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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by Jensson on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:40AM (#38347135)
The prevailing developer discussions going from "Load speed doesn't matter, stop complaining about useless stuff" to "load times matters, but here we choose to make it slow for other reasons" is a massive improvement though. Today speed is valued, it wasn't back then.
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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by bbarnett on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:49AM (#38347981)
Untrue. I optimized pages pre-2000, and it had always mattered.

It's always, always mattered. If anything, people care less today, with the entire ridiculous 100 loads per page.

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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by Jensson on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:08AM (#38349868)
Of course it always mattered. But at the time lots of people argued it didn't matter, which is why the headline is "Speed matters". You thinking it did matter at the time doesn't mean the general community thought so.
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Re:YouTube artificially slows down video load times when usi... by bbarnett on Monday November 20, 2023 @01:20PM (#38352008)
But the general community did care about speed. Everyone worked towards small load times, optimized (for example) image size for optimal load time, everyone cared.

Whomever didn't care was weird.

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