I'll comradely kiss the trots that maintain marxists.org on the lips for real

  • UncleJoe [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    The cringe on the site is mostly limited to biographies of Stalin/Trotsky and some other dudes, the rest is just Marxists works. Now if only these Trots could learn web design...

    P.S. Check out https://archive.marxists.xyz if you wanna see what a modern take on marxists.org would look like, it's currently being worked on by some comrades from leftypol and although there's barely anything on it for now it's still pretty cool

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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      3 years ago

      Awesome! The good think about marxists.org is that all the texts are reflowable because they're raw html. You can convert all of them into epub in 10 minutes. I just rip the whole site (only like 60GB) and keep it in a folder. Wouldn't be hard to reflow the pages into a fancier container either. Firefoxes reader mode does a fantastic job and that a generalized solution.

    • FidelCastro [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      some comrades from leftypol

      Like actual comrades or "let 100 slurs blossom" comrades?

      • UncleJoe [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Well in my defense it's modern compared to the fuckin clusterfuck HTML pages of marxists.org lmao

        • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Because building a site around the two is far from "modern". Maybe 10 years ago it was, but not now.

          At this point there's not much good reason to use jQuery (and especially jQuery UI, which the site also seems to be using) over either vanilla ES6+ or an actual framework.

          And Bootstrap can be alright, if you are using one of the latest versions, but this site is using Bootstrap 3 (for reference the latest is 5 and the transition from 3 to 4 was pretty big).

          Tbf this site seems to have inherited all that from the wiki engine they chose to use, but it still chose to use that engine.

          (Also at my job I work on an old-ass project that uses jQuery and Bootstrap 3 and I hate it.)

          • pppp1000 [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            jQuery is old. No doubt. But it still serves a purpose if you have to maintain those old legacy websites. If it's using bootstrap 3 then it's old, I didn't look at the website.