Imgur is already bloated. As for reddit, I'm curious about what makes you think they're drifting towards bloating. They use JavaScript (replying to a comment creates a new textarea), AJAX (posting a comment), WebSockets (real-time updates of comment timestamps), modals (sign up), but they do this in a very moderate way and the result is really robust. It seems to me that they perfectly know the power of all these technologies but have a very strong QA which doesn't let a single shit get pushed in prod.
jasonsync|10 years ago
Perhaps the recent resignations have something to do with a pushback against that? Internal bloat will eventually show itself!
scrollaway|10 years ago
What are you talking about?
Qwertious|10 years ago
If I leave this up for an hour without refreshing, I'll get:
>scrollaway 10 hours ago | parent | flag
Again, without ever refreshing the page.