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by Shared404 1608 days ago
Side note on web design: uBlock blocked nothing. Usually when a page that looks like this comes up, I notice 10's to 100's of blocked requests.

On top of that, I disabled JS out of curiosity, and the site worked completely fine, sans expected failures (the only thing that stopped working was the little videos by the libraries)!

I think this is the first site with this level of "Design" (Which I usually hate, but they did a really good job of here here) where both of these things are true.

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Agree. I'm generally a fan of the more simplistic websites (sometimes that means them not looking modern at all), but they did a fantastic job here.
Great observation. I had opened it on my old mobile browser and it loaded super fast too!
I feel kinda compelled to run a torture test now.

Just tried w3m on desktop and it was decent, anyone have IE sitting around?

I have a celeron pc with xp nearby!
A bit late, but did you test it and if so how well did it work?

Just tested with WebPositive on Haiku on a T61, and it did in fact load - though it took a long time.

DankPods, is that you?