On: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

[endymi0n]

Spot on. This is just the anti-trend to minimalism, which again was the anti-trend to what I grew up with:

https://www.cameronsworld.net/

(which was the anti-trend to the original, booooooring beginnings of hypertext)

'All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.' — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[dntrkv → endymi0n]

I think y’all are conflating two completely different things.

There are “fun” sites where proper UX, information hierarchy, and general good design patterns take a backseat to some wild design (band websites for example).

Then there are sites that focus on productivity which should have all the elements of good design. Craigslist is from the 90s, yet it doesn’t have sparkles and random shit scattered across the page.

Everyone is reminiscing about the wild designs of the past. How many of those sites you visited were actual productivity focused sites vs now? You can’t compare Geocities to Jira…