tl-dr: I confess to feeling a bit crotchety at present. The thin skinned and easily offended may want to bail now.
@volanar Thanks for the link. It further confirms just how fsck'd up Discourse is. Here is what I view when I click on your URL immediately up post:
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Now is not that special? (Yeah, I mayhaps shoulda, woulda, coulda cropped that but thought I let y'all regale in the hipness of all that glorious white space.) Were I to take a screenshot of uMatrix detailed breakdown we'd see 116 calls to various media, css, scripts, etc. hosted on Cloudflare. Hell, I guess in interest of full disclosure I need to break it down, lest the forest become lost for the trees:
Scripts: 57
CSS: 43
Images: 2
Yippie skippie! You're really rockin' Cloudflare! ๐ ๐
Mayhaps this just may be related to why Discourse is slowest of the slow, as evidenced a bit up post ๐ฉ ๐ฝ
@onur-baran said in Which is better NodeBB or Discourse?:
Google Pagespeed Scores:
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And as for this query:
@volanar said in Which is better NodeBB or Discourse?:
@omega and how do you explain this?
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I don't. Rather I chalk it up to a bunch of dumb as a post lamer's lacking the capacity for critical analysis that have been "getting by" all their lives via group think, following the herd and going w/whatever is hip on CIO this month. An unfortunate testament to just how lazy we've become. Oh, poor you! You don't have a one click install!! Cry me a river! ๐ข ๐ข ๐ข
Well, snowflakes, thank that gods that you do NOT have to actually compile AND configure all your myriad sordid dependencies from source as prerequisite for even dreaming about running on your platform. Yeah, there was a day when Linux really did suck in this regard. But I digress w/the venting. Let's get back to some cold facts, Jack:
Can Cloudflare Actually Hurt Your Websiteโs SEO? (Case Study)
Why you shouldnโt use Cloudflare
Stop Using Cloudflare CDN for Low Traffic Websites
That last is really a gas! How many low traffic sites do you know that use cloudflare? Why do they use it? More oft than not it has not one thing to do with technical merit/analysis and everything to do with following the herd. It has been said that perception is nine tenths of reality. At least until reality rears its ugly head.
Note: I did my research on Cloudflare many years back and hence never bothered employing it for any of my personal hole in the wall projects. Shout out to @omega for the more updated links shared during recent private discussions.
Rock on NodeBB! ๐ธ
