As a counter point: were I to write a hacker news clone it would be an SPA. You wouldn’t know from using it, because I’d break it down into routes using e.g. r

As a counter point: were I to write a hacker news clone it would be an SPA. You wouldn’t know from using it, because I’d break it down into routes using e.g. react router (but that’s really just for organizational reasons) and it’s simple HTML and plain text so there’s really no need to have loading screens. An SPA doesn’t have to be bloated and show loading screens and the aforementioned grey boxes. I’ll also add that Reddit’s problem doesn’t stem from being an SPA, it still loads state, etc from url navigation just as much as it keeps the state as you browse (depending on where you go on the site.) Reddit’s problems stem from (for some reason I can’t fathom) being the worst UI implementation I’ve had the displeasure of using recently and constantly adding features (before bugs from the last round of useless features are fixed) in an effort to converge towards some kind of weird Facebook clone.