How the Web Became Unreadable

Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by falcolas on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:33PM (#12745258)

Oddly enough, Reddit becomes much more usable with RES and keyboard navigation. It's primarily a consumption site, which makes the ability to expand images inline and navigate with the keyboard very valuable. The vanilla experience where you're constantly linking off to other heavy-weight sites and frequently reloading the reddit page when you come back (a trend I wish modern web browsers would burn) is rather negative.

With that in mind, it seems that simple text and links is perhaps not the optimal experience for every web site.

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Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by braveo on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @07:02PM (#12748465)

I use RES, but I hate most parts of it.

Have you ever compared the page load times of reddit with and without RES? It's horrific. And adjusting the settings? they have search functionality for the settings because there's so many settings.

The only things I use from RES are the account manager and the subreddit manager. I hate the never ending reddit with a burning passion, and don't even get me started on the highlighting posts that you've clicked on crap.

RES is a bloated monstrosity.

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Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by wott on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @10:32PM (#12749426)

It is very slow indeed. And I have the feeling it continues consuming resources even when the page is finally loaded and stabilised, because my browser gets somewhat slower when I have reddit+RES in a tab, even though I haven't switched to that tab in a while.

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Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by jbpetersen on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @01:31PM (#12745792)

Are you familiar with Vimium? I've been using it for keyboard navigation and RES for the rest.

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