Decaying Sites

The content of the website will naturally age, which is called "link rot". Unrenewed domain names, bankrupt companies, website owners who have lost interest… What’s more frustrating than the 404 error is that visiting a URL that once existed only to find it expired and falls into the hands of domain hoarders, waiting for a high price to redeem.

This is not a good experience. But what if the website still exists, but the content is outdated? How can we cleverly suggest this intentional "old feeling"?

On the CodePen blog, we will specifically tag blog posts that have not been updated for at least two years. We update the documents, but we usually keep blog posts as history. So we are very clear about this:

 <?php if (get_the_modified_date("Y") < 2017) { ??><p> <strong>Notice!</strong> This blog post has not been updated for more than two years. CodePen continues to evolve and if this blog post mentions features, you'd better check <a href="https://www.php.cn/link/0f0ca97dacf1e61f790dc8e6e138dd42">the documentation</a> . If you have any other questions, please contact <a href="https://www.php.cn/link/0c13d6d3b3743756e05bd42f3afb2d52">support</a> .</p>
<?php } ??>

We designed it as a small warning:

But what if it is less obvious? If the text starts to become blurry and falls off the line? The older the content, the more serious the decay:

What if the website is deliberately "aging"? For example, you are working on a project for a client, but the client has not paid yet. Dragoi Ciprian provides a small solution (code base) for this. You just need to set the expiration date and the expiration date:

 var due_date = new Date('2017-02-27');
var days_deadline = 60;

This is a demonstration. At the time of writing, there are 30 days left until the 90-day deadline. If the demo is blank for you, then I guess I should pay so that this code can be deleted?

Alternatively, the screen may flash red, just like being hit in the game.

Or, you can make it malfunction! (This demonstration is a click load, with fast color changes and movement, please note.)

Perhaps, instead of determining the effect based on the payment due date or the age of the content, it is better to decide based on the time when the website dependencies were last updated. Or at least some kind of deployment has been made.

It's just slightly related, but it reminds me of the very scary game Lose/Lose:

Lose/Lose is a video game with real-life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on random files on the player's computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on will be deleted. If the player's ship is destroyed, the app itself will also be deleted.

Although contact with aliens will cause players to lose the game and kill aliens can get points, aliens will never attack players. This makes people question the player's mission, which has never been clearly stated, but is only hinted through the classic game mechanics. Should the player be the invader? Or is it just an observer, traveling through dangerous lands?

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