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		nickorlow 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social medi... Yeah, that's fair, though I'd think you can get a CDN/someone else to host the blob this for fairly cheap/free. Having too many users is a pretty good problem to have anyway!

nickorlow 20 days ago [–]

(Could have the client download the blob from where the repo is hosted on GitHub, which takes under a second for me to download: https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia/raw/refs/heads/mane/...)

rebane2001 19 days ago | [–]

I'd need to implement a js brotli decompressor, or make you download a file that's 5x bigger, to use that.

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