what is web bloat?
― sarahell, Friday, 2 December 2022 06:00 (one year ago) link
there's a hidden kind of web bloat where a site will load tons of frameworks and libraries to show simple things.here's a popular article that explains it (ironically the live version is so lean, it won't bother to load working images)https://web.archive.org/web/20190324214252/https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
but there's also a loud and proud web bloat where visually assaulting you on all sides is the point:https://www.lingscars.com/funny enough, this monstrosity is probably less bloated underneath than most "minimalist" e-commerce sites, though they spent a few bytes for a joke you can only see if you view source.
basically ilxor.com is the opposite of web-bloat.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 3 December 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
the ultimate bloat is advertising, some news page thats got javascript coming in from ten different places none of which care about size number of requests etc
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 December 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
Fandom.com is almost unusable
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 6 February 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link
https://libredirect.github.io/
extension that auto-redirects the browser to de-bloated frontends for YT, twitter, fandom, etc.
it's mostly intended for privacy but imo it really excels at making the replaced sites tolerable
― chihuahuau, Monday, 6 February 2023 21:26 (one year ago) link
cool!
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
thought this was a thread for some new indie album
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
mayb eit is...
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link