I do indeed know what's in class="clutter", because I had to parse it. What I've seen so far is just the user's registered date. Why they hid this with a special class, rather than putting a rule on .profile-joined is beyond me. Maybe the name is supposed to be ironic.
But rather than the polyfills mentioned in the comic, I'm pretty sure that half of this junk is for advertising. The other half is just questionable development practices.
I really don't know what you're talking about with the twitter thing. I'm guessing I avoided it because I loaded zero JS files while getting the forum content. They don't seem to have invented the technology to serve the forums as a "single-page app" (which actually would have made it easier because then I'd be working with an API).
Anyway the backup scraper software is on my Github, and if anyone wants, I'll send you a copy of the forums. It's only 36MB compressed.-- ?×V
But rather than the polyfills mentioned in the comic, I'm pretty sure that half of this junk is for advertising. The other half is just questionable development practices.
I really don't know what you're talking about with the twitter thing. I'm guessing I avoided it because I loaded zero JS files while getting the forum content. They don't seem to have invented the technology to serve the forums as a "single-page app" (which actually would have made it easier because then I'd be working with an API).
Anyway the backup scraper software is on my Github, and if anyone wants, I'll send you a copy of the forums. It's only 36MB compressed.-- ?×V