We’ll be doing a lot of work to optimize the site experience. (Right now, I don’t have the sort of issues you describe, but it does take an unacceptably long time to load the comments on a page, for example). I expect some of that to help with these sorts of issues.
It wouldn’t be practical to have the old and new sites running in parallel (they don’t communicate with each other easily, they’d basically be two separate sites and part of the whole point is that this current site has too many underlying issues to make it practical to maintain), but if it’s still having issues running on older hardware we may figure out some kind of “accessibility mode” that renders less complicated stuff, possibly with fewer features)
(I expect the people currently working on it to not get to that sort of thing for awhile because there’s a long list of things that need doing fairly urgently, but it’s worth noting that it’s open sourced, so anyone who has time to fix an issue that’s bugging them is welcome to do so)
We’ll be doing a lot of work to optimize the site experience. (Right now, I don’t have the sort of issues you describe, but it does take an unacceptably long time to load the comments on a page, for example). I expect some of that to help with these sorts of issues.
It wouldn’t be practical to have the old and new sites running in parallel (they don’t communicate with each other easily, they’d basically be two separate sites and part of the whole point is that this current site has too many underlying issues to make it practical to maintain), but if it’s still having issues running on older hardware we may figure out some kind of “accessibility mode” that renders less complicated stuff, possibly with fewer features)
(I expect the people currently working on it to not get to that sort of thing for awhile because there’s a long list of things that need doing fairly urgently, but it’s worth noting that it’s open sourced, so anyone who has time to fix an issue that’s bugging them is welcome to do so)