Noscript viewer

[335566]

I heavily relied on the legacy viewer since I’m reading on an old device. Loading some chapters make my browser crash without the legacy viewer. Please bring make an option to read chapters without javascript or split chapters into individual pages.

 

[havelmom]

+1
js has trouble fetching images from the server under moderate load or with new chapters
it also has the problem seemingly at random, when reading multiple chapters

 

[supermoonchrome]

not only are they not going to do what you're asking, they're going to make the whole site a big bloated Javascript SPA. This is a waste of effort, considering the site has lots of downtime and the frontend is not the problem.

 

[42]

Here is an example of a page that has next/previous buttons and doesn't require javascript: https://git-send-email.io/ (source: <https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git-send-email.io/tree>)

With http2 push it's possible to send this page + the images in one go, and also apply correct ratelimits, etc. directly from the server (without any client scripting/request validation needed).

 

[Altego35]

Out of curiosity, what old device are you using (e.g. hardware, OS, browser, version)?

 

[Moodyz]

Site will just get more and more bloated, because fashion.
Performance=Lightness is a forgotten art.

 

[Matrixik]

@Moodyz it's not forgotten art, problem is from developers point of view pages are fast because they earn nice money and most of the time they test speed on they own phone/computer that are fast/quite new/expensive on fast Internet. Sites aiming at a lot of users should test on most sold phones from 1-2 years ago (so costing around 200$ at that time) on slow-ish 4G Internet speeds but looks like no one is doing that today... I'm developer myself, with my 4 years old xiaomi redmi 4x I'm a weirdo around my dev friends.

More technical article:
https://infrequently.org/2021/03/the-performance-inequality-gap/