<story><title>Wiby.me: curated search engine for content-first suckless sites</title><url>https://wiby.me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>The site&amp;#x27;s definition of &amp;quot;content-first suckless&amp;quot; is more or less synonymous with &amp;quot;created before 2005&amp;quot;. Which is fine if you are into that aesthetic, but it is a terrible way to judge the value of the content itself. A few lines of CSS to set sensible margins, spacing and text contrast isn&amp;#x27;t the end of the world. Heck even Wikipedia is not &amp;quot;content-first&amp;quot; enough to be included in the results. And it doubly sucks for those who are expecting the tiniest bit of accessibility on the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LastTrain</author><text>There was a time, getting to be quite a long time ago now, when you&amp;#x27;d search for something - software to run on your old SGI, pictures of your 1982 ERA Vans, etc. etc. - and you&amp;#x27;d find it. You&amp;#x27;d find it because someone&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;thing&amp;#x27; was old shoes, and they&amp;#x27;d built a web shrine to their thing. These were people who had knowledge of things unrelated to HTML&amp;#x2F;HTTP&amp;#x2F;CSS and so the sites were rudimentary.&lt;p&gt;You are right, the engine should focus more on content and less on the complexity or quality of the formatting - but I also kind of get it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wiby.me: curated search engine for content-first suckless sites</title><url>https://wiby.me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>The site&amp;#x27;s definition of &amp;quot;content-first suckless&amp;quot; is more or less synonymous with &amp;quot;created before 2005&amp;quot;. Which is fine if you are into that aesthetic, but it is a terrible way to judge the value of the content itself. A few lines of CSS to set sensible margins, spacing and text contrast isn&amp;#x27;t the end of the world. Heck even Wikipedia is not &amp;quot;content-first&amp;quot; enough to be included in the results. And it doubly sucks for those who are expecting the tiniest bit of accessibility on the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>Plain HTML typically has great accessibility. Its when you start adding CSS and scripts it worsens.</text></comment>