An experiment
Going deeper.
A page that doesn't behave. Scroll down through space and into the ocean. Click the asteroids. Feed the kelp. Stay a while.
You start in orbit.
Most of the web is documents. Pages that load fast, work everywhere, and get out of the way. That is good — it is the right shape for almost everything.
But occasionally the right shape is a place. A scene you sit inside for a minute before reading what is there. Worth building, even if you only get to use it a few times.
Try clicking one of the asteroids drifting overhead.
Falling through.
The gradient is doing the work here. No teleporters, no transitions, no "next chapter" page. Just a long descent. You are passing through atmosphere, through cloud, through the surface, into water.
Most websites are afraid of long pages. They cram everything above the fold. This one expects you to scroll, and rewards you for it.
The deep.
Below the photic zone the light fails. The animals down here make their own. Kelp does not actually grow this deep — but the metaphor is more important than the marine biology, and besides, it is my ocean.
Click a kelp frond. Tadpoles will come.
The point of the page is itself. There is no upsell, no funnel, no gated content at the bottom. If you got to here you got the thing.
— D.