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Comment by benbristow | Hacker News Reader

Looks nice. Really fast webapp too.

Congrats team! Looking forward to tracking this project's development.

You're not kidding. This webapp is so fast (after the initial load) that I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if the Reddit mobile website intentionally adds sleeps/delays as some have jokingly suspected in the past. On this site, I can actually scroll through posts or collapse comment threads without wondering if my touch input and/or browser are frozen.

New Reddit doesn't need sleep/delays, it's already slow as molasses heh.

If not for old.reddit.com, my time on Reddit would've gone way down :/

My understanding was that s/he was referring to the new UI. Actually Reddit makes it hard to be on the old interface, I have to use browser extension to completely avoid the new UI.

There's a setting in preferences - as long as you're logged in, www.reddit.com links will still load the old design.

Logged out though, yeah, I manually replace "www" with "old" whenever I open a link...

Reddit is unavoidable these days since everyone's moved there and there's a lot of good content :/

I wish that was the only problem with the new Reddit ... it frequently crashes my browser. No other website does this.

This sounds like a browser bug tbh.

Not my experience... Touching “Communities” on my iPhone takes a while to load.

Edit: to add, while touching the buttons for the different sections, it seems sometimes my touches are not registering, requiring me to try again.

A brand new site doesn't have many features yet. The more features you add the slower it'll get.

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