Help my website is too small
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Help my website is too small
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#2This is ridiculous. Old schoolers like me were taught to minimise the size of whatever you serve on a site, as much as possible, when learning web design and web programming. If you didn't use any JPEG and GIF optimisers, or HTML and Javascript you were berated (this was before Flash). You were taught about browser caching and its importance. Most WYSIWYG applications e.g. Macromedia (now Adobe) Dreamweaver had a feature where you set an internet connection speed and it would tell you how much time each web page you created would take to load on such a connection. It would even tell you what element in a page would take the longest to load.
Today's "10 MB minimum" videos on the background web pages (half of it made up of ads) is just so irritating, and disappointing.
One of my friend works at Microsoft / LinkedIn, and when he asked me (7+ year ago) how the LinkedIn Mobile app could be improved, I advised him to reduce its size and make it as responsive as possible over the slowest mobile connection in India. And the indian team did do that and my friend later told me that the US office noted their work and commendedthem for it. (There are 100 million Indians on LinkedIn - https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-th... ).
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#3Sir, you owe me a new keyboard... you made me snort-coff my coffee onto it.
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#4Easy fix: add a gajilion tracking scripts
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#5I like to complain about bloated websites as much as the next guy, but isn’t one of the curses of the modern web precisely that the main response often doesn’t contain more than some linked scripts and is thus very small? How many of these emails do they send?
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#6I can imagine this job website implemented this criterion to guard against some kind of abuse but I cannot imagine what that abuse might look like or how this prevents it.
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#7I can imagine this job website implemented this criterion to guard against some kind of abuse but I cannot imagine what that abuse might look like or how this prevents it.
A lot of people feel the need to add restrictions for the sake of restrictions. A whole lot of "security" products work the same way, too. They either do that to pretend to others that they are doing something or to pretend to themselves that they are somehow more important because they exert control.
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#8This made my day. Thank you!
I’m assuming that they implemented this for some well-intentioned reason like attempting to automatically prevent someone from halfassing it with inadequate information or content, but it was the wrong way to do it, and hopefully this calls them out on it.
A propose a toast to all of those that make life better by keeping things short and/or minimized. They are giving us our life and our bandwidth back.
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#9I can imagine this job website implemented this criterion to guard against some kind of abuse but I cannot imagine what that abuse might look like or how this prevents it.
A lot of people feel the need to add restrictions for the sake of restrictions. A whole lot of "security" products work the same way, too. They either do that to pretend to others that they are doing something or to pretend to themselves that they are somehow more important because they exert control.
I suspect this could be more a case of an open ticket about apparent redirect link spam getting fixed by a junior who thought this solution was simple and clever. The junior was even smart enough to write the fix as a nightly cron job, avoiding having to integrate it in an existing large codebase.
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#10A client once told me his website loads too fast and the branded spinner didn't show long enough. I "fixed" it by making the website load slower.