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> Another example is Wordpress (old) vs. newer, trendier, blogging platforms like Medium and Substack. Wordpress (old) is 17.5x / 10x faster (LCP* / CPU) than M
by aragonite 3y ago
> Another example is Wordpress (old) vs. newer, trendier, blogging platforms like Medium and Substack. Wordpress (old) is 17.5x / 10x faster (LCP* / CPU) than Medium and 5x / 7x faster (LCP* / CPU) faster than Substack on our M3 Max ...
It's a persistent complaint among readers of SlateStarCodex (a blog which made a high-profile move to Substack from an old WordPress site). Substack attributes the sluggishness to the owner's special request to show all comments by default, but the old WordPress blog loads all comments by default and was fine even on older devices.
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/16xsr8w/substack_makes_my_computer_crawl_to_a_halt/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/16xsr8w/sub...
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1b9p55g/anyone_else_finding_the_website_astralcodexten_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1b9p55g/any...