Anything more than a plain html website is bourgeois decadence.
sorry sweaty, CSS is reactionary
I mean, as a professional fullstack developer (so also frontend) there kinda is something to it.
Is this some coding meme that I’m too much of a layman to understand?
HTML is like the AK47 of web design. It does the job and respects the user.
Marxists can stop enshittification. Simple HTML websites embody the proletarian spirit.
under evil communist rule developers are banned from embedding javascript
Tbh, I love minimal websites. This could be my nostalgia speaking, though. Nevertheless, small websites means less bandwidth requirements for our comrades with slow internet.
Plus, text-focused websites tend to be higher quality and actually have meaningful content.
I’m all for minimalism, but I don’t think that has to be at odds with the site looking nice and clean. Lemmy is a good example of a site that looks pretty minimal, but also looks nice visually.
Maybe something like this? https://github.com/muxelplexer/marxists-org-dark-stylized
Better and consistent styling would definitely help, but it would be nice to have good search, better navigation, etc. It’d be great to take all the content from marxists.org and shove it into a modern content management system.
I have wanted to make “mirrors” of Marxist websites and port them to different formats and protocols. I will keep this in mind. Sounds like a fun project.
I’m coming out of left field but if you have these tech skills you can probably help us at prolewiki instead.
The problem with MIA is they’re trots, and not only that but they actually edit texts they don’t like. They’ve admitted to it too and it was after finding this out that I started distancing myself from them. How can you trust anything you read on the MIA if you don’t have any other version to check it against?
They do have thousands of texts which you can’t readily find elsewhere, and I like reading in HTML format instead of always downloading a PDF that’s just a scan of a book (on PW we’re actually looking for a solution to turn our pages into PDFs for local storage + we have built-in dark mode). It helps that they’ve been doing this since the 90s.
But if it’s just a matter of having more texts then we can shine here as well with rarer books until we can eventually (maybe) catch up to their sheer volume of works. And to achieve that, we need people to upload texts, that would be dope. But if you have skills in webdev or design I assure you there’s definitely stuff to be done.
