Medium is not even the worst, it’s quick and I’ve never seen that progress bar. Blogger/Blogspot is my most frustrating online experience when I have to read text: it’s very slow to load even on a fast connection and shows fullscreen spinning cogs, breaks Safari Reader on desktop and mobile, overrides gestures and makes me lose track.
Really, you don’t need Javascript to load a page of text.
Agreed. To me, the gears make it feel that the page is taking longer to load. It's especially rubbish because the page that loads is normally just text and static images, not some complicated webapp. Should have been fast to begin with.
Because the team who developped these stupid templates dont care about users, that's a fact. Or why would they do that ? they just want to kill their plateform and move on. that's the only explanation.
Really, you don’t need Javascript to load a page of text.