Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
HN is lightweight in some ways, but also quite bad in others. For example, every single time you vote on anything, the site sends back a 302 redirect and then a copy of the entire page's HTML in response. This means that every vote results in a response that's usually around 10KB gzipped.As of right now, for me, voting on any comment in this thread currently causes a 14KB response and takes about 1.3 seconds to finish.