There's never been a better time to build websites

Re:There's never been a better time to build websites by AJ007 on Monday December 20, 2021 @09:40AM (#29625373)

I would have been horrified if I saw what websites would look like in 2010+ when I first started using the web. The amount of unnecessary garbage and JS added to sites goes well beyond the adtech part. Half or more of sites using frameworks probably should never have used them.

A good contrast is Reddit vs hn. Reddit’s current site is basically unusable and sluggish on modern hardware that can you could train ML models with.

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Re:There's never been a better time to build websites by moritz on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:57AM (#29626278)

Just look at all the overhead of the article‘s website… When I first clicked the link the "website" crashed, so instead of the hot take, all I could read is that "addEventListener is not a function". That tells you all about the current state of affairs

(Yes I get that webdevs' personal sites are their playground)

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Re:There's never been a better time to build websites by dmitriid on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:09AM (#29626423)

That website also loads 184 KB of Javascript to display a 13 KB static document

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Re:There's never been a better time to build websites by raytube on Monday December 20, 2021 @03:48PM (#29630094)

It could sit on a shit ton of interpreter too.

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Re:There's never been a better time to build websites by xemdetia on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:36PM (#29631346)

My favourite recent incarnation if this is when YouTube has its JavaScript go sideways and then it blames the internet being out instead of doing anything productive

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