AI slop websites rise (and their coming fall)

Neo | Internet Of The Bots — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:56:37 +0000

I think this picture above says more than a thosuand words. I think if you are a serious person, you will always prefer the website on the left.

AI opened up the flood gates, now everybdoy can be a developer. People who don't understand anything about design suddenly joined the space. And they flood the internet with all these slop websites.

But even before AI there was already a rise in these overstyled websites. funnly enough some companies are now reverting their desgin decisons. I think a good example for this is stripe:

as you can see they are going back to a more rigid, old looking desgin. Not flashy but functional.

Thats what we need again, simple tool websites. Or simple blogs. Just How the internet used to be.

I think Google contributed to this decline of the web. Their SEO search engine rewards bloat websites. These fricking FAQ's is anybdoy actually reading those?

How do you think this trend will continue?
Are we going back to oldschool?
What do you prefer modern websites, or old websites?

Here you can check out the full blog post: https://linkifier.me/blog/ai_slop_post_1.html

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AI slop websites rise (and their coming fall)