Comment on What's up with Epic Games?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 8 months agoSteam’s, Epic’s, Ubisoft’s, Battle.net’s and whatever-EA’s-thing-is-called-now’s sites are also slow as shit. What is it with these platforms which prevent them from loading a webpage in less than 10 seconds?
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Sadly, it’s likely a lot of tracking. The kind that look where your mouse is and where you scroll and stop etc.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 8 months ago
What tracking does Epic need? “According to our analytics, 100% of users scroll to the free games banner on Tuesday at 5pm CEST, then leave and don’t come back for a week. What a mystery!”
key@lemmy.keychat.org 8 months ago
Oh thanks for the reminder, I hadn’t opened epic so I can scroll down to the free games banner in a while.
suction@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’d be appalled how much people in corporations earn for making these obvious observations…
ono@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
In Steam’s case, the slowness looks more likely just a side effect of it being a Chromium Embedded Framework application with a lot of extras bolted on. It’s simply not built efficiently.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The website, outside of the client is still slower than it used to be a good few years ago