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Everything gets faster: computers have 4x the memory and processing power of 10 years ago, browsers are easily 10x faster than they were 10 years ago.

However it appears that the average web page has gotten more than 40x slower. (They're also not really pages, they're "apps".)

People my age or a bit younger (early 20s) say craigslist and hackernews look "hideous" but dammit this is how web pages are supposed to be.

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The big problem that I see, and it applies to any browser, is that every page is loading tons of crap from ad or tracking sites including twitter or facebook. When one of these sites stalls the whole page stalls and it is a chronic problem. As an interim fix I block these domains using my host file pointing to localhost 127.0.0.1 but sometimes that stalls the loading because it doesn't get a reply so it waits for the timeout. I am thinking of setting up a web server on my LAN that replies 404 or 204 to all queries and pointing the worst ad/tracking/social domains there so I can load the content not the dross.

Eh, not totally. For instance, the backoffice UI of Umbraco CMS was rewritten using Angular or something, and now it's just...slow. Unreasonably sluggish. I've seen other work from agencies with no 3rd party dependencies that use all this crazy JS and animations that unless you're on a top line MacBook, it's just sluggish.

I've been using the web for a long time, and while loading was slow, I don't remember UIs feeling so sluggish and unresponsive.

I'm 40 and grew up online with an acoustic modem. There is no fucking way craigslist is the way the web should look. Many sites go to far the other direction but even CL is begging to update their look.

I really hope they don't change, I love the simplistic design and never having to worry about major layout changes is great. The downside, their massive legal team has a larger budget.

Even the small layout changes Reddit has done the past few years has started to drive me away.

> People my age or a bit younger (early 20s) say craigslist and hackernews look "hideous" but dammit this is how web pages are supposed to be.

Not for me. I'm 18, and I think HN is doing great with this webdesign. As well with other sites.

I prefer an application for e.g. Twitter, because the website is way too slow in Firefox. Especially when you follow over 1000 people.

I also really liked http://motherfuckingwebsite.com as an example explaining what is wrong with websites these days.

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