I was also really surprised at how much slower the new site performed when it dropped 2 years ago or whenever it was. I'm sure using react caused some of the pe

I was also really surprised at how much slower the new site performed when it dropped 2 years ago or whenever it was. I'm sure using react caused some of the performance hit, but I also suspect the flexibility of advertising on the new platform also caused some of the issues. Either way, I still access reddit via old.reddit.com and it's snappy as ever.