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Chinese web design: cluttered, but it works. Here's why (inv.nadeko.net)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 weeks ago

This makes perfect sense. The contradiction of course is that minimalist/decluttering/hidden design is not bad UX either, it's just sometimes or often misused.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Explaining to me what a modem is when I lived through acoustic couplers and war dialing BBSes.

[–] paequ2 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Aw, man. I clicked the link and got "The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported."

[–] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Try switching backends (links at the top), then try using a VPN and see if that makes a difference, then try grabbing the YouTube URL from the "Watch on YouTube" link and either use a third-party client, download it with yt-dlp, or watch on YouTube with uBlock Origin.

I was able to play this video by switching backends. Sometimes I have to switch multiple times on the same backends before it eventually works.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is why I just post the original YouTube links. If someone doesn’t want to use YouTube, that’s on them to either not click the link or to finagle the proxying themselves.

[–] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

On certain communities and on Hexbear, which I frequently repost to and from, it's generally suggested and sometimes expected to post links using privacy/archival frontends, especially if the source is reactionary. I try to follow those rules. And while the bot is useful, I find it a bit annoying to see I received a comment and it ends up being the bot, boo. Plus lemmy now seems to show video content from YouTube if it uses an invidious link.

I know sometimes the video links do not work, but I prefer giving invidious links anyway as it's easy to forget to finagle the link before just immediately clicking on it and accidentally opening a site like YouTube. I like to give users a buffer before deciding how to approach the link if it doesn't work. Invidious has a link available to watch directly on YouTube, so I figured people can still ultimately watch the video if nothing else works.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

Plus lemmy now seems to show video content from YouTube if it uses an invidious link.

Huh, I wasn’t aware of that.