I don't know where Web2.0 has gone wrong in recent years, but I thought a key ethos was usability. I don't read techcrunch anymore because pageloads on my netb

I don't know where Web2.0 has gone wrong in recent years, but I thought a key ethos was usability. I don't read techcrunch anymore because pageloads on my netbook have hit 20 seconds before I can scroll the page. Hacker news IIRC is still less than 250ms. Facebook is about 2 seconds till usability, but is still loading shit in the background, which hits it on par with MSN and Yahoo. I don't get why a tech site like techcrunch would think it's acceptable to have such an absurdly long load time. Facebook lost me when page loads for every page took too long and they were only seconds. 1/3 of a minute back when I was learning to make my own websites was considered death, you wouldn't expect anyone to sit through the load.