Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore

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Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Lets make sure we are on the same page then, cause I don’t see the issue with my post.

I am using the term “Graceful Degradation” which is meant as a fault tolerance for tech stacks to allow for a critical component to be removed.

This critical component people are talking about is Javascript which is used for all dynamically loaded content, and used for fallover protection so one service going down doesn’t make it so the entire page goes down (also an example of fault tolerance).

The proposed solution given would remove that fault tolerance for the reasons I provided in the original reply, while degrading the users experience due to reduced page load (users reloading the page inconsistently vs consistently to get new information) and increasing maintenance costs and overhead on the provider.

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