In reply to Sarah Gooding.

But to be fair, the content IS indexed by Google: https://cloudup.com/ckWeAEwqGxp

Not having progressive enhancement (server side rendering in this case) goes against established best practice. Some of the reasons for that being best practice are no longer valid, or at least not as important (such as SEO and accessibility), but if the JavaScript doesn't load because of a bad connection, you got no content.

That can happen to anyone, but it is probably more common for those less privileged (ie live in areas where good internet isn't a thing). It seems a shame to democratize publishing on the one hand, but then to present that content in a way that leaves some readers behind and unable to access it.

I know the percentage of people affected is only very small, but they are real people. I'll stop before I go on to how small percentages of the internet add up to large numbers of people and how we really care about that for some things (*cough* PHP version *cough*).

Anyway, I like the idea that we're experimenting with themes that use the WP REST API and great work Kelly and Mel for leading the way - but I do think such themes should serve up the basic content if JavaScript doesn't load. Hope we see people doing that as we get more of these themes.