What is meta? ×  Is all of this k3wl AJAX really needed? What
really gets me is comments. Surely, surely, surely, the comment
text is small and the show comments could just unhide the HTML,
or insert the text from an embedded string. At the moment, there
is a pointless, irritating wait whilst a server round-trip is
performed. It takes more than 50-100 ms and is therefore evil.
(Just don't get me on the subject of Slashdot, Twitter, etc.,
retarded and unreliable AJAX.)  share|improve this question  4
Answers 4  I would suggest that their bandwidth suppression
measures would disagree...  I would say that, if their stats
show the first comment unhide corresponds to high probability of
many unhides on the same page (or subsequent pages) that they
should send all comments in one go on the first request.  That
said this will mean that, on fast moving new questions the
comments would stand a good chance of not being up to date and
thus have considerable duplication which is better represented
by up/down vots on a s