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Club for websites weighting less than 1kb

1kb.club

50 pointsblmayer15 comments

Fairly useless in my opinion.

From having a look many of them are just a small linktree to larger websites where the information is.

I like the idea of keeping things lightweight, but if I'm being pointed away to external sites for everything. Then it's mostly a 1kb webpage as opposed to a website.

I agree. The 512kB and 250kB clubs are better.

https://512kb.club/

https://250kb.club/

I’m pretty amazed that https://www.fullstackpython.com/ is in the 250kb club. It’s a whole book.

It seems to be separated into chapters.

It’s probably even worse. It’s 1kb plus a bunch of extra http requests and most likely some redirects and wasted time in between.

1kb is just not practical for pretty much anything.

There are websites that host games under X kilobytes, and they’re typically built using very clever tricks and techniques that you can learn from.

None of the sites in this 1kB club even attempt anything noteworthy.

For example, one of them just says “persons name, web hacker”. Wowee.

Unfortunately every link I clicked on existed purely for the purpose of being part of the 1kb club and appearing on that page.

It's probably the point of the concept.

I find interesting that most of pages take more than ~400ms to load on a new machine and 1G connection in Europe. Except the one at intercity-vpn.de one. I think after a point it's worth looking into serving from the edge than cutting size.

These are just lazy.

[Disclaimer warning: I appreciate that this discussion is a serious one and I would like to set some expectations about my contribution to it.] Disclaimer: I was aware of what this "club of singular kilobytes[^]" was prior to entering this forum and I had previously read the creator's blog post about it[0]. Considering my obvious biases, you probably don't need me to tell you to read the following report at your own discretion.

After reading some of the negative comments here, I followed the link and clicked on about 7 of the pages listed, each in a new tab such that the successive pages may load (at least in part) while I browse the others. What follows is my first hand account of the things I saw in those about 7 tabs.

I saw a bunch of simple (yet distinct) pages, most of which looked to be "business cards". There was text which was not only legible but of varied form and colour while remaining so. I found that some of them even had style, though nary a sheet was found!

[Here I must warn you: what follows is so sensational you may very well accuse me of tomfoolery. You have been warned.] Some of the about 7 pages I viewed gave me the impression that the people who made them were having fun, or at the very least enjoyed the creative process. One of them[1] lets you insert your own buzzword!

[^] kilo or kibi? does the club care? is 1kb 1024 or 1000 bytes? is a byte 8 bits long? big or little end? I don't know, I am not really a real web developer

[0] https://bt.ht/1kb/

[1] https://hi.gy/

how would big or little endian mess with 8 bits = 1 byte / sizing in general?

You're right that it wouldn't, of course.

You might be interested to know that I was also wrong to act as if there was an air of mystery surrounding the definition of '1kb'. It's readily apparent that the '1k' refers to 1024, as it always has when speaking of bytes, but also because the first (some would say only) sentence on the 1kb.club page helpfully spells out that 'kB' is short for 'kilobyte', and that a kilobyte is 1024 bytes.

No one even bothered to type a few lines of css to make things look worthy enough to call it a website.

Next up: 1byte.club

A club for websites that only show a single character, forget about the HTML doctype

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