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> Talk is small — about 300kb — and lightweight

This makes me feel old. Is 300kb really considered small these days?

I'm developing an embedded comments system, it's 150 kb on page load. https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments

Disqus seems to be 600kb (I summed the size of the "disqus" scripts on a blog that uses Disqus).

Not really, 300kb for a pwa seems sane but for just for a comment system? That seems incredible bloated.

Not just 300 kB of downloadable code, it's 300 kB of executable code. That's huge