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  • It's still better than the sh*t developers produced three years ago.

    Some people just like to feel superior by shaming others' work. You can easily tweak the visual output if you want to, but it's good enough for most use cases and better than what developers used to produce.

    So, it's progress.

    by aogaili
  • Why so angry?
    by CarlitosHighway
  • Agreed. I enjoy looking at and using a lot of these components.
    by chrisra
  • Some of these are actually nice and appropriate to use in certain contexts. Also this issue is hilarious: https://github.com/vorpus/performativeUI/issues/2
    by kfarr
  • That ascii lava lamp effect is low key really cool
    by jrflo
  • Not sure what's low key about it but I agree that it's cool
    by replwoacause
  • Lags the hell out of my browser (Safari) window though.
    by carlos-menezes
  • Yeah probably my favorite of the bunch too. I bet there’s a fun project to do to make a customizer for that.
    by tyleo
  • It's funny how many people here like it. Well it doesn't surprise me since the websites being upvoted here from startups look like this too.

    Personally I barf when I come across a website that looks like this and close it immediately. It's about as appealing as stock images. I also immediately think that this is for a SAAS that will be bog-slow, expensive and only integrates with github.

    by myaccountonhn
  • Well, at least the copy on the site reads like satire. I didn't notice it at first, looking at components; but then I started reading the text.

    P.S.: The popover description is brilliant:

    > The obtrusive newsletter modal every AI startup deploys. Takes over the entire viewport with a blurred backdrop. By design, neither the Escape key nor backdrop clicks close it; the visitor either submits the form inside or clicks the tiny dismissal link at the bottom. Pair with `timer` to auto-open after the visitor has skimmed a few paragraphs.

    by azangru
  • Adding github link for those who want to use it (I do): https://github.com/vorpus/performativeUI
    by grassfedgeek
  • wait my readme isnt performative enough yet, let me add a chart showing the star history
    by lizhang
  • I get the whole trope thing and maybe I'm just an old man but I still am kinda impressed when Claude sh*ts out this type of UI 100 times faster than I ever could. It might also be that I never could have made UI even of this quality before AI. (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)
    by wuliwong
  • “TokenStream – Server-sent events (SSE) were added to the HTML5 spec in 2008 but never used until 2025.”

    I remember chunked transfer encoding shipped in 1997. It's been possible since then to readily and easily stream bytes of text or chunks of html the way everyone sees LLMs do today.

    I used this to write a web based telnet client in 1997, and later a text moo / chat for the web. In both cases used a frameset so your line to send was at bottom of screen, the incoming lines were server-sent as things happened server side, and scrolled the client as new lines came in.

    There were other things you could abuse before that, but less reliable.

    But yeah, talk about things nobody used....

    by Terretta
  • COMET was so far ahead of its time. Sierra Online used it for their webchat in 1995 and it was absolutely the best webchat out there for years
    by ChiperSoft
  • These all look very professional for (basically) a parody library
    by tfitz237
  • ...which might just show how predictable and similar all janky startup pages are.
    by Boxxed
  • IMO that means "professional" will look very different in a few years.
    by marcosdumay
  • What are the odds some companies end up using it for a real product?
    by csomar
  • Just because they're showing contempt for the process doesn't mean the process isn't refined

    Joking about something tends to require an interconnected understanding of it

    by yieldcrv
  • Definitely bookmarking for future ideas and inspiration, don't care if I'm shamed for it.
    by sv123
  • The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you've a billion dollars in series A.
    by padolsey
  • lowercasing everything -- just means

    you're literate smart... poetic; because

    you read e.e.cummings

    and william carlos

    williams

    ...

    fin.

    by cmrdporcupine
  • Ah yes, the jeevacation special
    by sph
  • Netscape knows best.
    by Waterluvian
  • Array language proponents also like to do this. In their case I‘ll allow it, it matches the substance.
    by MrBuddyCasino
  • Virtue-signalling or just the daddy?

    https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

    by davedx
  • "Countersignaling" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersignaling) might be the better word: "Countersignaling is the behavior in which agents with the highest level of a given property invest less into proving it than individuals with a medium level of the same property."
    by xnx
  • I've mostly stopped caring about using using proper capitalization, commas, grammar and spelling in my writing of comments, primarily as a signal that i'm not an llm.
    by psadauskas
  • https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
    by thomascgalvin