QotD: Ugly
Posted December 3rd, 2004 @ 07:56pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: What's the ugliest site you still visit regularly?
My Answer: I don't visit a whole lot of ugly sites. The truly ugly ones are usually hidden behind an RSS feed, like this one. 🙂 Perhaps the ugliest site I visit regularly (because its RSS feed has only headlines when I last checked) is xlr8yourmac.com. I have PulpFiction set to show the article in the preview pane instead of the feed content, so I see the site daily.
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Posted 03 Dec 2004 at 8:15pm #
Metalink. You have to have an account to see it, but trust me, it's ugly. With terrible navigation and poor performance. It also happens to be Oracle's on-line knowledge base and support site. Go Figure.
Posted 03 Dec 2004 at 8:45pm #
Aw hell, this one is easy: Slashdot!
Posted 04 Dec 2004 at 12:12pm #
That's easy: Slashdot!
Posted 06 Dec 2004 at 10:40pm #
Slashdot is pretty close. I have my /. account set for minimal graphics and no sidebars. As such it looks a lot like the web in 1994.
I'd have to say the drudgereport.com site. They get an obscene number of hits per day just for presenting the latest "dirt" - some true, some a little less filtered and verified.
It does make you start to think that content comes first, then presentation -- considering the number of eyeballs that see slashdot, metadot, and drudge per day...