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I must say I am mildly amused that the author went to the effort to specify six SKUs based on size when the largest is only 10% larger than the smallest. And this approaches 0% as you add content to your wiki. But I always love seeing some blazing-fast web pages!

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Slippery slope! If you don’t watch out, that thing could balloon to 74K, 75K in a matter of years. And then where would we all be?

Many birds and twitter :)

I think the creator(s) should just simplify to the one full download. It'll make support and releases easier, and I genuinely can't see any reason why someone would download the other releases: https://feather.wiki/?page=downloads

Here, I'll simplify the options:

- All features, transpiled

- All features, not transpiled

- No Markdown, transpiled

- No Markdown, not transpiled

- No WYSIWYG, transpiled

- No WYSIWYG, not transpiled

And the difference in gzipped size from the largest to the smallest size is... 2KB.

I could simplify it to one file, but then I wouldn't be able to think of fun bird names to go with the relative file sizes! ;)

A great point! :)

LOL :) ROFL

I thought so, too, but maybe the author got a bit carried away with the bird analogies and needed a reason to add more bird photos (which is totally understandable).

Exactly this. I wanted to see how small I could get it (Hummingbird) and then got obsessed with the idea of bird names for the build versions and just had fun with it :)

Be(e) Hummingbird!

The goal is making it smaller and smaller at the same time improving usability. It will never be like TiddlyWiki, it sort of complements TiddlyWiki. This project is very new. So I think there will be lot of improvement. Any willing hackers here can check this out and contribute code: https://codeberg.org/Alamantus/FeatherWiki and help make it smaller, faster, better

What does SKU mean in this context? I assume you mean metrics but not sure which acronym for SKU this is

Stock Keeping Unit - if I produce mugs, my SKUs might be MUG-001-BLK and MUG-001-BLU based on the colourway.

This is a metaphoric meaning, as software doesn't really need to be 'stocked', and just refers to the different configurations available.

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