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Re:A Reflection on the Small Web by sodimel on Thursday September 29, 2022 @09:47AM (#33020550)
> If Small Web would actually worked, we would be discussing this on Small Web right now.

You mean discussing about lightweight websites on a website that weights less than 100KB? That would be incredible for sure :D

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Re:A Reflection on the Small Web by jasode on Thursday September 29, 2022 @09:57AM (#33020692)
>post: One of those ways is to force your browser to *not* download any file larger than a fixed threshold (like 50 kilo bytes

>You mean discussing about lightweight websites on a website that weights less than 100KB?

Many HN threads exceed the 50kb download you mentioned in your post. See examples from: https://news.ycombinator.com/best

- over ~200 comments will often exceed 50kb download

- over ~500 comments can exceed 100kb

(Open those big threads in with F12 browser Dev Tools and look at the byte counts.)

The arbitrary byte limits of 50kb or 100kb don't seem like a useful heuristic. In other words, if you tweak the rules to increase it to 200kb to allow HN threads, it then conflicts with other "bad" downloads that seemed to fit the profile of 50kb on other websites being an indicator of something unwanted.

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Re:A Reflection on the Small Web by dormento on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:02AM (#33080537)
As a thought exercise: IMHO the limitation should be transfer speed, rather than size of assets.
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