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GrayShift is targeting government and large companies as customers, it will likely not be a quality website.

Amen to that. My company does very large cyber security contracts for DoD and has a god awful home page. It's almost like a badge of honor to someone how bad it is.

Maybe there's a style guide for the US intelligence/cybersecurity apparatus that demands ugly design straight out of the 90s? Maybe that style guide is also top secret ;-)

I've been wondering about that since Snowden afforded us a glimpse into the internal PowerPoint world of the NSA. That stuff - all of it - looked just like I would have designed presentations around 1996. When I first discovered PowerPoint. As a kid.

I imagine a lot of government agencies are still using IE6 internally which probably explains this.

any organization that has to support computers that were brand new in the 90s ends up with websites like this. you literally cannot do any better. plus the same users would want the same look even when they're going onto a newer pc which further constrains designs. hell this is happening to apple right now - look at their giant wonky volume button and full screen call window when the rest of the mobile world has already ditched those design concepts? settings are also still hidden in the settings menu even though it is bog standard on android to be able to directly goto a settings menu from a toggle via long press

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