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Thanks for the reply. I agree that 1.66mb is insane for what my site does, and I'm working on minifying it as much as possible. I got it down to ~90kb, which is

Thanks for the reply. I agree that 1.66mb is insane for what my site does, and I'm working on minifying it as much as possible. I got it down to ~90kb, which is still not amazing, but is significantly better than 1.6mb. Fonts were taking up more than 90% of that, which I just stripped. I do disagree with the idea of including code from others being a bad practice/smell. The detriment and added load time of using a library like jQuery is well worth the functionality it provides, IMO. Thanks for the comment and for pointing out a problem with the article, though - I've revised it!

tinymollusk 9y ago
Just a quick vote to reinforce what you did. You made something, and asked for the most absurd audience to critique it. Keep being you. HN hated Dropbox, of all things. I am hesitant to announce my product here because I struggle with as widespread of negativity as I perceive here. If someone isn't going to buy what you're selling, I feel they should be silent and just not buy. If they would buy with a small tweak, there are ways for Bad PMs to put up their credit card. Otherwise, ignore their advice, ignore mine, and keep pushing. For the people who ask for more, yeah. There's always room for improvement. But if you take down people within our community, you can go sit and spin.