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Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds (www.livescience.com)
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[–] 64 points 1 year ago (7 children)

And yet, developers still build sites that load 500kb of JS just to display 5kb of text.

We don’t need faster speeds, we need more reasonable and thoughtful site design. Most sites are ridiculously overengineered, and don’t need a lot of what has been stuffed into them.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But then how will you be able to mine every single possible data point on every single visitor so that you can maximize profits with advertisors?! Huh?! /s

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Nah its not even always about profit, sometimes its just pure sloppy showoff like a page where I am supposed to sign up should not be promoting the company, if Ive already got onto that page why do I need to scroll all the way down to the join/sign up button!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    IME it is more devs and managers going wild on the “golly gee wiz” features that are meant to dazzle site visitors, rather than on actual content (or to obscure a lack of actual material content).

    Sure, what you mentioned is a problem, and a serious one at that. But your issue arises more from marketers and bean counters and C-Suite execs than devs and managers.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    They are more under engineered because of cost cutting and over designed by management because of ignorance and hubris. Developer: “oh yeah this feature will take me a week to implement another week to make it performant and another week to pass QA” Manager: “Oh hell no just slap on this library into the project that I saw getting recommended on LonkedOn”

    Here is a lightning fast website that gets the proper amount of engineering time because the goals of management and that of the development team align perfectly.

    https://www.mcmaster.com/

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