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People who are still on dialup modems or very slow wireless ISPs with flaky connections. High Speed Internet is not universal even today, despite what web deve
by jandrese 3y ago
People who are still on dialup modems or very slow wireless ISPs with flaky connections. High Speed Internet is not universal even today, despite what web developers seem to think. Ever try to surf raw Facebook on a 128kbps wireless link? It's not fun. Cloud services are a joke for these people.
Hacker News is one of the last holdouts in the low bandwidth friendly website game.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoA decade ago, I remember buying 500MB or 1GB of mobile internet credit and burning through that in an evening just reading news and stuff. Today, with uBlock Origin and NoScript, I can buy the same amount of mobile internet and it lasts me quite a while. I therefore concluded that, while website bloat does exist, what really consumes bandwidth is advertising, and that can be avoided. Moreover, a decade ago lazy loading of images was not common, but now the respective CSS tag exists, is supported by browsers, and widely implemented by CMSs like Wordpress.
- anthk 3y agoFor news I just head to gopher://magical.fish (the news section) and gopher://gopherddit.com under Lynx and the data usage gets down fast.