Alex RussellJul 8, 2023

It is *intense* just how badly the JS/React brainworms have infected the frontend community.

Every single NYT story page has *both* a 437KiB (1.5MiB unzipped) *and* a 474KiB (1.7MiB) JS file, to display ~50K of text. It isn't ad bloat. It isn't tracking. It's this sort of bunk:

Show threadAlex RussellJul 8, 2023
An image map would be faster.
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@slightlyoff My fucking god making their website with Unity3D would lead to performance improvement
Jul 8, 2023 at 12:24pmWeb