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Just started getting this now. Hopefully it's some A/B testing that they'll stop doing, but I'm not holding my breath

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I know this may come off as a surprise: but I imagine that requiring JS in 2024 isn't a big deal to most people.

Now of course Lemmy skews more into that small crowd.

I don't blame any website for requiring JS for full functionality in 2024.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

All of the people replying to this saying you shouldn't need JS are totally unaware how modern web development works.

Yes, you could do many sites without JS, but the entire workforce for web development is trained with JS frameworks. To do otherwise would slow development time down significantly, not allow for certain functionality to exist (functionality you would 100% be unhappy was missing).

Its not a question of possibility, its a question of feasibility.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish JS would die and we get nice and simple websites back. I hate web dev so god damn much. The internet is pure enshittification

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I don't know how to tell you this, but removing JS doesn't turn the internet into a wonderland. Capitalism is to blame for enshitification not JS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m a React dev. You can create server side websites, written in JS, that don’t require JS to be turned on in the browser. Granted, this just became a new official feature in React but has already been available with React frameworks like NextJS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That is insane! I'm wondering how they handle modifying the DOM w/ out JS, did HTML 5 get a significant update? I gotta look into this because that sound super interesting.

Any chance you know what version that went out with? I did a brief look at 18 and 17 and couldnt find it. Id really love to know how they are managing this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It’s called Server Components. If you actually build a fully static website, there is no DOM modification going on. I would actually not recommend doing that with React because it kinda defeats the purpose. The goal of it is to have a mix of both. The initial render is super fast because it is prerendered once for everyone. Then dynamic data is being fetched if needed and elements are replaced. It also improves SEO.

React 19 is not yet officially released but you can read more about it here https://react.dev/blog/2024/04/25/react-19

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you're offloading the JS processing onto the server? I cant be understanding this correctly because there is no way anyone wants to pay for the serverside cost of something that used to be an end user "cost". Also this would add interaction latency.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There is no latency on static pages. They are rendered once as regular HTML and then saved on the server to be immediately ready for the user. The server is only processing that initial data fetching and rendering once per site. If needed, it can be retriggered. This is great for blogs and other regular pages.

Server pages on the other hand will do the initial fetch request every time but once the site is there, no data is missing and everything is there. It’s not for everyone. Regular dynamic pages still make sense. For every method there are use cases.

Disclaimer: I’m speaking from my experience with Next.js which did the same thing long before and React now aims to make that easier. But I’m not sure if React has the distinction between static and server. It’s all new and I haven’t had a project to test it on yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh I see, its only for a static page. This makes so much more sense.

I can see why you mentioned this feature fits weird with react, and I have to agree, its contradictory to the entire purpose of React lol.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It does make sense when you mix. You get the benefit of instant rendering and dynamic content all in one. And web dev becomes even more complicated…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Hey that's some good job security, learn the niche thing and become irreplaceable.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Google is a text input and a list of links. It should work without JS.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

No offense intended, but why are you still using Google? Startpage has anonyomized results from Google. DuckDuckGo is good enough for most people as well. Brave search also exists if you don't mind supporting that shitty company.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

https://search.inetol.net/

It's also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

https://searx.space/

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I might be out of my depth here, but isn't like virtually the entire internet powered by Javascript? What are the negative implications for Google requiring JS?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A lot of the web is powered by JS, but much less of it needs to be. Here's a couple of sites that are part of a trend to not unnecessarily introduce it:

http://youmightnotneedjs.com/

https://htmx.org/

The negative implications for Google requiring JS is that they will use it to track everything possible about you that they can, even down to how you move your cursor, or how much battery you have left on your phone in order to jack up prices, or any other number of shitty things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

JS is like a disease where it does not need to be. I would honestly welcome an Internet alternative that was all web 1.0 (with up-to-date security updates and methods). There's good uses for it in interactive websites that provide cloud services, but most of it is fud and breaks the whole notion of HTTP GET URLs you can just share and cache.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Htmx does use javascript under the hood, but just makes it so the developer can use html markdown for more a more interactive environment that's driven sever side. So the initial page load should render, but UI elements might not work as intended.

htmx is more a move back to REST as it was originally defined (aka not json backend).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

AFAIK Startpage gives you google results with your privacy intact and less ads.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I get a notification every month telling me that they will charge me for my monthly Kagi subscription and every single month i feel the same:

'Totally worth it!'

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like their pricing would make more sense if you could just pay for your usage, rather than forcing a subscription

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They do have different tiers depending on your search volume and features, so in a way they already have this. I'd hate to have to go through checkout every time i did a search.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why do you think you have to go through a checkout?

They could just pool your owed money and then charge you that at the end of the month, or let you maintain a pool that you throw money into that they take from as you use it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They have 100, 300, and unlimited for $0, $5, and $10

How much would you be willing to pay per search? And do you know how many searches you make every month?

For me, i pay not for the searches as such, but to not be tracked and be shown more ads than search results

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven't been using kagi long enough to really understand how it works yet, but it's my understanding that they want you to pay every month, even if you had remaining searches from the previous month.

If I pay $5 for 300 searches, why does it matter if I do them within a time frame? When someone isn't' searching, they aren't really costing Kagi anything.

Alternatively, let people pay 1.6 cents per search (or 1.8 cents or something).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Basically because the product they're selling isn't "You get to do a search whenever" but "You get to do a search this month".

The reason for that, based on my experience with various web startups, is they want to maximize the predictability of their resource usage in terms of staff and servers.

If millions of people pay their $5 and then don't use their searches, then in the extreme case Kagi could be maintaining servers twenty years later in anticipation that their customers might use those searches.

It's an edge case, but it illustrates the point.

Also, on the customer side, there's a psychological benefit to free things. Free as in "already paid for; no cost to using it".

If you have something that can be used this month but not any other month, then using it is free. If using it now means you can't use it next year, then there's still a cost to it despite it already being paid for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

they want to maximize the predictability of their resource usage in terms of staff and servers.

I think you are definitely correct here. However, you are overlooking the actual main goal of every business - making as much money as possible.

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