Just started getting this now. Hopefully it’s some A/B testing that they’ll stop doing, but I’m not holding my breath

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      Even things like lazy loading and such require js though

      A lot of features might not be obvious honestly

      If you’re interested though, you could check the source which should be able to tell you immediately what they use it for

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        I love how Lemmy users just assume everyone is a coder… Just a funny observation, not being rude. Lol

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          Presumably… If you’re complaining about the use of Javascript, you have some coding knowledge. Otherwise it’s like complaining about the steering wheel in a car, when you can’t drive and don’t have a licence.

          Either they have the knowledge to confirm your answer, or you’re just being a backseat driver

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      It wasn’t required, but id wager 99% of website that exist currently run JS in some form or another for something.

      Id wager its impossible to have anything dynamic on a webpage without JS (minus visual dynamics which can be handled with css), at that point you have to replace it with a different programming language and every browser needs to completely change gears to allow other code to run instead. But what advantage is gained by changing to another programming language? Cleaner code w/ less jankyness? Sure I guess, but we would be moving mountains to accomplish a silly thing.

      I’m wondering if many people in this thread understand what JS is and does.