halfspiral

Interesting views so far … please continue.
If Internet data was charged for, like electricity or water, we wouldn’t be so wasteful or flippant. I’m old school, when hard-drives were measured in MB and copper Internet was KB per second, so every bit and byte counted. Low prices, lots of choice and capacity in most commodities makes us wasteful and WordPress (the software) is bloated and does a bad and wasteful job of the media library. I wouldn’t dream of having 4 different sizes of shirt just in case I put on/lost weight.

I think all software should be modularised so you can take only the bits you need… come on, 1500 files to create an 18 page website is wasteful. PERIOD. I had to download the zip, unzip and upload again, configure, set-up, etc. It elongates web site creation to give one user the ability to edit a few sentences or add a few blog posts of content that no-one reads per year!! IT’S MADNESS and I don’t need science to tell me all that effort uses resources locally and globally (hardware, electricity and humans) that might be saved or not needed should I have created the site in box-standard HTML/CSS! Blogging in general is a waste of time – very few blogs are read in sufficient numbers to warrant their existence. STOP GIVING IT AWAY FOR FREE and I am convinced there would less ***p clogging up the web.
Don’t get me started on jQUERY and other libraries – more bloat just to make a slideshow or a bells & whistles catastrophe.

Web developers in my day knew how to optimise code to a minimum but now we seemingly have an abundance of free resources – sod the code and bloat.

Have you seen the computer hardware dumps … my real point is that this modern tech seems to encourage people to be wasteful and not give a hoot about what it might do to the planet… everything has a cost, even when it appears to be free.