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0 pointshskaw7y ago0 comments

This is unrelated to the article. Many webpages, like HN, use JS but are not SPAs.

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adtac7y ago· 2 in thread

I think old.reddit.com's interface is more user-friendly than HN's. Why should I leave the page to write a comment? Avoiding JS just for the sake of avoiding is just blind fanaticism under the pretense of being faster and more lightweight.

(The new reddit redesign is a resource hogging abomination riddled with needless SPA bullshit, but the old reddit design was pretty clean and minimal and yet an SPA.)

robjan7y ago

The old Reddit design isn't really an SPA. It's just server rendered with a bit of Ajax for interactivity

adtac7y ago

I think the definition is a bit murky there. I can do a _lot_ of things on a Reddit page without a refresh: add comments, delete comments, edit, sticky, report as spam, save, hide the post, view the contents of the post (if it's an image), crosspost to other subs, etc. I understand that a true SPA would never require a refresh for anything, but this comes pretty close.

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