Comment by rockwotj
2 days ago
you also get a very slimmed down interface that is usually way faster to load. one of the reasons I love HN is that it is super snappy to load and isn’t riddled with dependencies that take forever to load and display. Snappy UIs are always a breath of fresh air.
> Snappy UIs are always a breath of fresh air.
UIs used to be more responsive on slower hardware, if they took longer then the human reaction time, it was considered unacceptable.
Somewhere along the line we gave up and instead spend our time making skeleton loading animations as enticing as possible to try and stop the user from leaving rather then speeding things up.