I was thinking about this the other day in reference to how slow reddit is compared to HN even though they are essentially achieving the same function. I get th

I was thinking about this the other day in reference to how slow reddit is compared to HN even though they are essentially achieving the same function. I get that there are images, video & volume of posts/users served difference but I'd bet if they made just a pain text version of it it would be order of magnitude faster and browsable.