My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow).
They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS.
Page sizes drop significantly:
* Transferred: ~600KB -> 30KB
* Total: 1.65MB -> 135KB
Just append `.lite` on a URL e.g. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/crgyyvdz1dro.lite
There's no on/off UX at the moment but they're working on that too.
#WebDev #WebPerf #WebPerformance #BBC
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The original: The Quatermass Experiment on BBC, a live miniseries in 1953 with no permanent record of the bulk of the broadcast. Proving ground of Nigel Kneale, the Rod Serling of the UK.
@books @bookstodon @religion #ChristianSciFi #ProfessorK #Quatermass #NigelKneale #amwritingsf #secretscifinetwork #BBC #1950sSciFi
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/the-quatermass-experiment-bbc-sci-fi-tv/
Fvck Off Nige. You already made noises about reducing womens autonomy and access to medical procedures. And you recently made a speech that could have been written by Adolf himself - all about children, church etc. The rest of the time you are finding ways to keep non-white people out of the country by calling them criminals, or military age men.
That’s what you do when you aren’t in the USA gathering up big business sponsors of the worst possible kind.
Shame on the #BBC giving you this kind of soft platform, without any decent context. #FreeAdvertising #Promotion
#Farage #ReformLtd
Nigel Farage: Reform UK want to make it easier for people to have children - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yx062pvlvo
"More than a hundred BBC employees have written a letter to the director general, Tim Davie, complaining that the Corporation has become a mouthpiece for Israel.
It was also signed by 300 other journalists and media professionals: one of them was yours truly"
Owen Jones
#BBC #Israel #Propaganda #Media
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BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR
https://www.owenjones.news/p/bbc-staff-were-forced-to-do-pro-israel