Tell HN: STOP making Vibe Slop websites that LAG on my MBP and workstation
I get it, you want to show off how "cool" you are with your hijacked scrolling and 50 million animations. Does marketing in 2026 mean your potential customer's computer starts lagging with horrendous layouts and designs?
Nobody gives a shit. I'm not impressed. If it lags, I'm closing the tab. Maybe VCs think it is cool, but people like them think everything is cool.
"Oh but we're in the AGENTIC AGE, humans aren't reading our site" MF the AI agent can't even understand the website now with all your nonsense, and we need fkin VISUAL MODELS that after loading the site, wait 10 seconds, and then MAYBE it gets it.
For example, I saw all the buzz about Linear and I hadn't used it in a few years. Their website lags like a MF on my M1 max which sure, that's not the latest M4/5. I tried it on my desktop workstation and it just as bad. I don't have any of those reduce motion or no GPU accel, etc. It is just slow and laggy!
What are you guys doing? All these websites are horrendous. Stop it.
Why can't these people just tell us what the fuck they do as a company?
(not only speaking of Linear, which most of us here probably know, but various other startups which are boosted on X)
/rant
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As I said before:
What happened to the profession of software engineering? The craft and quality has been thrown out of the window in pursuit of slop.
We are disrespecting our own profession by turning the software we build into fast food junk where nobody wants anything we make and nobody cares about the quality and craft of creating software.
We are just building the same things repeatedly over and over again with nothing inventive or new, wasting engineering and the users time in the process.
AI has just shown how unimaginative some engineers are in choosing what problems in software to build and solve.
We need to do way better.
...while you're at it, stop making sites that are unusable until all the analytic slop has loaded.