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The new Reddit design is often much slower loading the first time than the old one. It's performant after that, but that first load is annoying.
by goatlover 8y ago
The new Reddit design is often much slower loading the first time than the old one. It's performant after that, but that first load is annoying.
- sgt 8y agoI just had to come back to this comment after testing in a couple of browsers, focusing on Safari and Chrome. Going to https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/9oz5sa/what_is_this_black_stuff_appearing_on_the_walls/ https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/9oz5sa/wha... and scrolling is OK in Safari but actually pretty laggy compared to old mode. It's definitely not how a modern web site should perform. Testing with Chrome, it was fast in the beginning, but if you scroll up and down for about 15-20 seconds, CPU load goes up and my laptops fan start spinning. So no, I do not believe reddit's new design is "performant" at all. One has to wonder - if Reddit's engineers can't get React right (I'm sure they hire smart people), is it really not a problem with React in the end?