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“Like our machines, our website looks awful on a phone.”

Someone could’ve spent literally 5 minutes making this look reasonable on the world’s most popular web browsing device form facto, whilst still retaining the site’s retro virtue signalling aesthetic, AND it wouldn’t have taken away from their ‘core mission’ or whatever.

If you don’t care, don’t have a website at all.




On my phone the website looks essentially identical to how it looks on my desktop browser.

Does it look different on yours. It's just a plaintext website with white text on a black background and it's fast to load and easy to read for me. What's wrong with it?


The text is too small to read on a phone without scrolling sideways.


Sometimes the children really are wrong.


Unstated benefit of the website is it repels the right people.


I only looked at the linked article and the homepage so maybe diagrams and such look worse, but those pages look fabulous on phone to me. I wish more sites looked like this one.


Who left you in charge?


man wtf does virtue signaling even mean anymore


Hint: it never meant anything.


using a phone to browse the web is really sad




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