Looks like we have to throw out that "worst design ever" meme
Edit: lol nevermind, I clicked English and it just sends me back to the old page
yeah what's this "affront to god" shite, the only thing it needs is a better search feature for finding certain topics/articles.
an affront to god
:haram:
How dare you, Marxists.org's geocities-style layout is it's charm.
I don't know what SEDAR is, but that's a neat looking website that loads instantaneously because it isn't overloaded with bullshit.
Hitting F12 on that site and looking at the Sources tab is like taking a deep breath of fresh air in a spring meadow. No javascript, no cookies, no 100+ calls to third-party ad platforms that take 2 seconds to finish loading, just a couple of .gifs, a CSS file, and some HTML.
1990's internet trots:
"What do you think the Internet will look like in 30 years?"
"I think it will be more round."
Clean HTML and a usable interface. This is the twelfth type of liberalism.
You can do that without it being ugly. In fact, it's probably slower than it needs to be because the pages are filled with jpegs for the text and background and portraits, etc. I guess it's good in that it doesn't download any big fonts or anything like that. The main page is just an <area> with the text embedded in the image. Everything's also on one huge page. The images aren't even lazy-load :( so the main page with all the authors is 1 MB.
PPB and you have to click on the turd to get through to the posts.
First option: Small balls with no turd
Second option: Small balls with turd
Third option: Large balls with no turd
Correct option: Large balls with turd
And there's a little animated gif of the turd falling off when you do.
looks like you jerks finally hurt their feelings
edit: uh, it seems like while the homepage has changed to a language selector (cool and good) the old design is the immediate next webpage - it all its...glory.
uh, it seems like while the homepage has changed to a language selector (cool and good) the old design is the immediate next webpage - it all its…glory.
Even better, clicking the language immediately next clockwise (Mandarin?) just leads to a dead page lol
"Chinese" is stupid when talking about a language, but correct when talking about the writing
Isn't that kind of like saying the 12 o'clock position on this circle is written in Roman?
Well people do say "Latin" when talking about the lettering system, so yeah it pretty much is.
Mandarin, Cantonese and other related languages and dialects are very different but since Hanzi is logographic, they are written with the same characters and just read differently according to language.
Even Japanese, which is totally unrelated, uses those symbols as one part of its writing system- generally with the same or similar meaning, sometimes with borrowed pronunciation, but often in a different way.
but since Hanzi is logographic, they are written with the same characters and just read differently according to language.
And I expect the one I was referring to is intended to be read in Mandarin and take you to the part of the site where you will find things written in Mandarin, the same way the one labeled "Deutsch" is probably meant to be read in German and not Finnish. If it actually takes you to a site where you can read works intended primarily for a Cantonese-speaking audience then I'd be wrong, but I would guess that is not the case
Oh, well Mandarin and Cantonese can both be read from the same text, so the writing is both languages. They're not just using the same set of characters. There are only really minor quirks in the writing even though the languages are mutually unintelligible.
Although nowadays Mandarin is more likely to use simplified characters, but they're 1:1 so it's still completely usable for Cantonese.
this is fucking vile. if it doesn't look like it's from 1994 I do not care to ever read theory again
Is there anywhere you can bulk download the stuff on marxists.org.
Yeah it's got thousands of mirrors, only like 100 gigs I think?
That's if you mirror all the PDFs and images. Html and epub are still under 100
The thing we're posting on is also like hosted in France or something, has a live comments feed, upvote counts, and edits, and uses a database to load comments and posts with many updates per day.
