This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2015, at the Web Directions conference in Sydney.
The Website Obesity Crisis
Let me start by saying that beautiful websites come in all sizes and page weights. I love big websites packed with images. I love high-resolution video. I love sprawling Javascript experiments or well-designed web apps.
This talk isn't about any of those. It's about mostly-text sites that, for unfathomable reasons, are growing bigger with every passing year.
While I'll be using examples to keep the talk from getting too abstract, I’m not here to shame anyone, except some companies (Medium) that should know better and are intentionally breaking the web.
Unterhaltsamer Vortrag von Maciej Cegłowski (Pinboard), welcher viele valide Punkte hat, aber dann doch hin und wieder über's Ziel hinausschießt und an den Realitäten vorbeigeht. Einige Punkte sind Wunschdenken von uns technisch versierten Internetbewohnern, finden aber kaum Schnittmengen mit den Ansprüchen der normalen™ Menschen da draußen. Trotzdem eine sehr empfehlenswerte Lektüre.