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> 7 requests, 691 KB, 19 s

?!? What is going on there?




They redid their UI last year to be more Web 2.0, which would've still been a mistake, if a less grave one, had it been competently executed.

I wonder if it's still serving a complete list of article names to every visitor? If so, that all by itself is probably a big chunk of that 691K. If not, God knows what they're doing now - I don't have a console on my phone, and won't switch to my desktop just to dissect the latest mistakes of rampant NIH as applied to the modern web.


The long request goes to "http://c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/FeynmanAlgorithm" which seems to be just the articles' text. But there's also a names.txt which is ~640K (260K gzip'd). Hm.


Yup, that's the one. Hooboy.


Et tu, c2?


I got 37 requests, 1,956.14 KB, 150.93 s.

Do I win something?


10 non-transferable Internet points.

Special quest worth 1000 Internet points! Turn c2 wiki into an Electron app, so that we also have to download a separate browser to view it!




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