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Visually, it can be ads taking up large amounts of screen space, making the information that you're looking for a pain to find. In the background, it can be th

Visually, it can be ads taking up large amounts of screen space, making the information that you're looking for a pain to find. In the background, it can be that your browser is making requests to heaps of tracking services and CDNs when loading the page.

codyb 5y ago
Another example are the poorly optimized websites where each tab uses > 100mb of memory and the all pops new tabs open frequently (I’m looking at you JIRA). I’ve basically just stopped browsing the web at this point. It’s nigh on unusable sometimes. I buy recipe books, read the NYTime’s daily newsletter, and browse hackernews. Reddit’s unbearable these days, Twitter’s a bit of a dumpster fire even if it wasn’t bloated (I don’t have social media accounts to curate the experience either), and god forbid you click a link on a news aggregator site like Fark (where the headlines are as misleading as something your Great Aunt shared from some long chain of disinformation anyways), even with ad blockers half the pages are just absolutely bonkers. It’s just not worth it anymore. My print copy of the New Yorker and occasionally some blog posts from here.
- debarshri 5y ago
  You can look at it from a different perspective. I wouldn't mind if an app like figma takes a huge amount of memory. It is comes in my critical professional path. I think if an app falls in your life's critical path, you can look past the memory, cpu usage, bloati-ness etc. I am judging website these days with this kind of yardstick.
  - codyb 5y ago
    Oh yea certainly, but Figma vs JIRA for instance. One, as a professional design suite dealing with image manipulation and simplified component emulation I sort of expect to take up some memory. On the other hand, JIRA displays lists of tickets. It should be a bit snappier probably. There’s gotta be a way to display 200 tickets without it slowing my computer down. It’s certainly not the text that’s the issue, HN displays that many comments fairly easily and without hiccup.
- igetspam 5y ago
  This is one of the reasons I still use RSS. I get the info I want in a simpler form and I can quickly bypass things I'm not interested in.

codyb 5y ago

Another example are the poorly optimized websites where each tab uses > 100mb of memory and the all pops new tabs open frequently (I’m looking at you JIRA). I’ve basically just stopped browsing the web at this point. It’s nigh on unusable sometimes. I buy recipe books, read the NYTime’s daily newsletter, and browse hackernews. Reddit’s unbearable these days, Twitter’s a bit of a dumpster fire even if it wasn’t bloated (I don’t have social media accounts to curate the experience either), and god forbid you click a link on a news aggregator site like Fark (where the headlines are as misleading as something your Great Aunt shared from some long chain of disinformation anyways), even with ad blockers half the pages are just absolutely bonkers. It’s just not worth it anymore. My print copy of the New Yorker and occasionally some blog posts from here.

debarshri 5y ago
You can look at it from a different perspective. I wouldn't mind if an app like figma takes a huge amount of memory. It is comes in my critical professional path. I think if an app falls in your life's critical path, you can look past the memory, cpu usage, bloati-ness etc. I am judging website these days with this kind of yardstick.
- codyb 5y ago
  Oh yea certainly, but Figma vs JIRA for instance. One, as a professional design suite dealing with image manipulation and simplified component emulation I sort of expect to take up some memory. On the other hand, JIRA displays lists of tickets. It should be a bit snappier probably. There’s gotta be a way to display 200 tickets without it slowing my computer down. It’s certainly not the text that’s the issue, HN displays that many comments fairly easily and without hiccup.
igetspam 5y ago
This is one of the reasons I still use RSS. I get the info I want in a simpler form and I can quickly bypass things I'm not interested in.