This is why is I keep using RSS even though many people say it's dead. I even went ahead to create a curated feed [2] for Hacker News to pair with my RSS reade

This is why is I keep using RSS even though many people say it's dead. I even went ahead to create a curated feed [2] for Hacker News to pair with my RSS reader [3]. I stopped doing casual web browsing years ago when many web owners started to bloat their websites with an extravagant amount of ads, excessive JavaScript code, and unnecessary "enhancements" (like custom scrolling experiences and the like). Nowadays, websites like Hacker News, the old Reddit interface, Craiglist, and similar are the only ones that I find myself visiting, just because they are among the few hundreds that still load with server-side generated HTML and the UI is fairly minimal [3]. It doesn't helps much that the same front-end programmers that helped increase the bloat in today's web are the same group of programmers building "modern" desktop software, looking at you Electron. They may call it convenient and productive all they want, but to me —and many others— it just means they are lazy and cheap. Not long ago I read an article from the author of TablePlus [4] explaining how he decided to build his app using native libraries even weighing the pros-and-cons of other GUI frameworks, including Electron, coming to the conclusion that slowing development time was worthy if the resulting product was performant. Because at the end who is paying the bills? • A customer that enjoys a fast and resource efficient desktop experience? • Or the front-end programmer who's happy for using JavaScript to develop the app? Think about it. PS: almost 100% [5] :-) [1] https://github.com/cixtor/rssfeed https://github.com/cixtor/rssfeed [2] https://reederapp.com/ https://reederapp.com/ [3] https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/06/29/why-are-some-of-the-ugliest-sites-on-the-web-also-the-most-popular/ https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/06/29/why-are-some-of-the-ugl... [4] https://tableplus.io https://tableplus.io [5] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffabiensanglard.net%2Fbloated%2Findex.php https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...