Reddit files to go public

Re:Reddit files to go public by GekkePrutser on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @11:31PM (#29574878)

It's just a sucky pile of JavaScript libraries.. I'm always stuck looking at the "pulsing gray bars as a placeholder for text" for way too long. They should focus on making it perform so it doesn't need tricks like that.

My main driver isn't the fastest (skylake i5) but it's much slower than any of the other sites I use. And on my gaming pc (Ryzen 5 5600) it's slow too. And I have 1gbit fibre.

Ps serious question, isn't it difficult being a UX designer when you've been off the internet for 8 years? Stuff has really changed a lot.

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Re:Reddit files to go public by kingcharles on Thursday December 16, 2021 @01:39AM (#29575660)

My only driver is a $300 Acer Windows 10 laptop and new Reddit works great for me on Chrome.

I really don't think the Web has changed very much at all in the time I was gone. Pages are much better at being responsive. Bloat is 100X worse, but was solved by installing an adblocker. The cookie pop-ups can fuck themselves. But, fundamentally, nothing is different. I like that CSS and HTML have advanced to the point where it is simpler and cleaner to write good code if you are a decent human being.

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