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Reddit threads are also much hotter for writing and have O(thousands) of replies.

• manigandham 7y ago
  Sure Reddit has more write activity but I don't see the number of replies being such a big factor. SO questions have answers, comments, tags, related questions, and many other secondary data to load. Reddit is slow due to poor architecture and a terrible frontend.
  • onlyrealcuzzo 7y ago
    Old Reddit isn't slow. It seems to mostly be the new frontend.
    • shakna 7y ago
      Old Reddit is still slow, but not too bad. Reddit's new software stack is... Atrocious.
      • markus_zhang 7y ago
        I recalled that back in the days when the new Reddit has been rolled out, there were quite a few days that it's difficult to open in mobile browser. Now it's much better.