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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That lot of websites these days loads tons of JS, even when they should just be multi-page static websites.

Edit: I have recently compared my website (built with astro), and it weights 15 times less than other similar sites. And when you check why, it turns out that they are loading jQuery, React, unoptimized images and stuff like that, for simple website, that don't even use any interactive stuff, except menus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's everywhere, and for no good reason. I've yet to find a Lemmy instance that will work without JavaScript enabled.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There is a good reason for it, and that's saving money. Computation on the user's device is free, doing it on the server/cloud costs money.

Serving static files that's cached in the browser, and providing a thin API layer is cheaper to host and might be worth it on the long run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd support a JS free front end. Thankfully it wouldn't even be hard to do, and you could even use a desktop client so you don't even need anything but the API

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mlmym is server rendered I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I feel like we should try and move some of the most commonly used stuff into the browser engine so we don't have to run random code