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I know it's gauche to mention it, but JFC, the bsky web UI is shockingly slow. 2MB of JS to render a timeline, not a PWA, larded up with workarounds for Safari bugs which make scrolling everywhere else worse...just...*sigh*. Thankfully, @mary.my.id's excellent Skeetdeck exists: skeetdeck.pages.dev

Bsky highlights the contradiction at the heart of React's bezzle: in order to support RN (supporting app store gatekeepers), it creates a model that makes the (open, interoperable, free) web site shite to use...pushing people to apps. This is not pro-open-web.

bsky.app/profile/jpsc... Yep, it's kinda sad. I hope they can improve when they have the capacity

"the capacity"? Nolan Lawson singlehandedly built Pinafore for Mastodon. @mary.my.id singlehandedly built Skeetdeck. It's not about resources, it's about priorities.

OMFG, the fonts are served *as TTF files*!!!!! Christ on a cracker.

This is what failure to web good looks like. I'm sure you could make a better React solution, but this is just an embarrassment compared to Pinafore or Elk...and for what? To prop up app stores? www.webpagetest.org/video/compar...

It’s a team of 20 people. Native apps, web, backend, 20 people. Yeah, there is room for improvement, but this is not the way to deliver that message.

Not all of whom are engineers. Also you forgot the protocol. It's self evident that the people trying to dunk here don't have the background to truly understand what the team has built with so few resources If you think you can do the same or better we would all love to see it, competition is good!