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Well their JavaScript "new" site sucks so horribly that it even brings my heavy gaming PC to its knees. Clearly they have no clue what they're doing (probably
by GekkePrutser 5y ago
Well their JavaScript "new" site sucks so horribly that it even brings my heavy gaming PC to its knees.
Clearly they have no clue what they're doing (probably at management level, even bad devs can do better than this) or they have a ton of legacy code they're trying to write around.
But even the old one had its issues. Deep threads with thousands of posts would often crash when you clicked the "read more" to go deeper and instead redirected to the top. So it could be that's where it's at. I assume a complete code review / partial rewrite would be very hard to justify at Reddit's scale.
I'd use the old one but I find it so clunky. Even though it has the same density of hacker news it lacks all its grace.
- ent101 5y agoThere are many frontend issues for sure. But I just don't understand why so many HTTP requests to the site fail. E.g. pages are simply blank about 20% of the time.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoAha that's not really what I'm seeing on my side. I very often get the error page with the "funny" picture but not 20% for sure. Maybe it's user dependent or only affects some subs?
- ent101 5y agoA hard refresh for me is a roll of dice, I usually expect it to fail.
- aprdm 5y agoYes it’s horrible and when you look at the network tools there’s a crazy amount of requests flying around too
- sprkwd 5y agoDon’t even ask about the app which take 20+ Seconds to load in content.
- didntknowya 5y agotheir website is terrible. even if i stumble across a post in my desktop that i want to read ill try search for it on my phone instead because their site works better on (third party) mobile apps.