> Single page applications are opened once and then used over the whole day.
oh if only that were true. everyting is SPA now. imgur is a place where you go to see an image, then close. how many megabytes of javascript is it today
They have two use cases. You can use it to just click a link and close but the use case they go for is a full social media like reddit where the full features of an SPA make sense. Drive by viewers are probably lowest priority as they do not generate much revenue.
They were forced to go down this path as it was clear reddit would add their own image hosting and remove the need for imgur so the site would have to be self sustaining.
oh if only that were true. everyting is SPA now. imgur is a place where you go to see an image, then close. how many megabytes of javascript is it today