Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
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Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
#2Yep, this page set my fan running.
Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
#3What are the best Reddit clones these days? I've seen voat but heard it's overrun by the alt right. Hubski seemed interesting but basically seems dead now. Anything else out there? Reddit is really losing its appeal to me with their desktop/mobile site changes. That and I feel the contents been getting less interesting. Like it's just memes or sensational politics everywhere. Maybe I'm just getting old.
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#4Their redesign looks like something you would have seen in the early 2000s. It's (barely) one step above a Geocities site.
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#5The redesign is a single page app, so refreshing it is not a normal workload. I can understand a large amount of pageviews on the old site since each person has to constantly reload everything, but in the redesign a user should only have to load everything just once (or a couple times depending on how many tabs they want to open). Or did they address this and I just missed it?
Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
#6What are the best Reddit clones these days? I've seen voat but heard it's overrun by the alt right. Hubski seemed interesting but basically seems dead now. Anything else out there? Reddit is really losing its appeal to me with their desktop/mobile site changes. That and I feel the contents been getting less interesting. Like it's just memes or sensational politics everywhere. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Hacker News isn't a bad alternative ;)
Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
#7Headline is wrong. 68GJ per month, not GW, which is roughly 26kW.
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#8Given the old site was built off of older libraries/frameworks and the newer site is presumably built using more modern ones, wouldn't this be an indicator of latest tools being heavier and/or more bloated?
Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
#9Headline is wrong. 68GJ per month, not GW, which is roughly 26kW.
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Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
#10Headline is wrong. 68GJ per month, not GW, which is roughly 26kW.
Yes. I was not sure how familiar people are with joules, so as I said in the post:
> (In the headline I used GW because people are more familiar with that, and it's kind of the same.)
Saying "kind of the same" won't please engineers who know what they're talking about and are used to correct units, but for the general public who won't read beyond the headline and (if I'm lucky) the conclusion, I think it's close enough. I am just hoping to get people's attention to the fact that an inefficiently coded redesign of the 6th largest website on the planet has impact.