seems to conflate really legitimate stuff with personal UI preferences. love his writing always.
I’m building a personal website right now and I want to use a static site generator to handle rendering markdown to html and shoving microformats2 markup into pages. Easy stuff. I would like to maintain a Neocities-style aesthetic and I am having to fight the default theme to make it less slick/professional looking (despite light page loads). So I don’t think it’s quite necessary to align that Paypal UI (that I find pretty painful-looking) or Minecraft-rough-edges with the virtues of efficiency and accessibility. Light and simple CSS can create slick whitespace-heavy designs that he also won’t like but that are just as efficient and easy to copy and modify. (This is sort of acknowledged around the Taft Test but then elided in his final conclusions)
i remember stumbling upon this article a couple of years ago, suffice to say, things have only gotten worse since then…
New reddit 20 mb
yeah, just wow!!
i think they’re intentionally making reddit on desktop less pleasant to use to try to transition everyone to their shitty app on mobile, so that they can finally kill 3rd-party clients…
Didnt think about that, maybe they are doing that.
It’s not even a maybe at this point. They are actively trying to passively destroy 3rd party apps. Notice how when they release “cool” new features like chat, live video, polls, and probably others idk they never release the apis. They know that if they just stopped with the main api they would get insane backlash so instead they leave the people currently using 3rd party apps to use them with a worse experience and instead focus on getting all the newcomers to use the main app with all the features. I’ve noticed a higher number of screenshots from the reddit app compared to a couple years ago and in like 5 years there will probably be a much smaller number of 3rd party apps. This may just be some conspiracy bullshit and I hope it is but it’s reddit soo…
I love this article, especially using the text size of crime and punishment as a metric.
The biggest thing I added here recently, was an emoji picker. Outside of that, our biggest deps are rxjs, markdown-it, and moment.
Lemmy is at
295kBgzipped right now.Maybe we could load the empji picker and other big libraries on demand when they are actually used? That should speed up the initial load.
Amen! Let it stay that way :)
I love how he is measuring articles warning about page bloat’s page size over time as opposed to regular articles :'D
