You can disagree with the design you prefer, but there are design fundamentals that are non-negotiable.
The minimal "spartan" design of Sourcehut probably works great for their audience. The same design approach would not work for Stripe.
The minimal "spartan" design of Sourcehut probably works great for their audience. The same design approach would not work for Stripe.
The homepage is basically a book you have to read from top to bottom, without any content structure your eyes can hook up to to correctly extract important information.
Hacker news is what i'd call minimalist, but your eyes can immediately identify the various content blocs and functions.
Are you talking about this page? https://sourcehut.org/
It seems like the opposite to me, each feature has a big heading that you can quickly read to get an overview of all the features, with smaller, more detailed descriptions below.
This is an example of a total misunderstanding of one of the most basic graphical design principle : you don't group together information that is not related.
Only within a given culture, and only within a given span of time.
Unless designers think that some cultures are wrong, of course.
And what those fundamentals are changes with the fashions of the era.
For example, frames were once good design, and proper.
Image maps were once good design, and proper.
Both of those things are forgotten now.
It was possible to do both bad and good design with them.