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Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Original post is a much better read than this blogspam

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'm all for reducing the size of webpages with garbage bloat but a little CSS for readability on this site would have gone a long way.

Ps. thanks for sauce

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

I don't agree with him, but if you read the last appendix, this mf wrote half an essay on why he prefers to have basically no styling

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Opera browser of old had a menu with custom styles (a few default plus you could add your own), I think it had one that converted to sans serif, that plus a columns width one would be perfect for this site

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Modern Firefox has "Reader View" that does a similar thing. It's just less customizable... because it's modern Firefox.

Does a disservice to the color-coded table on this article, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It reads a lot better with Firefox's reader mode.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Wow, first time I've used reader mode and it is awesome!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The appendices of that post could use a rewrite. They read weird:

An example we've discussed before, is at a well-known, prestigious, startup that has a very left-leaning employee base, where everyone got rich, on a discussion about the covid stimulus checks, in a slack discussion, a well meaning progressive employee said that it was pointless because people would just use their stimulus checks to buy stock.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

That reads like ChatGPT used reddit comments to flesh out the "article".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is harder to load than pubg a joke or an actual metric?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago

While reviews note that you can run PUBG and other 3D games with decent performance on a Tecno Spark 8C, this doesn't mean that the device is fast enough to read posts on modern text-centric social media platforms or modern text-centric web forums. While 40fps is achievable in PUBG, we can easily see less than 0.4fps when scrolling on these sites.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

OH MY GOD IT LOADS SO MUCH FASTER

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Wealth beyond measure, sera.