Berd

tosh 29 points 28 comments August 19, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (15 comments)

nylonstrung

It's actively unhelpful even for the most "non-technical" of users to further anthropomorphize LLMs and "agentic" workflows that boil down to moving plaintext around The design is cute but this is an abstraction that simply has no reason to exist, and is the opposite of what better UX looks

omeysalvi

Keeping aside the functionality of the app, the vibe of the web page and those mascots is NOT IT. They are unsettling and creepy

rw2

Branding is crazy good

Klaster_1

Not to be confused with Berd spokes/wheels.

Liftyee

Fittingly for an AI page, the "Easter egg" page lags my phone significantly.

tosh

nb: this is by block ( https://block.xyz )

ura_yukimitsu

I know my office computer isn't very powerful, but holy lag batman! I get between 1 and 10 FPS on that website.

grugdev42

This website is not very user friendly. Huge amount of assets to load, an unclear product, and a visually distracting experience.

thinkingemote

I actually like the design. It's the product of a human and it's fun. It also feels like it's playing with jokes about brain-rot aesthetic so communicates a contemporary and young point of view. It's cool. The thing it's selling doesn't appeal to me in the slightest but they have tried and have some human ideas in the webdesign. Cool design if cringe product

ofjcihen

Coming off of a full 24 hour incident response and clicking this has me wondering about my choices.

RamblingCTO

Wtf is this shit? The page nuked my browser, then I got a jump scare from the weird sounds. What's wrong with them?

danirod

Finally Homer's Web Page [1] is a real thing! [1] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/homer-s-web-page-200...

oidar

The repository: https://github.com/block/berd

_leom

I have never been so confused visiting a website before in my life jesus christ

senectus1

wow... i thought I had already lived through peak brain rot.... I was so very wrong.

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