• mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    As someone that spends a lot of time on a vintage machine using sites like 68k.news and frogfind.com , I think it would be really sweet if there was a non JavaScript front end that could render correctly in something like Netscape 4. I know I’m a weirdo, but there’s a lot of weirdos like me on SDF :-)

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    1 year ago

    I think having a noscript site like old.lemmy.sdf.org available could only be a net positive, I can’t imagine that it would hurt to have it as an option, as long as it’s not too much work to keep it running.

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    1 year ago

    The default Lemmy interface already combines everything good about old.reddit’s design with additional quality of life features, faster performance, and Fediverse-oriented functionality.

    No, I do not want to use an old.reddit clone. Lemmy is already better and can be further improved by the community itself. We should be encouraging newcomers to embrace innovation, not encouraging them to go back to Reddit.

    • Scroll Responsibly@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      I had meant in addition to the regular Lemmy UI as something cool for people to use if they want to… not force everyone to use it 🤣. When I tested lemmy.world vs old.lemmy.world just now, respectively, I got 14.31 seconds vs 6.98 seconds with 32 requests each and 1.5MB vs 4.8 MB transferred (all this was done un-cached in Chromium). So on my end, old is heavier, but also faster.

      Regardless, I just think that the old front-end is cool and retro looking, and I was wondering if others here thought the same or not.