alt Hacker NewsI get the appeal of the 512KB Club. Most modern websites are bloat, slow and a privacy nightmare. I even get the nerdy thrill of fitting an entire website into a single IP packet, but honestly, this obsession with raw file size is kinda boring. It just encourages people micromanage whitespace, skip images or cut features like accessibility or responsive layouts.
A truly "suckless" website isn't about size. It's one that uses non-intrusive JS, embraces progressive enhancement, prioritizes accessibility, respects visitor's privacy and looks clean and functional on any device or output medium. If it ends up small: great! But that shouldn't be the point.
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A rather perfect example of "correlation is not causation". But being "suckless" is a lot harder to measure than just running `length(string)`.
Or to be even more suckless it would require the user toboatch in whatever feather they need.
Size matters too if your bandwidth is limited.