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> It's crippled without JS It's an SPA. What did you expect? That's the new M.O., unless you're a 90's relic like myself, in which case I appreciate your point
by pmarreck 9y ago
> It's crippled without JS
It's an SPA. What did you expect? That's the new M.O., unless you're a 90's relic like myself, in which case I appreciate your point but times change.
- Zak 9y agoThere are some use cases for which SPAs are a huge leap forward, greatly improving the user experience. A lot of modern web applications don't and shouldn't behave like a collection of pages, after all. A blog is not one of these use cases; it is exactly a collection of pages.
- et-al 9y agoNot to mention, as a SPA, Medium is a total failure. Trying to read a string of comments on Medium results in a bunch of unnecessary clicks and page reloads. I guess it's upping their click count..
- acqq 9y agoI have thought it was intentional, to reduce the number of comments and motivate the writers to write their own real big posts instead. The way I see it, medium doesn't want to be a forum, but to have people write the full articles. Even those who respond.
- et-al 9y agoI can see that. But it's tiresome as a reader.
- Lazare 9y ago> It's an SPA. Yes, that's the problem. > What did you expect? Technology to be used in an appropriate manner to achieve business goals. > That's the new M.O. ...for apps, yes. This isn't an app, it's a blog. Of all the things on the internet that could be handled by a static page of HTML and CSS with maybe some JS to offer extra features, this is it.
- pmarreck 9y agoFair enough!