Utterly unusable

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I’ve mentioned several times that I run my browser with JavaScript disabled most of the time, whenever I’m looking at a site that works well enough without it, which SDMB does as far as I’m concerned. I’ve even gotten razzed for it a few times. But hey, it eliminates ads, pop-unders, and all that shit very very effectively. Pages load very quickly, and once loaded, they stay loaded, and once a page is DONE loading, it’s DONE loading!

On rare occasions (as rare as I can make them), I’ve looked at SDMB from the public library computer. Holy fucking shit, this site is horrible with JavaScript running! Pages NEVER finish loading. They continually, non-stop, are connecting, loading who-knows-what, sometimes popping up ads but more often doing nothing visible except for what I see in the status bar.

But holy crap, it cure ties up the CPU. Navigation within a page (simple scrolling, mostly) is ghastly slow and jumpy. I can have a cup of coffee while I wait for the next page to load. Even after I stop trying to scroll up or down, the rendering will be a ways behind the actually navigation I’ve done, and the screen jumps periodically as it slowly catches up, making it unreadable until it finally settles.

I could live, however reluctantly, with ads at the top of the screen or even in sidebars if SDMB were formatted that way. But damn, can’t those ads just get loaded and be done and finished loading once they’ve finished loading?

This site, in its intended usage (with JavaScript enabled) is nigh unusable.

Is anyone else here finding this to be the case too? Or is it just my public library’s computer and network?

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Agreed. I turn off javascript specifically because of this site. Which is both praise and a complaint. This is the only site I spend so much time on that the javascript stuff gets under my skin. Other places, I’m only there for a quick article or two and can deal with it briefly. I spend all day here.

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I run the web filter at my company. I block most JavaScript and ads at the filter. The internet is quite pleasant that way. But, yeah, I recall the SDMB being very piggy when you give it a chance.

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I never have trouble with this forum. Runs just fine, and ad free. Unlike those clickbait quiz sites…

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I personally use adblock or ublock origin (depends on which of my computers, some still have adblock), and I also use noscript. I have noscript set to allow the SDMB, but that’s it. All of the other crap like viglink is blocked.

The SDMB mostly works with scripts disabled. You won’t get a notification popup if someone sends you a PM and there are a couple of other similarly minor things that won’t work properly, but it’s at least usable with scripts blocked.

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Search is impossible with NoScript running.

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Like engineer said, allow just Straightdope, disable the rest.