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Comment by lpcvoid | Hacker News Reader

This is probably the worst website I have ever used. Why does it have a progress bar, why is everything slow, why is it not simply a html page. What is going on with these people.

Also, author quote :

>I use a low-end PC and can't possibly afford to run another Electron app

But proceeds to create more slow running web stuff. Okay. Is it just me or does this just seem like such a strange behavior?

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Even by HN standards this seems like an excessive level of cynicism for a bog standard blog post format.

Well, it _is_ 5.4 MB of data for a short text-only blog post. Even by today's web standards this seems like an excessive amount of bloat.

I did not mean to come about as cynical, I simply do not understand this mindset. If you identified a problem, why not fix it? Why keep on making the same decision with the same deterministic outcome?

If you don't want to come across as cynical, you could probably have done without these superlatives:

> This is probably the worst website I have ever used.

> What is going on with these people.

Are you talking about the indiehackers website? That's not made by the author of the post

I'm aware, that was a different point of criticism. I apologize if that wasn't clear.

The author could have picked a more suitable place to make an announcement. This is so hypocritical it's actually pretty funny.

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