Sure do love to have 50MB of bullshit poorly optimized Javascript visual effects crammed into my browser on every page. The cute little animations definitely make up for the fact that it takes like 5 seconds every time I load my private messages.

    • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      EmmaGoldman, I offer you my sword in the people's war against stupid fucking slow websites.

    • rtstragedy [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      how do I upvote this 20 times oh my god retvrn to <form>

    • Yurt_Owl
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      4 months ago

      Exactly but some idiots decided it was a good idea to put the language on the serverside as well and made the travesty thats nodejs.

      I quit JS at jquery i refuse to go any further.

    • glans [it/its]
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      4 months ago

      It could have been worse we could have ended up with activevx dhtml etc.

      Flash was cool tho. Let's bring back flash (but not for navigation).