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Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:32PM (#49412346)
FWIW, this site is fast, works perfectly with a text-only browser, e.g., links (1.4MB static binary), elinks, or without a (bloated?) browser, e.g., retrieve all the pages, catenate and read as a single HTML file or convert it to, e.g., SQL, CSV or a plain text file

All the /p/ URLs are in the sitemap, all the site's pages can be retrieved over a single TCP connection

https://debloat.dev/sitemap.xml

This, i.e., retrieving all 200 /p/ URLs over a single TCP connection (using HTTP/1.1 pipelining), results in a 1.9MB HTML file comprising all the /p/ pages, including response headers. NB. This isn't "crawling". All URLs (cf. a set of "seed" URLs) are known before the connection is made

No cookies, no Javascript

Other than CSS, no bloat

NB. A 1.9MB sitemap would not be large. For example, here is a 2.9MB sitemap from AP

https://apnews.com/ap-sitemap-202607.xml

Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives by eterm on Sunday August 23, 2026 @05:02PM (#49412598)
I about to splutter that 1.9MB is a huge sitemap, but it's 12kB.

Do you mean crawling the entire sitemap and concatenating the results is 1.9MB?

Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives by Hendrikto on Monday August 24, 2026 @03:49AM (#49416450)
> retrieving all 200 /p/ URLs over a single TCP connection […] results in a 1.9MB HTML file

That is exactly what he said, yes.

Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives by inigyou on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:17AM (#49418668)
But then he compared it to a sitemap that is 2.9MB by itself.
Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives by varun_ch on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:00PM (#49414135)
Also, the website seems to be largely ‘vibe coded’, at least given by the written copy and the style. If you ask Claude to use 1990s/2000s web design and HTML it’ll do something like this.
Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday August 24, 2026 @09:43AM (#49419683)
The sitemap "standard" was not introduced until 2005

Would a "1990's style" website offer a sitemap.xml file

Also, this site, like most today, uses "slugs" for its URLs. In the 1990's this was less common; URLs were often "uncool":

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

NB. I'm not commenting on the website's content or how it was generated/sourced