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What really grinds my gears is websites with news/articles that assume that you have a stable fast internet connection for the whole duration of you reading the
by grishka 1y ago
What really grinds my gears is websites with news/articles that assume that you have a stable fast internet connection for the whole duration of you reading the article, and so load images lazily to "save data".
Except I sometimes read articles on the subway and not all subway tunnels in my city have cell service. Or sometimes I read articles when I eat in some place that's located deep inside an old building with thick brick walls. Public wifi is also not guaranteed to be stable — I stayed in hotels where my room was too far from the AP so the speed was utter shit. Once, I loaded some Medium articles on my phone before boarding a plane, only to discover, after takeoff, that these articles don't make sense without images that didn't load.
Anyway. As a user, for these kinds of static pages, I expect the page to be fully loaded as soon as my browser hides the progress bar. Dear web developers, please do your best to meet this expectation.