Whenever a website changes its design, there's bound to be mixed feelings. But we hope that these changes have improved some aspects of the site's ...
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This was also an opportunity to refactor the CSS and eliminate some duplication. Since we inline the critical path CSS for performance, every bite counts.
The logged in DEV home now delivers in 13.1kb with no render-blocking resources. For internal nav, the page fetches only 5.3kb because we don't need to refetch the layout and some resources.
Also experimenting with some H2 server push. 🙂
My data plan would like to thank you
We also pre-fetch some resources under the hood which adds a few more KB as you browse the site, but it's all way less than most other sites, and in the future we'll even allow some customization in your settings for how we go about fetching assets/content.
I am always SO impressed by the responsiveness of the site--and the people working on it :D--and seriously appreciate how much content there is while not choking the connection or swarming in a million video ads that pop up randomly or hover.
It's almost as if the founder of this site thinks the web doesn't have to suck. 😄
Pfffffffffft, what a ridiculous idea! That's as whacky as implying that actual human build this stuff and not magic tube-forging robot pipelines.
TPD is hosted on Heroku, right? How does H2 fare on it?
That's all handled via our CDN Fastly
I really like the subsections on the side for
#discussand#explainlikeimfive, and especially the tailored buttons for them :)eta: Is
ctrl-fsupposed to hop you up to the search bar? I was just trying to find something on the page itself..... :DYeah, ran we just into the issue too.
ctrl-fwas supposed to be ignored. But upon further research it seems pretty hard to do that in a bug-free way. So switched to just the/key and modified the above post. I was looking for an excuse to only use one of the keys anyway and this provided it.Thanks for fixing this! Someone was complaining to me today that the site was key-jacking the
ctrl+f.Makes total sense to me!
This new look is 🔥
The changes are really awesome! I do have a suggestion. The "Welcome" box on the top-right could be a link to a short text presenting the purpose dev.to for newcomers.
Good call. Right now it's just kind of sitting there.
a shortcut for jumping right into the search bar, pretty cool 😎
Nice work Ben! It's great to see a network like this putting so much focus on performance in this day and age. We appreciate it. Has there been any work towards making dev.to accessible? Noticing the outline has been removed which can be problematic for keyboard users.
Keep up the great work!
So personally, my vision isn't the absolute best and I find the new background to have very poor contrast with the main elements on a page--making it harder to navigate than most sites. I just pulled open the inspector and changed the background to something darker (a lime green color) and found I preferred it. You mentioned giving people the ability to create custom shortcuts via a setting, it'd be nice to be able to change the background color via a setting. On sites that support it, I choose a dark theme as I find it easier to read.
Thanks a lot for the feedback.
PLEASE remap the search hot key to something universal across keyboard layouts. We don’t have the slash key on Hungarian keyboards.
Great job Ben, web site looks sleek and nice..
I was just writing a post about the dev.to new design lol
Well done!