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Ethan Marcotte Mar 28, 2024

You’d think “it’s easier for many phones to render PUBG than modern websites” would be an industry-wide wake-up call, but. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/modern-web-bloat-means-some-entry-level-phones-cant-run-simple-web-pages-and-load-times-are-high-for-pcs-some-sites-run-worse-than-pubg

Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG

Danluu benchmarks numerous websites and discusses their impact on older and/or weaker hardware

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FoolishOwl Mar 28, 2024

@beep I've been wrestling with the idea of setting up a personal website, mostly as an exercise in setting up a workflow with git and MkDocs and so on. And the more I'd try to imagine doing it, the less enthusiasm I have for it.

And right now I'm thinking, what's the point of trying to do it "professionally", when the "professional" model is just obviously extremely bad?

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Eliot Lash Mar 28, 2024

@foolishowl @beep Yeah, for my personal website I've been trying to make it less bloated. I used self-hosted WordPress for many years but got tired of the hosting costs going up and constant upgrades. A few years ago I migrated the whole thing to Jekyll/GitHub Pages and I've been pretty happy with this as the site is now static and hosting is free. I can't do anything beyond simple edits using my phone or support comments/ActivityPub, but overall it's worth it to me.

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Sean

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@foolishowl @beep

At one point I had a comments system running on a statically rendered Hugo site on GitHub pages, but Heroku, which I was using to power it, sunset their free tier. My immediate reaction was pleasure to not support comments any more.