Yeah, because it's not about the fact that it was done on Reddit, it's the fact that this just isn't news to most people here. This is easily one of the most basic web design techniques pushed today, and what he fixed is so espoused in the basics of frontend performance that I'm shocked people consider this news.

John's a great dev and a nice guy who just fixed a subreddit. I don't see it as news if he makes an incredibly basic change to an arbitrary site, though - I follow him on Twitter for this kind of information. ;)