Everything about Reddit's (visible) engineering is terrible these days.
The new React app UI is probably one of the least performant React apps I've ever seen / experienced. Turn on the re-render track in React DevTools and watch as simply upvoting a single post on your page causes every component to re-render.
However they're delivering video/images to clients is the worst I've seen in a long time. Videos constantly buffer in ridiculous ways, you can barely scrobble, and images load in more slowly than anywhere else on the web. Honestly browsing Reddit in 2021 makes me feel like I'm back on dial-up.
Sorry anyone here that's a Reddit engineer but something is going terribly wrong over there.
> Sorry anyone here that's a Reddit engineer but something is going terribly wrong over there.
You shouldn't need to apologize to the Reddit engineers. They are the ones building it this way! I wish a Reddit engineer would respond here to help people understand why on earth the site's quality is so poor, but we know they can't/won't due to confidentiality. Whenever I browse the non-old Reddit, I can't help but think it's impossible to have such bad quality accidentally. They must be deliberately making it this bad. It would be fascinating to get a glimpse at their bug tracker, to see what tickets they prioritize and which ones they ignore.
The new React app UI is probably one of the least performant React apps I've ever seen / experienced. Turn on the re-render track in React DevTools and watch as simply upvoting a single post on your page causes every component to re-render.
However they're delivering video/images to clients is the worst I've seen in a long time. Videos constantly buffer in ridiculous ways, you can barely scrobble, and images load in more slowly than anywhere else on the web. Honestly browsing Reddit in 2021 makes me feel like I'm back on dial-up.
Sorry anyone here that's a Reddit engineer but something is going terribly wrong over there.