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JavaScript Bloat in 2024

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Re: JavaScript Bloat in 2024

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Post by rldjbpin »

djtango wrote: post #77

I recently came back from a road trip in New Zealand - a lot of their countryside has little to no cell coverage. Combined with roaming (which seems to add an additional layer of slowness) and boy did it suck to try to use a lot of the web. Also if any spotify PMs are here, please review the Offline UX. Offline is pretty much one of the most critical premium features but actually trying to use the app offline really…

i think they just need a more aggressive timeout value to fallback to offline mode. i wonder where their engineering made it too complicated to weigh out these scenarios.

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Post by rldjbpin »

jspdown wrote: post #67

The state of the web is very sad. Most people with a fiber connection don't even notice how slow it became. But when you are still on a 2Mbps connection, this is just plain horrible. I'm in this case, it's terribly painful. Because of this, I can't even consider not using an ad/tracker blocker. Would love to see this test with Ublock origin enabled.

new raspberry pi compete with smartphones of the past, which then have comparable compute than servers of the yester years. moore's law has allowed developers to push more and act fast at the cost of being optimal. many such cases.

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Post by qingcharles »

kcrwfrd_ wrote: post #252
wruza wrote: post #32

10MB, 12MB, … Compare it to people who really care about performance — Pornhub, 1.4 MB Porn was always actual web hi-tech with good engineering, not these joke-level “tech” giants. Can’t remember a single time they’d screw up basic ui/ux, content delivery or common sense.

Looks like us at playboy.com/app have Pornhub beat, with our 1.1 MB (when authenticated—when not, it's 993 kB).

Do you work on it? Can I send you a bug list? :D

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Post by kcrwfrd_ »

qingcharles wrote: post #263
kcrwfrd_ wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like us at playboy.com/app have Pornhub beat, with our 1.1 MB (when authenticated—when not, it's 993 kB).

Do you work on it? Can I send you a bug list? :D

Yes I’m on the engineering team, and I would absolutely love any bug reports. You can check my profile for a way to reach me.

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Post by peter_vukovic »

Looking at the screenshots in the article, the readings are wrong. You are reading the first number as if that's the amount of JS being loaded, but it's the second number (i.e. if it says 6 MB / 3MB, it's 3 MB of JavaScript, out of 6 MB total page size).
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