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Reddit runs well IMO if you go to old.reddit.com. The mobile site is borderline useless, presumably intentionally.
by zxexz 1y ago
Reddit runs well IMO if you go to old.reddit.com. The mobile site is borderline useless, presumably intentionally.
- troupo 1y agoAccording to Reddit's "Staff Platform Engineer (Web Platform Team)": --- start quote --- Old Reddit has the advantage of being pretty much static non-interactive content. No video, tiny thumbnails, and barely any JS or styling. Some people like this and some don't, but the end result is a very lean website that performs well out of the box. https://x.com/jimsimon_/status/1841087335414280571 https://x.com/jimsimon_/status/1841087335414280571 Suffice to say, I'm on the frontend perf team and we're acutely aware of these problems https://x.com/jimsimon_/status/1841092341991403974 https://x.com/jimsimon_/status/1841092341991403974 --- end quote --- This was in October 2024. Which is of course a bunch of bullshit when you consider that Reddit's backend returns most data in under 400ms, and it takes Reddit frontend 3+ seconds to render it It could be that they are just incompetent.
- cellularmitosis 1y agoBased on how universally horrible their video playback performance is (even in the iOS app), I can only assume incompetence.