> I'm sorry but 2 seconds to load a page with primarily text is not something you should brag about. Reddit's homepage is primarily video and photos. The home

> I'm sorry but 2 seconds to load a page with primarily text is not something you should brag about. Reddit's homepage is primarily video and photos. The homepage contents are obscenely dynamic, I have no doubt they use tons of caches for everything, but the homepage is not simple at all. Since I am logged in, there is a profile lookup, as well as looking up to see if I have an notifications. There is the fetching of stories + metadata from my personal feed, which involves custom prioritization. I doubt any of that can be trivially cached. Reddit is not some simple static text website. Hacker news doesn't render a different page for every visitor, Reddit does. Heck HN saves on CPU by not even telling me if there are replies to my posts!