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[META] Is it even worth posting to /r/webdev at this point?

Looking at the posts in /hot they're just filled with AI-generated comments, which just aren't removed by moderators.

Is it even worth posting here when reading the comments they're just AI slop followed by more AI slop.

Do the users who submit interesting topics even realize they're just replying to AI comments?

Looking at this post for example, there's this user whose comments all follow the same pattern: start with tbh/ngl and most of the time introduce an em-dash in the middle of the comment. In the same post you have this other user whose comments all have 3-4 paragraphs, and just have an off tone. Another user and same story: 3-4 paragraphs, an off tone, weirdly worded comments which end up summarizing the topic they're replying to.

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submitted by /u/IAmNotAnHipHopHead to r/webdev
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Adding a blog to an existing HTML site in 2026

I want to add a blog to my site to jump on this GEO train. WordPress feels like overkill, and I've seen some plug-and-play solutions that would live on a subdomain or outside the main directory, which doesn't sound good for SEO/GEO.

I don't want to vibe code as there would be multiple people publishing, and not all of them are tech savvy.

Anyone has a good way to solve this? I know I should've started blogging already, so really want to solve this quick. Some sort of headless CMS could work, but the ones I looked at come with way too much bloat that I don't need. Hope someone here went through the same thing.

submitted by /u/truecakesnake to r/webdev
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Web Accessibility - Narrator bug logged.

If, like me, you have the Narrator screen reader in your test matrix, you may want to check your disclosures.

I’ve found that when a disclosure button uses aria-expanded together with aria-controls (which had, or has, limited support in JAWS), Narrator sometimes doesn’t announce the expanded/collapsed state in Edge or Chrome. It’s fine in Firefox.

If you omit aria-controls, Narrator announces the state correctly in Edge and Chrome.

I’ve reported this to both Microsoft (via Feedback Hub) and Chromium (via the issue tracker).

Personally, I wouldn’t add aria-controls to disclosures unless you have a specific need for it.

Hopefully that’s useful to some of you.

submitted by /u/code-dispenser to r/webdev
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