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by gruez 782 days ago
After inputting your information, why is there a countdown before the results are shown? Surely filtering through a few hundred exercises (being generous here) by muscle group doesn't take 5 seconds? Is a delay being artificially added (eg. [1])?

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/why-s...

2 comments

We have a few reasons. But mostly so if we get hit by reddit again, the site doesn't go down from load.
This is always a red flag for me