He doesn't hate Ruby's redesigned page. He is complaining about yet another example of waste of resources that clients have to do because you want your page look "dynamic". Please, make sure and be aware were these comments are being posted, a site that it's both "dynamic" and doesn't require much resources from the client.

This is a page that appeared on HN front page news.

So what do you expect? People ignoring the frankly idiotic choices made that you now defend with "they will come back and optimize it"?

> HTPP/2 parallel requests aren't that big a deal, all things considered.

I literally see a progress counter that is for some reason required to display the most trivial animation to show ... a single static link. On a gigabit connection. All that takes up to two seconds.

On that same connection the same thing happen to three purely three static examples of code that somehow need up to two seconds to appear and to shift the entire content of the page.

Both are especially jarring on mobile.