My Browser Builds (Part 5)

[nicolaasjan]

12 hours ago, j7n said:

Something happened to Reddit literally just now. Loading has become slow on an old PC, it fetches about 800 requests and 30 MB to display 100 subscriptions. This is not a problem specifically with New Moon, as Opera 12 is also affected, but I have no other place to discuss old PC and old browser behavior. Seems like they have modernized "Old" reddit.

https://i.imgur.com/9xL6uJh.png

That's not `old.reddit.com` in the address bar. 🤔

I have the user script Reddit Old Redirect and the pages load quite fast here (but somehow I have not so many requests):

(max download speed here ~10MB/s 🙁)

[j7n]

I had selected to not use New Reddit in preferences. Apparently, now adding "old" to the address makes it faster again. Previously there was no difference, and I could get to the old reddit by following someone elses link without old. I see in the network log that it repeatedly loads the same things. And the scripts get processed again and again, causing the whole loading take about 1 minute.

https://i.imgur.com/WUe9nev.png

Scrolled down a bit, the same:

https://i.imgur.com/cyP79MP.png

I have talked to a couple websites in the outcome was just them saying to use modern stuff, so it is not really productive.

10 MB/s is the speed of fast ethernet, why the sad face, lol. The limitation as always is the load on the CPU from processing every piece,