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Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by ktjalve »

fredrikholm wrote: post #9
ktjalve wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We will do a https://1kb.club/ site next year.

Genuinely curious, why does the page make 20+ requests for ~1.5Mb of non-content for a site that quite literally exists to showcase small websites? Oversight?

“Tiny Awards is a small prize awarded by an equally-small selection committee of online makers to the website which we feel best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web.”

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by DanSmooth »

fredrikholm wrote: post #9
ktjalve wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We will do a https://1kb.club/ site next year.

Genuinely curious, why does the page make 20+ requests for ~1.5Mb of non-content for a site that quite literally exists to showcase small websites? Oversight?

I think they use another definition of "small" than most of tech-oriented folks here at HN. They don't seem to be interested in filesizes, number of requests, or even usability. They used a WYSIWG builder (see their advertisement somewhere else in this thread), which is responsible for all of the bloat. It looked good on their (fruity?) devices, and they went with it. It doesn't look like anyone with a technical sensibility was ever involved.

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by elaus »

fredrikholm wrote: post #9
ktjalve wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We will do a https://1kb.club/ site next year.

Genuinely curious, why does the page make 20+ requests for ~1.5Mb of non-content for a site that quite literally exists to showcase small websites? Oversight?

In another comment the author wrote that the page is built with a WYSIWYG editor. Those tend to come with a lot of bloat and home-made tracking...

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by fjfaase »

The requirement is that the website should be created in the past year. That cancels out all those small websites (with no ads) that were created before social networks became dominant.

I wonder if you will be happy when you small website will be rewarded as you may suddenly get a lot of traffic resulting in either becoming unavailable due to heavy traffic or forced on a more costly plan by the ISP. That is one reason why I am hesitant to post links here to my private website.

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by Etheryte »

chrismorgan wrote: post #5
MrVandemar wrote: post #2

Tiny Awards for Small Websites is awarded the prestigious and highly coveted "Boatload of Unecessary Javascript Blocking Content Award" by me.

Yep. About 1.7 MB of JavaScript (yeah, less across the wire) to do literally nothing interactive , and have a janky, ridiculously-scaled document where everything is the same shade of blue, links are not distinguished in any way, and a decorative image even collides with the text in one place. The whole thing should have been under 20KB of pure HTML, SVG and CSS. Found a tracker in it that the usual uBlock Origin lis…

I thought you were exaggerating, but no, everything literally is one color and links look just like regular text.

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by moritonal »

fjfaase wrote: post #16

The requirement is that the website should be created in the past year. That cancels out all those small websites (with no ads) that were created before social networks became dominant. I wonder if you will be happy when you small website will be rewarded as you may suddenly get a lot of traffic resulting in either becoming unavailable due to heavy traffic or forced on a more costly plan by the ISP. That is one reaso…

Yeah, the date requirement of deployment in the last year is oddly strict vs their target audience of slow calm websites.

Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites

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Post by bradley_taunt »

ktjalve wrote: post #7
chrismorgan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. About 1.7 MB of JavaScript (yeah, less across the wire) to do literally nothing interactive , and have a janky, ridiculously-scaled document where everything is the same shade of blue, links are not distinguished in any way, and a decorative image even collides with the text in one place. The whole thing should have been under 20KB of pure HTML, SVG and CSS. Found a tracker in it that the usual uBlock Origin lis…

We will do a https://1kb.club/ site next year.

I’m sure this is in jest, but it truly is baffling that this purely informational webpage is so massive.

I believe the “small” web is more than being an independent entity and instead also should avoid wasted resources. Developers need to respect their end users’ bandwidth and time. Just my two cents.

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