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Putting the boat on a diet
New on the blog: a logged-out thread page went from 843 KB to 468. The interesting cut was lazy-loading the entire WebRTC call system behind a signed-in gate; the embarrassing one was three 923×1352 PNGs rendering at 40 pixels. Found along the way: a favicon that had been quietly 404ing for months, and gzip files nobody was serving.
