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Bsky highlights the contradiction at the heart of React's bezzle: in order to support RN (supporting app store gatekeepers), it creates a model that makes the (open, interoperable, free) web site shite to use...pushing people to apps. This is not pro-open-web.

15/11/24, 9:25 am1 repost8 likes

For the avoidance of doubt, that 2(.4)MB of JS is 2.4MB *compressed*. Unzipped it's more than 7MB. There are smaller dictionaries.

João

@jpsc.dev

bsky.app/profile/jpsc... Yep, it's kinda sad. I hope they can improve when they have the capacity

João@jpsc.dev

Fonts are blocking the render and they take 3x 500kb, also the main 2 js bundle are ~2mb and takes ~4.8sec just for the server response (empty cache)

"the capacity"? Nolan Lawson singlehandedly built Pinafore for Mastodon. @mary.my.id singlehandedly built Skeetdeck. It's not about resources, it's about priorities.

João

@jpsc.dev

I know, just trying to give the team a break while their priority is scaling up. I've seen you talk multiple times I know that you know how things get to this state, but I still want to believe people will do better given the opportunity.

OMFG, the fonts are served *as TTF files*!!!!! Christ on a cracker.

webpagetest.orgwebpagetest.org

This is what failure to web good looks like. I'm sure you could make a better React solution, but this is just an embarrassment compared to Pinafore or Elk...and for what? To prop up app stores? www.webpagetest.org/video/compar...

Perry Govier

@perrygovier.com

It’s a team of 20 people. Native apps, web, backend, 20 people. Yeah, there is room for improvement, but this is not the way to deliver that message.

Zetaphor

@zetaphor.com

Debbie Downwardly Mobile, World's Oldest Millennial

Not all of whom are engineers. Also you forgot the protocol. It's self evident that the people trying to dunk here don't have the background to truly understand what the team has built with so few resources If you think you can do the same or better we would all love to see it, competition is good!

@braindouche.bsky.social