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Comic Sans? Really?

Edit: To those downvoting, yes, I saw the footer. This doesn't excuse their childish behavior. I will not be donating to this project if this is the level of seriousness they have for it.



Blatantly done on purpose to:

A) In the smallprint: "This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters." (Mission accomplished)

B) Make it obvious that this is a temporary site (In case the disclaimer wasn't enough)

And if you really want to see the lengths they went to to annoy web people, look at the source


You know, what you really care about is them spending time on writing good software, not writing good websites. They don't have time for this, they don't have money for this, and they don't want to spend human CPU on this.

Oh, and while we're at it, the OpenSSL page [0] isn't much better visually speaking. Would you donate to them to make OpenSSL better ?

[0] https://www.openssl.org/


It's one thing to focus on the code over the website and another to deliberately thumb your nose at people with an ugly font.

It's not all just window dressing; a pleasant, professional website will help to attract more attention and resources.


People not using Windows, wont see this font to begin with, unless they chose to install Comic Sans for some reason.


Read the fine print

> This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags


Of course anyone who has not installed Microsoft Fonts won't see this at all.


I was about to post the exact same question.

And if that's supposed to promote donations... (?!)

Ask yourself if a founder dresses as a clown to get funding.


Ask yourself which hipster start-up is going to do a comprehensive rewrite job on OpenSSL - or, for that matter, which SV VC is going to bung a few million green sheets into something like this (which, if we're honest, we could all do with happening, rather than the next DOA social media start up with a -ly/-able/-r suffix).

If these people are prepared to take this on, then they can use whatever fonts they bloody well like. As a web hipster, I will pay them for punishing my hubris.

Having said that, I can't seem to find a browser in which the blink tags actually, er, blink. Did all the vendors shitcan it on the quiet? I think we should be told.


Firefox dumped it in version 23, and they did report that on the changelog[1]. jwz even wrote a post lamenting it[2].

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0/releasenotes/

[2] http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/08/a-light-has-gone-out-on-the-...


That doesn't surprise me, but IE10 in IE7 compat mode in IE5 Quirks document mode still didn't blink for me. Farewell, old friend.

(Wonder if marquee still works. EDIT: yes, it does. Thank the lord for that.)


But it blinks in FF 24 ESR ...


Dressing and acting like a clown is Eric Raymond's job.


Maybe you should consider donating


To me it comes off as pretty childish - turned me off donating really...


Why would you consciously permit yourself to be biased by the appearance of their webpage in such a way?




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