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I do not understand what extra functionality is gained by making the site so much slower. I go on Reddit primarily for text content. Threaded comments and HTML

by rland 8y ago

I do not understand what extra functionality is gained by making the site so much slower. I go on Reddit primarily for text content. Threaded comments and HTML <a> tags. WHY does it NEED to be so SLOW? For this degree of sluggishness, it feels like you could build a site that fulfills all of reddit's functionality—and have a crypto miner running in the background.

mmagin 8y ago
I had the same feeling when Chase redesigned their online banking and I had to upgrade my dedicated linux banking computer from an old Lenovo Ideapad to a somewhat more powerful old Thinkpad.
- blunte 8y ago
  Wells Fargo took a mediocre but functional site and made a slow and useless site
kowdermeister 8y ago
Do you REALLY think they engineered it intentionally slow?
- greggyb 8y ago
  A couple of statements followed by a point. Performance is readily acknowledged as a feature.[0] There are gradations of intentionality and prioritization. I don't think anyone said, "Let's make the thing slow." That being said, there was definitely someone(s) out there intentionally prioritizing something(s) other than performance. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=performance+is+a+feature& https://duckduckgo.com/?q=performance+is+a+feature&
- vokep 8y ago
  Yes they did, by not engineering it to be intentionally fast.
- stephengillie 8y ago
  To switch from black/white hat hacker to tinfoil hat... who would make money from Reddit's site being slower and using more electricity?
  - cathhhhji 8y ago
    The Jews
meesterdude 8y ago
It's not about the users. The users have become the product - their new user base is advertisers.
JustSomeNobody 8y ago
Because the comment thread has to pop out and have a fancy grayed out background and infinite scroll and ... and ... because Javascript, dude! More Javascript makes everything slower, but it's so much better.

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I do not understand what extra functionality is gained by making the site so much slower. I go on Reddit primarily for text content. Threaded comments and HTML

by rland 8y ago

mmagin 8y ago
I had the same feeling when Chase redesigned their online banking and I had to upgrade my dedicated linux banking computer from an old Lenovo Ideapad to a somewhat more powerful old Thinkpad.
- blunte 8y ago
  Wells Fargo took a mediocre but functional site and made a slow and useless site
kowdermeister 8y ago
Do you REALLY think they engineered it intentionally slow?
- greggyb 8y ago
  A couple of statements followed by a point. Performance is readily acknowledged as a feature.[0] There are gradations of intentionality and prioritization. I don't think anyone said, "Let's make the thing slow." That being said, there was definitely someone(s) out there intentionally prioritizing something(s) other than performance. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=performance+is+a+feature& https://duckduckgo.com/?q=performance+is+a+feature&
- vokep 8y ago
  Yes they did, by not engineering it to be intentionally fast.
- stephengillie 8y ago
  To switch from black/white hat hacker to tinfoil hat... who would make money from Reddit's site being slower and using more electricity?
  - cathhhhji 8y ago
    The Jews
meesterdude 8y ago
It's not about the users. The users have become the product - their new user base is advertisers.
JustSomeNobody 8y ago
Because the comment thread has to pop out and have a fancy grayed out background and infinite scroll and ... and ... because Javascript, dude! More Javascript makes everything slower, but it's so much better.