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by snvzz 2048 days ago
>Wrong: https://smelle.xyz/lynx/catalog.html

Well, you've got usability problems. I actually tried to find the catalog, and could not.

Now, I was able to see it's a link on the top right corner, for some reason. Very unlike what I'd expect, being used to browsing 4chan.

>Every page is available in plain HTML and it even works without client-side JavaScript.

I scrolled the overboard, and stuff suddently appeared while scrolling. I'll have to assume that the page was still loading, slower than I'd expect due to HN hug of death.
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StephenLynx 2048 days ago
In this software context, front-end is the collection of templates and static files, including but not limited to css, js, html. The front-end is detached from the back-end. So how visible the catalog icon/link is is entirely up to the front-end being used.

And how it loads is up to the server and client. It's just a basic html with <img> tags. Starting from a more recent version lazy loading is used on those. So if either the server or client is under performing, you will scroll and the lazy loading won't be able to load faster than you scroll.

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