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Daniel Nest's avatar

"What is the point of a website if no human being visits it anymore?"

Bot-456BX Model TK II here, and to answer your question: "LOL! All your webz are belong to us."

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Jurgen Gravestein's avatar

Beep beep boop boop!

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Daniel Nest's avatar

How dare you?! My grandpa....uh....predecessor drone was TWICE the man you are.

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Jim Amos's avatar

I find it hilarious that Atlassian, infamous for building some of the worst and most irritating UIs of all time, think they can responsibly steward the development of a browser known for its calm UI.

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Stephen Moore's avatar

I’ve been thinking along these lines too in a draft that I should one day finish — the single interface internet. What I can’t decide is if that’s good/bad/doesn’t matter

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Jurgen Gravestein's avatar

I'm skeptical, too. And there may be such as thing as too much abstraction. It could also very much be that people like the Internet as it is, and they actually don't want it to change, despite all these companies trying hard to sell them on their vision for the future.

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Rob Nelson's avatar

I like how hopeful you are. I admit my first reaction to the news was disappointment, although Atlassian's assumption of ownership seems better than it getting bought by one of the giant AI firms.

I recommend Brad DeLong's blogging on his use of Dia, which convinced me to take the plunge and get a beta account. So far, so interesting.

https://open.substack.com/pub/braddelong/p/an-interim-report-on-my-experience?r=15jjiq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Stephanie Butzen's avatar

Maybe, no more Webdesign 😅

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