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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by scarface74 on Monday August 27, 2018 @10:15PM (#17856158)
The Reddit app for iOS is 55.8MB. Not exactly a bloated app.
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by masonic on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @03:52AM (#17857218)
For perspective, imagine installing such a low-utility program spanning 39 high-density 1.44MB diskettes... and considering that not bloated.

(Isn't that more than the entire original Linux distributions from the copyfest era?)

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by scarface74 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @12:01PM (#17869255)
That reminds me, imagine installing it on my first Mac with an 80MB hard drive. My entire SoftPC install with a disk image was only about 10MB.

And Windows 95 was only 55MB install.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1060820-how-big-were-the-...

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by wolco on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @12:03AM (#17856483)
55.8 mg is bloated. A news reader should be under 30 ideally 20 or less
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by earenndil on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @11:58PM (#17914930)
(I beta-tested it) it started out at around 5mb. It slowly increased to around 20-30mb, and around that time I lost interest.
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by jondubois on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @01:54AM (#17856812)
That's massive. My phone hard drive is pretty full so I often have to delete stuff to make room for other stuff.
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