I remember when Reddit (old.reddit.com, the good one) loaded ultra fast and didn’t move around. I could use the back button without noticeable waiting.

And it didn’t freeze up network requests on other tabs on my phone. I STILL don’t know how it does that. I would love a fix. At least at some point I discovered opening a new tab with HN “unblocked” it somehow.

SPAs have their place. It’s not everywhere. Just like microservices. And ORMs. And all the other “magic” that will solve all my problems.