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> If I run a site that is unreadable on NoScript and RequestPolicy turned up to maximum paranoia, but am generating millions of dollars o...

> If I run a site that is unreadable on NoScript and RequestPolicy turned up to maximum paranoia, but am generating millions of dollars of revenue, is my webpage "broken?" I'd say yes. Usable != profitable. Hey, HN is broken, because it will "time-out" pages and you will sometimes get an error when clicking "next" - but that doesn't make it useless. (and for the arc apologists that usually respond to this - I clicked a valid link on this website, I don't care what technology is HN based on) Also, your website would be broken if it was unusable: under anything other than IE, on machines other than PCs, on devices not made in Asia, by people older than 60, etc. None of those prevent it from generating millions of dollars. Then again "broken" doesn't mean you should care. If your goal was just to make millions of dollars, that's fine. Just don't be surprised people call it broken.

Posted by viraptor on Feb 9, 2015, 7:39 AM

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> If I run a site that is unreadable on NoScript and RequestPolicy turned up to maximum paranoia, but am generating millions of dollars o...

viraptorFeb 9, 2015, 7:39 AM

> If I run a site that is unreadable on NoScript and RequestPolicy turned up to maximum paranoia, but am generating millions of dollars of revenue, is my webpage "broken?" I'd say yes. Usable != profitable. Hey, HN is broken, because it will "time-out" pages and you will sometimes get an error when clicking "next" - but that doesn't make it useless. (and for the arc apologists that usually respond to this - I clicked a valid link on this website, I don't care what technology is HN based on) Also, your website would be broken if it was unusable: under anything other than IE, on machines other than PCs, on devices not made in Asia, by people older than 60, etc. None of those prevent it from generating millions of dollars. Then again "broken" doesn't mean you should care. If your goal was just to make millions of dollars, that's fine. Just don't be surprised people call it broken.

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