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Re:PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available by heavyset_go on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:03PM (#25269223)
It isn't the Bootstrap-like frameworks that are causing bloat. It's that websites are written as apps these days by people with relatively beefy machines compared to consumers who don't usually buy top of the line hardware every year.

For example, compare Twitter or Facebook to their recent SPA rewrites in React. I can't use either without sacrificing GBs of residential memory. Loading anything on those sites now requires many more CPU cycles than they did before.

Re:PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available by girvo on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:24AM (#25276553)
Reddit is the worst offender for me. I don’t know if they use react? But whatever they’ve done, it’s horrific. It’s bad even on my top of the line 2020 Intel 13” MacBook Pro (the i7 one)!
Re:PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available by heavyset_go on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:00AM (#25277575)
Pretty sure they do, or at least they use another SPA framework. I would have mentioned Reddit, but forgot about its rewrite because old.reddit.com still works.