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Note that most of the open source / hobbyist web actually works properly. I don't think the answer is primarily that it's a matter of money - I think most larg

by throwaway22032 5y ago

Note that most of the open source / hobbyist web actually works properly. I don't think the answer is primarily that it's a matter of money - I think most large companies end up with "web design by committee". If Zuckerberg redesigned the entire Facebook homepage from top to bottom it'd probably be a hell of a lot faster than it is now. But instead it's the product of an enormous corporate structure and there is no-one to step in and say "guys, this is shit, start again and let's do it properly, no you can't have your 1 meg tracker in there, not even one of them, write a barebones one". One man or small team software projects in general are better for this reason as well, with a massive team over time cruft accumulates.

jqpabc123 5y ago
... with a massive team over time cruft accumulates. A massive team only occurs with a large corporation attempting to monetize and wring every last dime out of the product. So in other words --- greed.
escapedmoose 5y ago
>One man or small team software projects in general are better for this reason as well I think these fall on both sides of the bell curve. One person can design something clean and beautiful, and one person can also be a one-man mess of bad decisions. I've picked up after both.
- wusspuss 5y ago
  One man would hardly ever design something as abhorrent as twitter or facebook frontend - he just wouldn't have the time
wusspuss 5y ago
>"guys, this is shit, start again and let's do it properly, no you can't have your 1 meg tracker in there, not even one of them, write a barebones one". Is it even really about trackers? Even with adblocker on purging 50% of the page, these things are still slow.