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Hitting the “Reply” button on HN takes you to a new page with a textbox, taking over 500ms and a complete page reload. On some websites, that amount of latency
by MatthiasPortzel 3y ago
Hitting the “Reply” button on HN takes you to a new page with a textbox, taking over 500ms and a complete page reload. On some websites, that amount of latency is acceptable. But that could be instantaneous.
- leecb 3y ago> taking over 500ms and a complete page reload For me this is 45ms to transfer the 2 kB (compressed) of HTML; the whole process takes under 60ms total, which is pretty darn close to "instantaneous" for the "complete page reload." EDIT: I'm in Texas, so most of this time is probably just round trip time to the west coast.
- icedchai 3y agoWhere are you located? It's about 120 ms here (wifi off of gigabit fiber, east coast US.) Based on ping time, over 60% of that time is network latency to the west coast. Actual "processing" would be in the 50 ms range which is super fast.
- MatthiasPortzel 3y agoIt may be <100ms, but that completely misses my point. My point is that it could be <1ms, and no reload, if the Reply box was added in JavaScript to the previous page.
- tedunangst 3y agoGives you more time to think about your reply. The fact that people on other sites comment in less than 500ms could be considered a negative.