JavaScript Bloat in 2024

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Hacker News Search

Remember The Website Obesity Crisis [1] article from 2015, since then [2] things only got worse, and it is been almost 10 years already (at the end of 2024). Is it foolish to say that in 10 more years you wont be able to navigate the web on a circa 2015 PC ? If nothing changes seems like it. My old macbook from 2013 with latest Firefox is already can not handle loading https://civitai.com web page with 23.98 MB of JavaScript, it is just hangs for half a minute while trying to render this disaster of web frontend. [1] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=website%20obesity%20crisis&sort=byPopularity&type=story.

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Civitai

Remember The Website Obesity Crisis [1] article from 2015, since then [2] things only got worse, and it is been almost 10 years already (at the end of 2024). Is it foolish to say that in 10 more years you wont be able to navigate the web on a circa 2015 PC ? If nothing changes seems like it. My old macbook from 2013 with latest Firefox is already can not handle loading https://civitai.com web page with 23.98 MB of JavaScript, it is just hangs for half a minute while trying to render this disaster of web frontend. [1] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=website%20obesity%20crisis&sort=byPopularity&type=story.

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