Does reddit site performance seem to be getting worse and nothing being done by the admins about it?
So reddit has infinite scroll and after scrolling through a few hundred posts and watching a few videos, my fans turn on and my computer starts putting out a lot of heat. I even left a reddit tab open on accident one night and woke up to my laptop too hot to even sit on my lap. Once the reddit tab was closed I could immediately hear my fans wind down.
I have a 8 core processor and 8 gb of RAM, shouldn't that be enough? Should any website need to be using resources the way reddit does? This has been happening for so long that at this point I would think some of the blame needs to be placed on the engineers that designed the site.
I think one obvious solution would be to remove content from the DOM after the user has scrolled past it. Does every video I watch stay in memory until I close the tab? No wonder the video player stops working after I watch a few videos.
I'm using Chrome on Fedora 36 btw.
