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I think a lot of the issues stem from focusing on the mobile app, and not prioritizing performance of the web app (or possibly, deprioritizing the web app and expecting users to migrate to the mobile app).

I.E. I'd guess it's a business focus issue, not specifically the tech stack used.

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reddit has been intentionally making the web experience horrible with multiple popups and hiding comment threads, pushing users to use the app and log in. so it makes sense that overall performance is also bad. for a better experience use the app! ugh

In addition to that, they also seems to be testing a version which completely disables access to some content to users which are not logged in - it simply says that you can only view it in the app.

Logging in does allow you to view it on the web, but that's still a pretty horrible thing to do!

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