Rant: A guy in a Discord CSS chat dismissed my workaround because 'it was too simple'

I spent 3 days building this wild nested grid animation for a card flip effect, tons of calc() and keyframes. I posted it in a small Discord server last Tuesday, and this one dude just said 'that's just a transition with a rotateY, not worth sharing.' It stung because the whole point was avoiding the extra wrapper div, and my way cut the CSS down to like 40 lines instead of 120. He didn't even look at the code, just assumed it was something basic. idk, maybe I'm overthinking it, but it made me wonder if this community only celebrates bloated, overengineered stuff. Has anyone else had their clean, minimal fix get totally dismissed by someone who didn't even read it?

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grant56921d ago

I mean, I once spent a whole weekend tweaking a hover effect and someone just said 'that's just a scale with a delay.' And honestly, they were kind of right, but it still stung. It's like people think if the code is easy to read, it must be lazy. Like, no, I just did the work in my head instead of dumping it all over the screen. Maybe we should start posting our refactors with like a fake 200 line version first, just to impress people. Idk, seems dumb but it might work.