Comment by ungreased0675
10 hours ago
Empathy and respect for users is what product managers should be doing.
Shipping tens of megabytes per web page is impolite, if not outright disrespectful to users.
10 hours ago
Empathy and respect for users is what product managers should be doing.
Shipping tens of megabytes per web page is impolite, if not outright disrespectful to users.
> Shipping tens of megabytes per web page is impolite, if not outright disrespectful to users.
You're being generous with what I would consider negligence.
"If our users can't afford the bits, we don't need them!"
They don't know what a megabyte is
They feel the slowness of the page load
Not on their iPhones operating over 5G or the corporate WiFi.
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But if they dont, where is the disrespect? They dont know what a megabyte is, they dont feel a slow page load. Where is the disrespect?
React is too heavy weight for a lot of things. But it's ridiculous to call it disrespectful.
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The consequences of MBs of JavaScript can be perceived by anyone in terms of performance and mobile data consumption.
+1.
I have been asked by someone in late 40s why uploading a video takes a lot longer than uploading a photo.
They are not dumb people. They just do not know.
The onus is on the engineers to design for them.
"Does it take longer to upload 10,000 photos than to upload 1 photo?"
If a 40-year-old can not answer that question, then they are in fact - dumb.
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You're not a good and modern engineer who knows his craft if you aren't defaulting to react and tailwind.
And don't dare to contradict me, the fact that MIT-bred leetcode ninjas paid half a million per year can't produce a simple (mostly static) website on that stack it's only because of management that wants to ship the next product. /s