[wolco]

I hope my mailed letter will reach hn soon so I can reply.

My work has powered some of the sites you've visited over the last 5 years. I hope you've enjoyed the experience.

Still doesn't make a spa worthly of ranking well in general.. unless it's really a useful app with actual functionality instead of a shallow one page website.

Reply with some sites you made that you feel should rank well. Let's see how they hold up.

[buzzerbetrayed]

You can’t just say something completely false, wait until someone corrects you, and then go off about how you’ve made websites that they’ve used in the last 5 years so you know more than them.

That’s called appeal to authority. It’s a logical fallacy. Your statement was false, regardless of how “authoritative” you are on the subject. If you meant something else by your statement, you should have expressed it better.

[stackola]

No one is saying the should get a boost in ranking or rank well just by being an SPA. You're the one suggesting they should be penalized just for the fact they use client side rendering.

You seem to suggest that a SPA can only consist of a single `view`, when in fact there's often no discernible difference apart from the underlying architecture. Maybe we need a new word, so people stop getting confused. SPA has nothing to do with the amount of content or views a website has.

It's just as simple to create a shallow, useless website in PHP as it is in React.