Some of these sites are un-fucking-bearable on my gen old iPhone.
And the if I’m in a place with a shitty signal, forget about it, this problem is 10 times worse.
I’m not even talking about the cluttered UI where only a third of the page is visible because of frozen headers and ads, I’m talking about the size of the websites themselves that are built by people who throw shit against the wall until it looks like whatever design document they were given. A website that would have already been bloated had it been built correctly that then becomes unusable on a slow internet connection, forget slow hardware.
All that is to say, I can’t imagine what it must be like to use the internet under the circumstances in which you described.
I can only hope these people use localized sites built for their bandwidth and devices and don’t have to interact with the bloated crap we deal with.
I really wish all software developers had to have 10 year old phones and computers and a slow 3G connection as their daily drivers. It might at the very least give them some empathy about how hard it is to use their software on an underspec machine.
And the if I’m in a place with a shitty signal, forget about it, this problem is 10 times worse.
I’m not even talking about the cluttered UI where only a third of the page is visible because of frozen headers and ads, I’m talking about the size of the websites themselves that are built by people who throw shit against the wall until it looks like whatever design document they were given. A website that would have already been bloated had it been built correctly that then becomes unusable on a slow internet connection, forget slow hardware.
All that is to say, I can’t imagine what it must be like to use the internet under the circumstances in which you described.
I can only hope these people use localized sites built for their bandwidth and devices and don’t have to interact with the bloated crap we deal with.