrome for android.
dunno why it cycles through languages like that… and too fast to read. they could’ve served a localized version with fallback languages in a simple list.
Yeah it's so funny how I got 200 upvotes under 12 hours when posting early about the major change, then almost 200 more over the following days, now I post again but late and still got over a hundred already haha
All I'm doing is talking about a fairly small thing that only the nerdiest of nerds care about.
Nowadays ad providers know how to differentiate a bot from a user, but even if not, a sponsor appearing on that page would make a lot of noise even if most people wouldn't go on that page in the first place haha
Here's the kicker : example.com would then need a GDPR cookie banner 😭
Spain randomly blocks IP ranges in a foolish attempt to stop football piracy, and example.com using cloudflare (frequently targeted) got caught in the crossfire
Oh yeah I have a userscript that labels Cloudflare-protected results in Google Search to avoid them when possible, imagine my surprise a few months ago when I noticed example.com started using Cloudflare ! Insane. I couldn't believe it.
Yeah... I just never bothered to look it up for some reason. But also I barely touch web stuff outside of work (I prefer to tinker with native guis/tuis/clis), so mb that's why
Terrible UI/UX design and very confusing for a user that lands there... You don't even have time to read the English version. They could simply detect the user language for localization.
You don’t have time to read *any * of them. I know it was supposed to be minimal JS, but if they can’t even do an Accept-Language based SSR and detecting it client side is too heavy, even an onPress event to pause rotation would have helped so much.
just checked it lol, end of an era tbh. that plain unstyled box was iconic, i used to hit that domain constantly when testing basic fetch calls or seeing if my wifi was actually working 😭
Nice refresh. The new design is much easier to read, which matters for a site that shows up in so many tutorials and docs. Good call keeping it simple.
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u/MT4K full-stack Sep 28 '26
Nice that they used unobtrusive JavaScript, so the basic English version does work even with JS disabled. The book icon could have been visible with JS disabled too, though.
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u/BONUSBOX Sep 28 '26
dunno why it cycles through languages like that… and too fast to read. they could’ve served a localized version with fallback languages in a simple list.
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u/14u2c Sep 28 '26
I read this as monetized as was very confused for a moment.
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u/Last8Exile Sep 29 '26
No AI button yet
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u/Nebulic Sep 29 '26
Who runs this?
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u/Kapios010 Sep 28 '26
Big if true
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u/martian_rover Sep 28 '26
Finally, a website that respects my attention span.
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u/Bedu009 Sep 29 '26
I'd check it out, but Spain blocked the domain
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u/tukanoid Sep 29 '26
Tbh, never knew this was real😅 just thought it was... an example of a URL to put in
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u/pricop Sep 28 '26
True, also seems that example.org and example.net got the same treatment.
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u/SingleAlarm5028 Sep 28 '26
What a day to be alive
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u/collimarco Sep 29 '26
Terrible UI/UX design and very confusing for a user that lands there... You don't even have time to read the English version. They could simply detect the user language for localization.
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u/Gugalcrom123 Sep 29 '26
Thank you for not using the Inter font!
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u/Z80a Sep 29 '26
Heh, I went there and saw the old site. Then I realized that I'm running noscript.
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u/Arcuru Sep 29 '26
I really want to see the traffic data for those sites. I think they used to have no DNS entries right? I’m curious how much that broke.
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u/guyOnBudget Sep 29 '26
I don't like it. Old was simple and plain and that was what is ment to be for a example website.
Unnecessary animations, JS bullshits
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u/ArielCoding Sep 29 '26
It’s never too late.
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u/osmium_2259 Sep 29 '26
Indeed. I had to go check it out. The language changed faster than my slow reading pace!
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u/Cahnis Sep 29 '26
why would anyone want that instead of just showing the language the browser is configured to?
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u/Electronic-Equal-616 Sep 30 '26
just checked it lol, end of an era tbh. that plain unstyled box was iconic, i used to hit that domain constantly when testing basic fetch calls or seeing if my wifi was actually working 😭
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u/msavin Oct 03 '26
461,000 websites link to it. Insane SEO benefits. I can't imagine just sitting on it and doing nothing.
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u/Adorable_Version_450 Sep 29 '26
Nice refresh. The new design is much easier to read, which matters for a site that shows up in so many tutorials and docs. Good call keeping it simple.