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Discussion on: Any reason for not using loading="lazy" attribute?

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Anderson Ismael Couto da Silva • Edited

you're right @ben , lazy load sucks.

possibly that's the reason that many here have avoided Medium to use the dev.to which appears to be much faster and stable precisely by avoiding lazy load.

intinite load is a valid choice, but lazy load is a lazy dev thing 😆

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Shalvah

I don't know how Medium's lazy load is implemented, but I hate it. Most times, the images remain permanently stuck loading. Seen this on a few other sites too. IMO, it's unnecessary.

I'm on a slow-ish connection, but I prefer just having the images load at once, so I know I can use the entire page. Lazy loading to me seems like one of those cool optimisations with debatable impact in the real world.