Post ACzSHowHAGqjY8ap7Y by BobB@noagendasocial.com
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(DIR) Post #ACzQ4cxEDDUkhtcTg0 by coldacid@noagendasocial.com
2021-11-02T11:57:29Z
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Remember when a mere quarter meg of HTTP traffic for a web page was considered excessive? These days a single page with all its related content could "weigh" 2MB.Fuck Javascript, fuck CSS, put the WWW on a fucking diet.#webdev
(DIR) Post #ACzQW0GNes8uoidEdE by Eyesris@noagendasocial.com
2021-11-02T12:02:26Z
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@coldacid it is what we, as a species, tend to do to things, though, isn’t it? Weigh things down with pretty conveniences. I love tech but agree that the web has gotten waaaay out of hand
(DIR) Post #ACzSHowHAGqjY8ap7Y by BobB@noagendasocial.com
2021-11-02T12:22:18Z
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@coldacid but it's so pretty... the colors, man... the colors.
(DIR) Post #ACzSIzShWfZGTYJjeq by coldacid@noagendasocial.com
2021-11-02T12:22:30Z
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@BobB NO
(DIR) Post #ACzSnwQEsSpo1cvMkC by BobB@noagendasocial.com
2021-11-02T12:28:06Z
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@coldacid I'm just thankful I don't have to listen to that dam modem to see if I connected at 19.2K or 56k... Imagine the new page sizes at the old speeds. A regular page with no ads would be like downloading a 4k movie... that's 4 hrs long.... while streaming music.
(DIR) Post #ACzW3C1BTT0CbLAY4W by GluedToTheScreen@noagendasocial.com
2021-11-02T13:04:28Z
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@coldacid the weight of the page is not so much a problem in my mind (though can def get out of control)...... it's the layout and rendering.Some pages are UNreadable until the very last byte has xfrd.It CAN be done without jank... and with some smart loading.Apparently, that's too hard.
(DIR) Post #ACzWA1Tr3EH7wkpuzI by coldacid@noagendasocial.com
2021-11-02T13:05:41Z
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@GluedToTheScreen that's still a whole bunch of unnecessary bullshit. What's so wrong with plain HTML and some minimal, possibly inline, CSS?
(DIR) Post #ACzXFqWOoDqdeLMpFo by GluedToTheScreen@noagendasocial.com
2021-11-02T13:17:58Z
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@coldacid for most pages? nothing
(DIR) Post #ACzdpL161JpU5a24ci by mhjohnson@noagendasocial.com
2021-11-02T14:31:36Z
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@coldacid Damn. I had that problem about 20 years ago when I moved to CO. I had a laptop with a modem - I could barely get the bank web site to load properly.The numbers are just so much bigger now.
(DIR) Post #AD1ayiBJLulIzdVa6a by timp@x0f.org
2021-11-03T13:08:20Z
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@coldacid Working on it! :DMore specifically, a P2P identity & reputation system.Start at page 8 for the blueprint on what I'm building in Python + Flask (HTML and CSS). Combined with networkx and sqlite3 it should allow for P2P alternatives to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Amazon, Uber, AirBnB, and others (centralized reputation systems).Uses (e2e encrypted) gossip protocol, but everything runs locally, so only limitation are localhost's specs.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SPx5z4dPBo4q2SrIUWrburHkIAx8s7TCa2YJgPvJ214/edit?usp=sharing
(DIR) Post #AD1b54O1hv2bbAUIcq by coldacid@noagendasocial.com
2021-11-03T13:10:17Z
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@timp wtf, what does that have to do with rolling back to simpler web design and lightweight hypertext protocols? This just comes off sounding like more of the problem.
(DIR) Post #AD1bCjlAHUmnwTxz8a by timp@x0f.org
2021-11-03T13:11:38Z
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@coldacid It's super lightweight and you run both server and client. Only data needs to sync, but the interface can be super simple and requires no JS. You could add it, but it doesn't need it. Hence, I figured it might be relevant. No hard feelsies if not.