alt Hacker NewsI just can't fathom how a multi-billion dollar company like Cloudflare could forego their design standards. They seem to have updated their landing page [0], but it's still very sloppy.
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Cloudflare is slopped out these days. Tons of people uncoordinated, all flailing around. Vibe flailing, I suppose.
tbh, they don't really need the website, it could just be a simple pure text website with a simple tagline explaining what they do, a sign in and sign up button, that's it.
what really matters the most is the dashboard.
They can probably get away with it at this point. Cloudflare already has the name and reputation, so I doubt a sloppy landing page costs them much business.
Are they not just dogfooding here?
Cloudflare is a truly bizarre company. First scammers predictably imitated their "turnstile" and phished using the clipboard.
Now they explicitly train people to use the clipboard. Clownflare.
My sister's boss fired her (small education) company's web designer.
When you do things like that, you can't escape the slope even when you realize your mistake. (Since it's an education company, people notice illiterate garbage).
I would think it's a phishing site with that word mark.
Cloudflare is a complete disaster these days, its quite an embarrassing fall from grace. I feel for the few engineers that still remotely care about their craft that work there.
Really? I'm more surprised when I see a large company still have design standards. It seems it's all the rage to fire all your UX people and have your devs wipe up a UI because "UI is so easy."
Follow design standards? Fuck no, we need to STAND OUT instead. If you find the design hard to use as a result of not following standards your just an old curmuddgen.
This hurts my eyes. There's no contrast.
Immediately reminded me of https://fingerprint.com/, which is funny, but not really.
We're down this now? Come on. A landing page doesn't need a ton of design for a company as well known as Cloudflare.
The site is just fine.
Stop already with the AI doomerism.
lol what are you talking about? Cloudflare fucking sucks. If this is cause or consequence of being a multi-billion dollar company, I cannot tell.
Their UI being bad is the least of their problems.
Cloudflare WARP suffered a similar downgrade recently when it went from a nifty menubar app on macOS to a vibecoded window built with flutter