Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

sajithdilshan

What would have been nice is that depending on the visitors IP address’s region, showing a localised message instead of fixed number of languages

chews

it's nice, and it surprised me when I saw the redesign.... I use it to navigate into captive wifi portals that always seem to be misconfigured.

jamdav16

> there's a gradual opacity transition Looks like they removed this and instead just show all languages with no CSS animation now.

Lightbody

I’m curious… who hosts and controls this content? IANA? Never really considered this question until now…

zahrevsky

> There is no requirement there is a HTTP service present on the host in order to fulfill its purpose, we just operate it as a courtesy. I guess this is also done to prevent bad actors from abusing the fact that this domain is hit by people who might not know what they're doing (the ones copy-pasting code without reading it)

monskov

who's job was it to make incremental stylesheet changes on example.com in the 2010s?

Gualdrapo

> Along with introducing multi-language support, the JavaScript code also inserts an SVG book icon. Wait - using JS for dynamic content is understandable, but why using it for inserting a static SVG?

slipfold

Here is some context: https://kimdavies.com/being-exemplary

sea-gold

Discussed here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915060

reincoder

We (IPinfo) have a practice of adopting low-maintenance, high-utility services. Generally, we adopt websites that would have become defunct and run them as services. Even though IANA says example.com is intended for documentation purposes and not as a service, I feel that it nonetheless serves as a service to the broader internet. I think there are some cornerstone services on the internet, regardless of the maintainers' intentions or their legal definitions. For example, we ourselves sometimes have to recognize that we are not a standard API service. Considering that we expect to process 3 trillion requests this year, a major outage could take down a good chunk of IT systems everywhere. So, we invested in infrastructure to avoid outages. We then started adopting other cornerstone services and running them indefinitely because we might as well support the users who depend on them because we have infrastructure to support them and us.

adithyassekhar

The page mentions example.com 14 times and not a single one is a link

gumby

Static test is still, IMHO best, but if they want that fancy transition they could at least have used a gif. All that js is terrible overkill.

selcuka

I'm wondering how many automated tests this change broke. Yes, I know it's not the example.com's fault, and it's a side effect of Hyrum's Law: > This is not a service, avoid relying on it for testing and monitoring purposes. Don't we all have a few fragile tests?

lifeisloving

Ive been using example1.com recently for availability type testing for what its worth.

cute_boi

IANA, a natural monopoly, can't even host simple html page is kinda funny.

dangoodmanUT

the copy on example.com looks llm-generated now...

ChrisArchitect

Previously: IANA's email about why example.com changed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915060

gavino

Really funny coincidence, I noticed amazon wasn't loading a couple hours ago. Thought it was my internet so went to example.com to check and noticed the redesign. Figured it was a while ago though.

1vuio0pswjnm7

I just don't understand why the operator, IANA, has to use Cloudflare for example.com It cannot manage a one page website. WTF There are no page "aseets", no need for images, CSS, etc. It was a text-only website to test connectivity iana.org forwards to Cloudflare, too Fortunately the FTP server service still works Without assistance from a third party If it's been a sensible decision to use Cloudflare for some period of time then why did IANA wait until now (Yes, I know they used Akamai in the past)