That being said, I agree that the web is bloated and needs to go on a diet. We just need to be careful on where to spend our energy for optimization (caches are great and we should rely on them).
Web perfomance optimization tells me a lot about a product and its priorities. I do not mind bloated products that perform a certain function well for their users and never try to pretend to be optimial from an engineering standpoint.
But this is nim, language that markets itself as efficient and elegant, and execution like this can hurt their credibility and brand perception in the very community they are trying to market themselves in (developers).
Back in 2018 when I implemented the basis for this modern reimplementation of the Nim forum I focused on the functionality and a solid CI so that we can easily accept others' contributions without fear of regressions. Unfortunately I had only 2 solid weeks to make this a reality and optimising the code size didn't make the cut.
This is a big low hanging fruit fix, another is simply minifying the Forum's JS, there is also bound to be a lot that can be done on the Nim side to reduce the code size generated.
[1] https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/blob/master/nimforum.ni...
I forgot to mention that it is not a bug. See https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/335 for example (I believe there are others issues like this in the repo)
Caches hang or crash my browser. Please don't. (Amazon Kindle Paperwhite – yes, this has been my only web browser several times – no, I will not replace it with another Kindle when it breaks)