What's going on with the web?

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What’s going on with the web?

Jun 14, 2026

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Is it just me or has the general quality of all the web apps collectively gone down?

YouTube: I see more issues with YouTube. Videos don’t load as well as they used to. I’m on a 1Gbps line and the videos keep buffering and sometimes straight up don’t load. Every time I open YT, I’m welcomed with this fucking page. Every. Single. Fucking. Time.

You can tell I’m logged in from the subscriptions. It’s so weird.

Instagram: If someone posts 5 stories, if I can consistently get through all 5 of their stories on the web, I’d consider it a win that day.

GitHub: My favorite web app of all time, by a mile, GitHub, is now riddled with inconsistencies across the app. The Pull Request numbers don’t get updated. A lot of UI inconsistencies with Issues. I feel like React, especially with Virtual DOM + State management helped come up with a consistent way to fix all of these issues. It seems like we are back to where we were before that.

I’m not calling out just these apps. These are just the apps I tend to use more often than the rest. It seems like the general web app quality all across the board has deteriorated.

Now, the important question: Is it just me or do you feel the same way?

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