• KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    When “New” Reddit came out, it was just shockingly bad. If they didn’t keep old.reddit.com online, they would have killed the site then. Until very recently I couldn’t even view all child comments within the main thread, and it still takes at least twice as long to load any page.

    Coming to Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air. The site is much more responsive than Reddit despite most instances running on a single VPS or something.

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        1 year ago

        You’re right! The front page of Reddit is nearly 8x larger than Lemmy.ml, and took almost 7x longer to load than Lemmy.

        Uncached loading results:

        Lemmy: 3.3 MB, 39 requests in 1.85 seconds
        Old Reddit: 6.3 MB, 60 requests in 4.53 seconds
        New Reddit: 24.5 MB, 351 requests in 12.21 seconds

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      1 year ago

      The first issue I noticed with new reddit was the missing sidebar. Is that functionality that I should have easily found or is it still missing after all this time?