I hate when a website tries to do fancy CSS(?)/React(?) animations and it just stutters and slows down my browser and adds a bunch of input lag. like don’t even bother getting fancy if you can’t do it well - I would really prefer a non-fancy experience to a framey stuttery mess

honestly I think bare-bones functional UIs are massively underrated. I know it gives a bad first impression to people who don’t know better but that’s still preferable to getting fancier than you know how to handle and creating a ton of problems for yourself

this post brought to you by “my CPU is 13 years old and it should not be this hard to browse a list of posts on LessWrong”

they should invent a way to simulate running a webpage on an old shitty CPU like mine so web devs can notice when stuff runs badly and fix it

@kasdeya Chrome/Edge have something for this, although I can't be sure how effective it is

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-guide-chromium/performance/#simulate-a-mobile-cpu

@kasdeya I wish the internet was still simple enough that everything could be viewed in w3m, or at least that websites have a "simple view that still works" version that loads fast and does not track you