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This looks so much like https://dns.he.net/ that it seems to me it can’t be a coincidence. Is this a case of copying a well known design or is there more to it?

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It's possible they are both descendants from XName: https://web.archive.org/web/20120625081138/http://source.xna...

The "portal" layout style was very popular on Web 1.0, reminds me of PHP-Nuke.

omg, invoking php-nuke brings me back. fun era (recent php2shell wild ride notwithstanding). Honestly it's more like web 1.5 - not straight up hand written html but no wild client side stuff either.

And yes, there absolutely was a "look" that's a product of the technology of the time - tables for design, limited styling / js support, php "components" that you could load and replace as part of your portal, and "themes".

and it's so fast. clicks respond instantaneously even though the whole page has to be fetched and re-rendered.

we lost so much with SPAs and js everywhere.

htmx will save us!

That's how gitea/forgejo feel. Most pages don't do ajax but it's still super fast.

> PHP-Nuke

There's a name I haven't heard in a while!

My online diary started with PHP-Nuke. Then went to PostNuke for many years. Then to Drupal, where it still is. 26 years of content hehe. (Wish I’d picked Wordpress instead of Drupal but too many links to change now)

Thank you - flashback achieved!

Doesn't look that similar to me, they both just look a bit old.

I wouldn't think much of it. It was a popular design trend for a while there; some just never updated. I don't blame them, it's fairly decent on readability and minimalism.

Both are probably just old and reliable

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