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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by reeestandard on Friday September 04, 2020 @07:17AM (#24373914)
I feel bad for the engineers because surely they knew the new site was incredibly slow and poorly optimised, so it must have been pushed through by management. It looks alright, but dear god the performance.
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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by HumblyTossed on Friday September 04, 2020 @08:36AM (#24374366)
> ... because surely they knew the new site was incredibly slow and poorly optimised...

I wouldn't be so sure. It really depends on the quality of the engineers. And if they're quality why are they working for Reddit pushing out crappy software? Could be a case of resume driven development.

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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by freyr on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:04PM (#24377392)
I'd like to give the engineers and designers the benefit of the doubt, but there are better ways to do what they tried to do.

Somewhere in the engineering hierarchy, some very poor decisions were made.

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