Re:Is the web getting slower?
by mpoteat on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:06PM
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Maybe the users are too blame as they measurably prefer websites with modern UX and don't really care about latency over a few hundred milliseconds.
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Re:Is the web getting slower?
by searchableguy on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:10PM
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Not really. People are forced to use many products of big companies and others which are largely responsible for this.
If your school uses gsuite (which they likely will given free stuff and integration), you can't choose not to use gsuite.
> People are forced to use many products of big companies and others which are largely responsible for this.
Same way as dev employees are forced by companies to prioritise features over optimisation.
I don't think there's really a problem with a couple 100ms of latency for web services. However, what often happens, is that "modern" websites take many seconds to actually do simple operations which is clearly horrible design.
I literally despise new UX of gmail, Ive switched to html version simply because I dont need the bloat crap they try to push at me while checking mailbox...
Yet they keep on adding more and more crap, soon Gmail is going to load for over a minute..