The National Weather Service, one of the few parts of the United States Government that does genuine good and nothing else, now has a website that is functionally inaccessible without a JavaScript-contaminated "Web" browser.
I am so fucking tired of everyone and their mother deciding that reinventing pure and simple HTML in fucking supercomputer-needing slow as script JavaShit is somehow the better future of the World Wide Web.
YOUR WEBSITE IS NOT THE ONLY APPLICATION I NEED TO RUN AT A SINGLE TIME! YOUR WEBSITE SHOULDN'T EVEN **BE** A FUCKING APPLICATION JUST TO SHOW SIMPLE TEXT, YOU TECHBRO-ADMIRING DUMBASSES!
The irony of complaining about websites turned applications is not lost on me, one who runs and pays the bills for a website turned application that I'm using to voice that complaint.
@arielmt I don't think it's ironic. A dynamic realtime communications platform is different from a source of information with a single controlling entity providing it for you to read.
@arielmt With that said, I would utterly love a fediverse microblog implementation that serves entirely static html for your feeds and optionally updates when you interact with first-gen ajax mechanisms, falling back gracefully to page reload if js is disabled.
Weather.gov is back to the way it's been for a while. Local forecasts are accessible in JS-disable and JS-free browsers again.
I hope they got complaints of the sort I could only send into the void and realized what they undid was a bad decision.