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by chmod775 1749 days ago
I consider any site that loads 3 seconds to display about 100 bytes worth of unicode text to be utter garbage.

I actually wanted to check the precise loading times before posting this, but would you look at this: https://i.imgur.com/VWOlNHu.png

I rest my case.

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This is genuinely what I see 50% of the time I go to Twitter. Every other big website can keep their site loading >99% of the time. The fact that Twitter can’t is beyond me, and speaks to their incompetence.
Been to Reddit lately? It's gotten better to be sure, but I have to reload or dance around with the back/forward buttons so often simply because I attempted to visit a page.
If you haven't heard of it: old.reddit.com

(I'm not even a Reddit user, but it shows up in search results and I get linked there.)

Same here. I truly do not understand why.

For a while I thought it was some weird blocking from Privacy Badger.

This is old, but I thought another hilarious unforced error was when you could click on a tweet link, and it couldn’t fit the 140 character message in your initial view!

https://imgur.com/972el7u