[jwells89]

It’s illuminating to try to use a late-era Core 2 Duo (or even Core 2 Quad) machine for all web browsing for a day. Given a cheap SSD upgrade, these systems can handle Windows 10 or a modern Linux distro perfectly well, but the web can bring them to their knees pretty easily. You quickly learn which sites to avoid, but even nominally “good” sites are still sluggish.

[sfryxell]

well. The feedback helps. The site should be rocket fast for everyone again.

https://github.com/scott-fryxell/scott-fryxell.github.io/com...

[jauntywundrkind]

My gods what a bunch of sabotaging sissys. Runs fine on my machine! The site I linked is the specs for the very low powered (<10w tops) 2016 cpu I use, and the site causes not a ruffle. How it perturbs or rocks your world I do not know, but that's a you problem. It certainly didn't quiver my ancient system.

Y'all are astroturfing for offense! Get over yourselves! Quit faking your issues! If this low power, crap, 8 year old cpu is fine y'all should be too!

Y'all are desperate to appear unhappy & distressed, and it's either in genuine shilling against acceptance for bullshit (anti-)reasons (you despise the web) or extremely oversensitive (really? Your fans are running? Still? Open devtools profiling: what is the offender here?!?! Easy to find out!). Get the heck over yourselves or stop being a sell out patsy. Get real. I have far shittier hardware (what is linked) & it's fine. Utterly unnoticeable. The sir doth protest too much.

The protests against the web have not advanced or shown further signs of intelligence one iota. No matter what is possible, no matter what the platform can do, no matter how capable things are: there is a destructive campaign that believes only in destruction of the web, & this sort of low grade complaining is the tip of the spear, decoupled from truth, that wants to sink it's relentless pitiful steel spear of doubt through the armor of possibility and potential into the organ of belief and blood. Creating the image of any site being slow or bad is enough to sink the whole enterprise for these antagonists, can ward off any cause for belief: this is a fallow folk. Do not take.

Possibility poisoned by agendas. There is such a campaign of shallow hate.

[jwells89]

I don’t dislike the web. Quite the opposite, in fact. It’s got serious problems that tend to get swept under the rug and ignored as the industry churns away though, and those problems aren’t going to be fixed if nobody is talking about them. These aren’t protests against the web, but rather against the direction its development has taken in the past decade and change (one might note that this expression of dissatisfaction was much more rare in say 2007).

The web is great, but it’s not (yet) a panacea and it can’t become one without pressure to improve.