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Comment by dchuk | Hacker News Reader

Not only is the content great on that site, the performance of it is absolutely spectacular. It's amazing how much people will jump to new fangled solutions when this site is a great example of what a well tuned Rails app can pull off from a UX perspective.

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It's cool that it's open-sourced, but I've never been impressed with the content. Even when an article is about a topic I'm interested in, it's hard to get past the Buzzfeed-style "How do you do, fellow kids?" tone.

I think the content is getting better, and will continue to improve with time. It makes sense that it starts out geared towards young/new developers.

Yeah, I kinda feel the same way about the content. It's like 'coding, not programming', 'what was your biggest achievement today? Mine was no conflicts ;)' and other silly wholesome comments. But yeah, the performance of the site is phenomenal.

I feel like all the popular posts are from guys who tuck their collared shirts into their jeans.

It's not about tuning, the site just preloads content when you mouseover links, using a background service worker. That's pretty "new fangled" compared to most sites.

It's a bit of column A, a bit of column B. Mouse context is not always available. Tuning + preloading.

Maybe it's just me, but the homepage takes 2.74 seconds to load. I wouldn't exactly call that spectacular.

> the performance of it is absolutely spectacular

Hmm you're not wrong. Re the other comments here about preloading from mouse over events, it's very snappy on mobile too, so there's something else going on as well.

Very gratifying to see it's using Preact, since I've just chosen that for a project over React, largely due to smaller bundle sizes. Another post on HN today about Amp makes me feel it's the 90s all over again, with people shaving kB off here and there - and that's no bad thing!

well tuned Rails app

...with some JS and Preact.

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