this exacerbates network connectivity problems too overall we've moved to a lot of design patterns that fail miserably on flaky networks and I hate ithttps://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/1138135017148674048 …
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Another pattern that does this: single page apps. Some can be written really well, but many are terrible in the face of network issues, and the lack of any browser feedback on loading makes it harder to tell if something broke or if it's just slow.
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I really wish we had the bandwidth to get rid of the Ember frontend on http://crates.io
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Crates has almost no user state so it's actually fine in this regard
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Is there any state other than "logged in"?
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Also following crates which is a feature that I'm pretty sure exactly 0 people have used ever
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While we're listing useless features, have you ever wanted to know all the crates that start with the letter a? https://crates.io/crates?letter=A
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I mean *obviously* we need this. Otherwise the "Browse all crates" page would just be too much to handle. And everyone is going to the browse all crates page right?
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