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Why does this blog have a loading bar that gets stuck around 99% for me? Every request has loaded and is cached by my browser, yet it hangs at 99% artificially

• junon 6y ago
  It's this new frontend craze of putting artificial loading bars as a placebo effect. Github does it, for example. The site is just really slow, and the status bars are rarely, if ever, hooked up to the actual loading metrics.
• tyingq 6y ago
  I don't know why it does that, but I looked at it and it's using something called "Pace Progress Bar". Source for it: https://github.com/CodeByZach/pace https://github.com/CodeByZach/pace
• lrossi 6y ago
  If you do client side “rendering” (which means that you get page content from the server in json format, and generate the html from javascript), you have to show a placeholder until the webpage content gets generated. Otherwise the user sees an incomplete page with elements jumping around for a fraction of a second on load. But the placeholder might get stuck if anything goes wrong. Personally, I hate it. Better to use static html for blog content.
• bsdubernerd 6y ago
  That's all I see as well. Fortunately the direct CVE link works.