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		staticautomatic 23 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds we... Doesn't McMaster Carr still use sprites? Is that like the one optimization they managed to get wrong?

flomo 23 days ago | [–]

Looks like it, but isn't this site famous for being a "classic" storefront?

Some CMSs would auto-generate sprites. If you are showing most of them, it's still a positive, I'd assume. And, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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