God, this website is retro as shit. I feel like I’ve been Quantum Leap -ed back to 2005, the era of websites that people unironically described as “lickable.”
I knew that asking @wavebeem “what would you make more lickable about this website” would, no matter where it went, generate tremendous content.
has anyone written a user stylesheet for cohost yet
remember user stylesheets
I swear I used a custom style sheet for something, but I’ll be damned if I can remember what it was. It was probably some workaround for a broken website during the era I used Opera.
i have seen some user styles for cohost but idk how you even do that. the site uses tailwind, which makes it damn near impossible to sensibly override styles. (i dont hate atomic css like some folks, but the markup here is not conducive to user styles in any way lol)
What would you change about this website to increase its lickability?
well, the first glaring omission is gradients. haven't seen one yet, and that's a pretty important part of lickability. throw a nice thick split gradients with a very white sheen on some prominent UI.
add some textures, too. there's so much beige... why not a nice khaki texture?? macOS was sooooo fond of linen texture for a long time, i want the background of cohost to look like pants you could golf in.
hashtags should definitely show up in bloopy little pills, too. everyone was so excited about tagging back then they wanted to frame everything.
What we need more of is Brushed Metal. And cotton-candy-colored logos with gratuitous reflections. I could probably do the latter with sufficient CSS folderol.
OH YEAH the half reflection on a pure black background that iTunes did....... GOD. so easy now by duplicating the image and using CSS...
