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After I wait eight seconds for the page to load, I see your lovely reminder that I should "View Reddit in the app because I deserve the best." At the very least
by fny 9y ago
After I wait eight seconds for the page to load, I see your lovely reminder that I should "View Reddit in the app because I deserve the best." At the very least, you could have the decency to harass me about your app while I'm already waiting.
Also, I can load the desktop version of the site in under a second on my phone. IMO y'all should've stuck with some good old fashion HTML and CSS, especially since there's nothing dynamic about Reddit's content.
Hell, you guys could probably get away with responsive styles alone, but I get it. As a business, you find it optimal to piss off your users into downloading an app so you can send them push notifications, dig into their contacts, and find out where they're eating tacos.
- Figs 9y ago> IMO y'all should've stuck with some good old fashion HTML and CSS, especially since there's nothing dynamic about Reddit's content. Agreed. I use mobile tethering as my home internet. Currently reddit loads in under 1 second per page usually. The new JS-heavy profile page usually takes 5 seconds or more to load (assuming I'm willing to enable JS to see whatever crap is on one when I bump into them -- usually I'm not...) Note that that's with full bandwidth. When I hit my data cap, I'm throttled to 8KB/s... The current design of reddit is one of the few sites that I can actually reliably load quickly under those conditions! They should seriously think twice about throwing away something that works that well.