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My wife has tens of Reddit tabs open on a 5 year old bottom of the line 12” mini MacBook. HN users seem to have a lot of difficulty getting their computers to e

by woah 6y ago

My wife has tens of Reddit tabs open on a 5 year old bottom of the line 12” mini MacBook. HN users seem to have a lot of difficulty getting their computers to evaluate JavaScript normally.

celsoazevedo 6y ago
Pages don't take 1 min to load on my 2019 16" Macbook Pro, but the experience is worse than old.reddit.com. For example, scrolling isn't smooth.
chmod775 6y ago
Here's a video of myself doing a cold load of the new reddit in a private tab: https://streamable.com/3qk7rw https://streamable.com/3qk7rw It takes a good minute before the site even becomes interactive. If I was logged in it would be even worse with it having to load the text editor thingy etc. Don't mind me typing "what?" in the search bar there, I thought the close button would just dismiss the bar at the top. Also note that I had uBlock active which blocked some requests. I don't even want to know how long it would take without it. And for comparison here's old reddit: https://streamable.com/z2ath6 https://streamable.com/z2ath6 Do you seriously want to defend this?
- lukevp 6y ago
  The render looked fast. Perhaps the buttons have click events intercepted by an analytics library, and the async requests to load analytic libraries have to time out first? Can you network tools the load? I’m not saying the new site is fast or anything but it surely doesn’t take a minute to become interactive in most cases. Also are you using any dns based blocking like pi holes? Sometimes this can cause a network request to time out rather than instantly fail.
  - eska 6y ago
    The render looked fast. Gigabit internet, super computers in our pockets.. and people think this is "fast". This is why we can't have nice things..
  - chmod775 6y ago
    New reddit: https://streamable.com/o6wy2x https://streamable.com/o6wy2x Old reddit: https://streamable.com/k99kuo https://streamable.com/k99kuo Looks like the reddit servers are just slow, but the old reddit doesn't need to load so many JS files to become usable. Even if it is only halfway loaded you can already interact with it. Because of the amount of JS files that the new reddit needs, it's not even a contest.

by woah 6y ago

My wife has tens of Reddit tabs open on a 5 year old bottom of the line 12” mini MacBook. HN users seem to have a lot of difficulty getting their computers to evaluate JavaScript normally.

celsoazevedo 6y ago

Pages don't take 1 min to load on my 2019 16" Macbook Pro, but the experience is worse than old.reddit.com. For example, scrolling isn't smooth.

chmod775 6y ago

Here's a video of myself doing a cold load of the new reddit in a private tab: https://streamable.com/3qk7rw https://streamable.com/3qk7rw It takes a good minute before the site even becomes interactive. If I was logged in it would be even worse with it having to load the text editor thingy etc. Don't mind me typing "what?" in the search bar there, I thought the close button would just dismiss the bar at the top. Also note that I had uBlock active which blocked some requests. I don't even want to know how long it would take without it. And for comparison here's old reddit: https://streamable.com/z2ath6 https://streamable.com/z2ath6 Do you seriously want to defend this?

lukevp 6y ago
The render looked fast. Perhaps the buttons have click events intercepted by an analytics library, and the async requests to load analytic libraries have to time out first? Can you network tools the load? I’m not saying the new site is fast or anything but it surely doesn’t take a minute to become interactive in most cases. Also are you using any dns based blocking like pi holes? Sometimes this can cause a network request to time out rather than instantly fail.
- eska 6y ago
  The render looked fast. Gigabit internet, super computers in our pockets.. and people think this is "fast". This is why we can't have nice things..
- chmod775 6y ago
  New reddit: https://streamable.com/o6wy2x https://streamable.com/o6wy2x Old reddit: https://streamable.com/k99kuo https://streamable.com/k99kuo Looks like the reddit servers are just slow, but the old reddit doesn't need to load so many JS files to become usable. Even if it is only halfway loaded you can already interact with it. Because of the amount of JS files that the new reddit needs, it's not even a contest.