This looks interesting! Will check it out thanks!

I love this idea haha - like crowd sourcing posts… because ADHD 😆

Thank you! I need to write more. Or, should I say, publish more. I have about 100 posts in draft but I can never get any of them over the line!

Thanks for sharing @priyanca.bsky.social, it’s also helped me notice that the meta description for this deck is wildly incorrect! 😆

Die hard is a Christmas tradition in our house 😆

Yep! They’ll usually diagnose anything which falls under “common mental health conditions”. Anxiety and Depression are the main two, but there are others, like OCD and addiction. When the case is severe, complex or uncommon, then they’ll refer to a psychiatrist.

That’s not necessarily true. Sure, a psychiatrist will diagnose neurodivergent conditions like ADHD and Autism etc, but GP’s will readily diagnose and prescribe for mental health conditions like anxiety and depression, which the article seems to be more focused around.

If you flip the response around, if GP’s believe there’s a problem with over-diagnosis, do they also believe a lot of people are being mis-diagnosed? They’re the ones doing the diagnosing, so are they incompetent or do people fit the criteria?

Got you. Then yeah, that makes total sense!

I think this is what I was trying to understand when you said small websites. I was thinking about it from a traffic perspective, but if you mean moving parts and complexity, then GOV is obviously a very simple structure

I also appreciate that GOVUK websites are boring as f… They don’t need to handle a lot of complex interactions. It’s perhaps not a great comparison. But it does show HTML will scale far beyond what a lot of people think it’s capable of.

You’re right, it does, they use a CMS called Whitehall Publisher for parts of it. So not all of it is static. But most of their digital services which handle applications for everything in Gov, are mostly just static HTML pages, either written by hand or compiled from Nunjucks templates.

I think it depends what you mean by small. Websites like GOVUK and parts of the BBC handle millions of visits per day using good ol’ HTML. Inefficiencies, poor architectural decisions or committing to a framework which doesn’t scale is going to kill your website way faster than using stock HTML.

Not necessarily a list as such, but there are a few good things dotted about the GOVUK Service Manual and the GDS blog from back in the day designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2017/03/24/d...

Thanks dude!

For what it’s worth, I stand by the principle though. I’m tired of people discounting others on their own assumptions about what they can and cannot do, or should and shouldn’t do. I’ve met brilliant visually impaired designers. Tools and attitudes often hold them back far more than their eyesight.