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Wow, this website is cool and makes for a fun and very interesting (and telling) comparison between old reddit and the redesign:

https://webtest.app/?url=https://www.reddit.com

vs.

https://webtest.app/?url=https://old.reddit.com

An order of magnitude increase in page size and energy consumed, and it takes 5 times as long to load, with 5 times the ad requests.

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Given the current environmental state, there should be a big push to shame these websites for wasting energy. Perhaps if this happened on a larger scale we'd see better designs produced that don't rely on highly wasteful and inefficient virtual machines that are mistook for web browsers.

Good idea. Where do we start this shaming? I don't have the resources.

I knew that the new reddit site was terrible (and keeps getting worse), but just under 15mb for a website is insane.

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