<story><title>The balance has shifted away from SPAs</title><url>https://nolanlawson.com/2022/05/21/the-balance-has-shifted-away-from-spas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TekMol</author><text>What is SPA about YouTube? It feels completely MPA to me.</text></item><item><author>tshaddox</author><text>YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are the obvious examples from among the top 10 or so most visited websites in the United States.</text></item><item><author>TekMol</author><text>Where are those SPAs everybody is talking about?&lt;p&gt;All sites I use regularly are MPAs:&lt;p&gt;Hackernews, Amazon, AirBnB, Booking.com, Wikipedia, GithHub ...&lt;p&gt;Reddits new design is kind of a hybrid. It is MPA when you hop between subreddits and other pages. But it shows a post on the same page when you click on it in a subreddit feed. I actually are annoyed by the new Reddit enough to switch to old.reddit.com most of the time when I end up on Reddit. Not sure why. But maybe it tells something, that the only &amp;quot;somewhat SPA&amp;quot; I know makes me switch to its MPA version regularly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>Minimize a video so it&amp;#x27;s playing in the corner of the browser; notice that the video continues to play seamlessly as you navigate around the site. You can&amp;#x27;t do that in an MPA right now.</text></comment>
<story><title>The balance has shifted away from SPAs</title><url>https://nolanlawson.com/2022/05/21/the-balance-has-shifted-away-from-spas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TekMol</author><text>What is SPA about YouTube? It feels completely MPA to me.</text></item><item><author>tshaddox</author><text>YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are the obvious examples from among the top 10 or so most visited websites in the United States.</text></item><item><author>TekMol</author><text>Where are those SPAs everybody is talking about?&lt;p&gt;All sites I use regularly are MPAs:&lt;p&gt;Hackernews, Amazon, AirBnB, Booking.com, Wikipedia, GithHub ...&lt;p&gt;Reddits new design is kind of a hybrid. It is MPA when you hop between subreddits and other pages. But it shows a post on the same page when you click on it in a subreddit feed. I actually are annoyed by the new Reddit enough to switch to old.reddit.com most of the time when I end up on Reddit. Not sure why. But maybe it tells something, that the only &amp;quot;somewhat SPA&amp;quot; I know makes me switch to its MPA version regularly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>323</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s an illusion. If you look carefully you&amp;#x27;ll see that all YT content is loaded dynamically, starting from a blank page with a blank video player.</text></comment>