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Re:Reddit Is Killing 3rd-Party Apps, the Best Way to Read th... by azangru on Friday June 02, 2023 @10:09AM (#36165301)
> There must be some force here, because Twitter's UI is also garbage.

It's called modern frontend, I'm afraid :-)

By the way the next iteration of Reddit web UI, which this time is based on web components with Lit rather than on React, is less garbage — at least in terms of raw performance. Design-wise it may still be horrible; but at least technologically, it feels like a step in the right direction. You can check it out if you browse Reddit not logged-in.

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Re:Reddit Is Killing 3rd-Party Apps, the Best Way to Read th... by JohnFen on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:09AM (#36166194)
Raw performance is generally one of the least important things in a website, at least for me.
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Re:Reddit Is Killing 3rd-Party Apps, the Best Way to Read th... by azangru on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:32AM (#36166521)
I thought so too; but then I discovered that I was seeing seconds-long interaction delay on my old laptop after scrolling down the feed a bit. The performance profile I recorded in dev tools then looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/OSfzPDa.png

That was when I fully appreciated both that raw performance is important for me, and how truly horrible it was on the Reddit site.

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