

It’s really not that bad. As the other person said, the UX is down to the client you choose. It’s an open protocol that everyone already has an account on.
But if you can persuade everyone onto signal, then that’s probably going to be better. I thought you were saying that wasn’t possible as they “don’t care about privacy”.




Sounds like 4chan rolled their own server-side page cache. It probably made more sense for 4chan to do that then, back when the internet was still pretty new.
Nowadays there are a few packages that perform a similar function, like Varnish. Varnish picks up requests from the internet and where possible, it returns the response as static HTML from its own cache.
There are other types of caching at different stages of the request lifecycle that can reduce the gap between dynamic and static website performance.