How did the H1B visa become the 'Indian' visa
StrageMusik
32 points
14 comments
July 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (8 comments)
f30e3dfed1c9
You make this too hard to read. Constant scrolling for tiny little chunks of text. Sorry, ain't putting up with that.
5701652400
this is some next level rants
theandrewbailey
Don't fuck with scroll, please. Present the information as a normal page.
site-packages1
I thought the initial scroll thing at the top was kinda cool, but then I scrolled more and it just scrolled up tiny text windows at a time. I had to eject.
DerekL
The title is misspelled. It's “H-1B”, with a hyphen.
BrandoElFollito
I was actually interested in the contents but the scrolling is unbearable. It looks like some contemporary art and not a web page with stuff to read. No ideas how to design a site (or too many ideas)? The motherfucking website to the rescue! https://motherfuckingwebsite.com . It also has theee other incantations. Edit: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ is the next one, and the third one is not worth it
Glyptodon
I wonder if this works better on phones? From part 2 on it seemed like normal scroll to me. It presented some things I didn't know - I thought all H1Bs had to be advertised to US applicants, but it was just done in places nobody sees and applicants ignored, while this says most places don't even need to do that, for example. But I also think its timelines of things in India seemed sort of perfunctory and repetitive. As a tangent, I've long thought that the counterintuitive easy fix for some of the problems with these visas is to convert them to green cards faster (maybe 18 months?) as that should instantly help undo wage suppression pressures.
alexb23
This is interesting aggregated data for an informative report, but present it like a slide deck. It detracts and annoys rather than engage the reader. As others said, present it as a report, with more details on references for easier checking/diving deeper (e.g. web links!).