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I don't usually do this, but it's about public health and this site is getting a lot of press and HOLY !*#$ WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE REACT COMMUNITY!?:

webpagetest.org/result/200419_…
This feels like the right place to invoke @tomskitomski:



If I had to guess, this probably wasn't ever tested on anything w/o a "Designed in Cupertino" badge.
It's *more than 900K of JS* to see the headline data. A screen shot is significantly smaller.

Nothing about this is OK.
Once -- just once -- I'd like to see prominent React peeps pitching in to fix these sorts of disasters instead of just excusing them.
@kevin, @mikeyk: this is bad and slow, but it could be much faster with some small-ish improvements. LMK if you want assistance there.
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Increasingly distracted by the Performance Inequality Gap: the difference between those in the high-performance bubble thinking they're increasing richness without decreasing reach, but who are actually tanking reach by making content inaccessibly slow.
Users with the fastest devices and networks -- which includes ~all developers and business decision makers -- are leaning into technologies (JS) that, by their very nature, are decreasing the reach and usability of their services for users outside the bubble.
These devs & managers benefit from the Performance Inequality Gap in many (often indirect) ways, but not nearly as much as their now-margninalized users (and their businesses) lose.
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There seems to be confusion about how, exactly, Apple keeps the web second-class on iOS. Understandable! It's the interplay of several interlocking effects. Let's examine them (thread).
First, no matter how app-like it is, Section 4.2 of the App Store Review Guidelines excludes web experiences from being discovered via the search box where users go to add things to their homescreen.

Structural prejudice against the web by policy: developer.apple.com/app-store/revi…
Next, Apple under-invests in Safari's engine (WebKit) in ways that cumulatively make it difficult to do anything new and ambitious. The cumulative effect of the under-investment is hard to overstate, but it can be graphed:

web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
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It's infinitely frustrating to see press coverage of HKmap.live that doesn't *actually link to HKmap.live* which is a real, bona-fide website that does the job.
This article has *25* other links, but doesn't actually link to HKmap.live

🤦‍♂️ buzzfeednews.com/article/alexka…

The hell are you doing, @BuzzFeedNews?
@BuzzFeedNews @voxdotcom: this article contains 22 links and talks about HKmap.live, but doesn't link it. Wut.

vox.com/recode/2019/10…

/cc @Pinboard
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