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My motivation is to interact with the content of the website. Form is good only while it improves function. For example, simple css improves my ability to read
by 6keZbCECT2uB 4y ago
My motivation is to interact with the content of the website. Form is good only while it improves function. For example, simple css improves my ability to read a website over the default rendering of .txt (often seen in websites about K). However, the new reddit design isn't worth it for me because the improved form decreases the function. With lazy loading, controls that are more difficult to interact with, higher footprint, higher idle cost, etc., it's a less pleasant reading experience.
Beyond the experience of a loaded site, its ability to emphasize the text and to not interfere with the current visual field / search (badly implemented lazy loading for example), size alone impacts experience on bad internet connections. I use HN as a test website to see if the internet works over something like msn because it is so lightweight. I measured around 8KB transferred after caching on the home page. (>3000KB from MSN with an idle transfer of 7KB every couple of seconds.)