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Nothing about Medium is lightweight. Consider this one-sentence article that results in a 1.2MB pageload: https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalis

by stonogo 10y ago

Nothing about Medium is lightweight. Consider this one-sentence article that results in a 1.2MB pageload: https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1412524 https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1... There are more examples and a broader examination available from idlewords: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

djrogers 10y ago
Lucky you - that medium link was a 2.19MB download on my laptop.
- bartread 10y ago
  That's really strange. 760KB for me, but it was a good 3 - 4 seconds before everything had rendered. The article content was there much more quickly, but the recommendations and responses sections below took longer to appear. Crazy because when you look at Medium it does appear to be very clean so this experience has certainly been somewhat disillusioning.