Organisations that have existing business processes to publish to print and pdf but now want to publish in responsive formata for mobile or even desktop web.
Changing their process might be more expensive than paying a lot of money for them to carry on as is for a few more years while getting the benefit of modern eyes on their content.
Edit: concrete example would be government publications like budget narrative documents.
Yeah while I think one of the hardest parts if a software developer's job (working at multiple levels of abstraction), that's literally the job. You're translating between the business and the sillicon.
By all means restrict yourself to assembly but yhe rest of us will get more done by using things at convenient levels of abstraction for those specific units.
This says it's very either or, and I think misses the point of a lot of nocode tools.
One of the best measures of tools is their composability. Can you use this for what it's good at, and integrate that solution with another tool that's much harder to use but can solve the last 5-10% that's just too hacky or not supported directly by this tool?
For my that's where zoho creator falls down a bit. Their APIs are just web form post handlers. But it works!
We're doing a lot of stuff on webflow by dropping some custom javascript in there to hook it up to an API or do some very data-driven stuff beyond their interactions.
The point is, nocode isn't just for proofs of concepts, although it's great for that.
When evaluating nocode tools, look for integration/extension points, and think about your migration path should you need to replace it. Hopefully you're succefful enough to need that but don't build 100% of your app by hand because 10% actually needs hand-written code.
Wow. I literally just sat down to relax after building a cardboard prototype cat door fitting in my open window in winter. You just made me feel partly inferior, and partly like I'm in good company
Do we have any evidence that these issues are really the causes of people consuming news elsewhere?
- Clickbait headings with misleading information
Does this really put off more than about 10% of people? Even if people find it distasteful, do people actually resist clicking?
- Disabling the user from reading if ad-block is present
What percentage of users use ad blockers these days? And how many just disable it to read the thing they were willing to click for?
- Tracking the user with 3rd party scripts
Ok who actually leaves a site they believe tracks them? like 0.0001% of web users?
- Taking massive performance hits (specifically on mobile due to huge JavaScript blocks)
Maybe getting closer to what users actually care about
- Pop-up ads
Again - any evidence this puts normal internet users off so much they'd stop using a site? There must be a reason MEDIUM.COM and every single recipe blog pops up their newsletter subscription as intrusively as possible.
- Fixed headers or footers which leads to harder readability / accidental element interactions
Here's again an actual deterrent - if someone physically can't use a site, they might actually give up.
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I'm not saying news sites are not dumpster fires, but I'm a techie and love a good boycott.
I'd question the premise of this article - it seems to be very much from a techie privacy-active (not just concerned, but actually willing to take action) perspective which I suspect does not represent the majority of the internet.
I suspect that if people are actually using news sites less, it's because of much simpler reasons...like that Google intercepts a user's attempt to read news linking to their favourite publications.
Changing their process might be more expensive than paying a lot of money for them to carry on as is for a few more years while getting the benefit of modern eyes on their content.
Edit: concrete example would be government publications like budget narrative documents.