FYI: The creators of Brave Browser now have a search engine.
(search.brave.com)
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He's talking about Modern Web Design and he's completely correct.
To create a "hip" website nowadays people are convinced that the majroity of the screen should be completely empty.
A perfect example is old reddit versus new reddit. Just look at it and look at how many wasted pixels there are in new reddit. How much "empty space" is between everything. (I know, sorry for recommending to load up reddit at all, but their design is explicitly relevant to this)
Yes you are correct, it is definitely the rise of fucking mobile that influenced this shitfuck design.
He didn't actually talk about "modern web design" he specifically called out "icons everywhere" when there are none.
Search pages have always been a blank page with a search bar. Until Google started loading it with propaganda "art" and propaganda "news," which people hated. Now this search page is back to form with just a search page and just results, and it's "copying google?"
That's a ridiculous complaint.
If you don't see way too many icons on the brave side and literally the same overall design between the two websites in this screenshot, I don't know how to continue this conversation. They're both 95% empty space and Brave's results are splattered with icons. I'm a fan of Brave, but the idea that their design doesn't deserve the same criticism that all bullshit corporate art styles deserve is nonsense.
https://imgur.com/a/QHoSd4c
The favicons in the search results? That's what you two are on about? Really?
The empty whitespace is a part of web 2.0, which I already called out.
I'm just dumbfounded that people are purity spiraling over alt tech using web 2.0 design. Yeah it sucks, it's always sucked, if you don't use it your website automatically "looks like crap" to every normy. Web 2.0 is on the way out soon and everyone will switch to 333.0, and we'll all hate that too. It's a terrible reason to prefer using a propaganda engine.
So you agree but you wanna argue along the way? Whatever mate.