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We can wish that crappy websites didn’t get more bloated every year, but as long as they still load fast enough most people don’t know the difference or care. E
by burlesona 4y ago
We can wish that crappy websites didn’t get more bloated every year, but as long as they still load fast enough most people don’t know the difference or care. Everything has an opportunity cost, so once things are good enough the resources that could be spent optimizing will be spent elsewhere instead, and bloat that can be added to solve other business goals will be added.
It’s understandable to get frustrated by this, but at some point you realize it’s pointless.
This is true in many, many facets of life. Household possessions tend to expand to fill the available square footage. Cities sprawl haphazardly until commute times become unbearable. Irrigation expands until the rivers are depleted. Life expands to the limit, always.
- LAC-Tech 4y agoThat would only be true if every one of your customers had fast, loss free, reliable internet 100% of the time they want to access a website. Even in a modern city this is rarely the case. So I'm afraid the real answer is that webdev is just not mature yet.
- jacobjr23 4y agoBusinesses don't need to provide a perfect experience to every one of their customers. If they did, they would. Like previously said, businesses are good at satisfying customer needs as dictated by their customers' wallets.
- dazc 4y agoIronically, the worst website I have to regularly navigate is my ISP's.
- deburo 4y agoI blame the devs before I blame the platform. Relational databases are mature enough and yet devs still find ways to create queries that time out with only a few thousand rows in their tables.