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I love the design and wish a sufficiently large part of the web looked like this... Incidentally, it's a bit like HN.

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Their page was done in 114ms.

Where are the PBs of javascript, the YBs of uncompressed images in 128x320 res?

Clearly they've messed up their CDN and we're missing content.

All that really matters is the entry point size in modern application. I built an admin console for our company in react and it's downloaded and rendered in 220ms. People can make performant SPA's they just choose not to.

> for our company

Is that in a single location? If so, then it's not really impressive. A good website loads fast even when the client is on the other side of the globe.

It goes out to all the cloudfront edge locations so that generally isn't an issue. That being said anything under 300ms is not going to be very noticeable to most people.

Contemporary fancysites might pull up a skeleton in that time, but it'll (often) take multiple seconds for every div to be populated and third-party request to return, juggling the page the whole time.

"Initial request to clickability" is definitely longer than it used to be.

Same, but users think it's ugly and doesn't look "right" or "modern" :/

Which users?

The ones that usually flock to platforms. Course then you have classic reddit and 4chan which had pretty simple designs.

I changed back to old Reddit recently, and hell yeah the site is a lot more usable. The new version often had severe lag when loading comments, but I don’t have this anymore.

Its an unecessary single page abomination. Reddit will always be popular it doesnt need a new design. The best part was that different communities could style their subs.

I also remember when you could register without an email.

Lesson learnt: don't listen to all users, have confidence in some of your decisions...

Haha who do you think makes the final call? Executives (i.e. users) or the IT Department?

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