Of the two, only discord actually really needs javascript to work as intended on a browser. Reddit, though? It’s still a static web forum, you don’t lose much browsing old.reddit instead of www.reddit.
Besides, I never argued those two are not “rich web applications”, my point was that “static web content looks dated” wasn’t the main driver for people to move into centralized platforms.
Of the two, only discord actually really needs javascript to work as intended on a browser. Reddit, though? It’s still a static web forum, you don’t lose much browsing old.reddit instead of www.reddit.
Besides, I never argued those two are not “rich web applications”, my point was that “static web content looks dated” wasn’t the main driver for people to move into centralized platforms.