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Re:We are the Starlink team, ask us anything by woah on Saturday November 21, 2020 @01:19PM (#25171536)
My wife has tens of Reddit tabs open on a 5 year old bottom of the line 12” mini MacBook. HN users seem to have a lot of difficulty getting their computers to evaluate JavaScript normally.
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Re:We are the Starlink team, ask us anything by chmod775 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @01:33PM (#25171649)
Here's a video of myself doing a cold load of the new reddit in a private tab: https://streamable.com/3qk7rw

It takes a good minute before the site even becomes interactive. If I was logged in it would be even worse with it having to load the text editor thingy etc.

Don't mind me typing "what?" in the search bar there, I thought the close button would just dismiss the bar at the top. Also note that I had uBlock active which blocked some requests. I don't even want to know how long it would take without it.

And for comparison here's old reddit: https://streamable.com/z2ath6

Do you seriously want to defend this?

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Re:We are the Starlink team, ask us anything by lukevp on Saturday November 21, 2020 @01:55PM (#25171828)
The render looked fast. Perhaps the buttons have click events intercepted by an analytics library, and the async requests to load analytic libraries have to time out first? Can you network tools the load? I’m not saying the new site is fast or anything but it surely doesn’t take a minute to become interactive in most cases. Also are you using any dns based blocking like pi holes? Sometimes this can cause a network request to time out rather than instantly fail.
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Re:We are the Starlink team, ask us anything by chmod775 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @02:04PM (#25171895)
New reddit: https://streamable.com/o6wy2x

Old reddit: https://streamable.com/k99kuo

Looks like the reddit servers are just slow, but the old reddit doesn't need to load so many JS files to become usable. Even if it is only halfway loaded you can already interact with it.

Because of the amount of JS files that the new reddit needs, it's not even a contest.

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Re:We are the Starlink team, ask us anything by eska on Sunday November 22, 2020 @10:28AM (#25178166)
The render looked fast.

Gigabit internet, super computers in our pockets.. and people think this is "fast". This is why we can't have nice things..

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Re:We are the Starlink team, ask us anything by celsoazevedo on Saturday November 21, 2020 @01:27PM (#25171613)
Pages don't take 1 min to load on my 2019 16" Macbook Pro, but the experience is worse than old.reddit.com. For example, scrolling isn't smooth.
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