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K-Sato • Edited

I think you guys are doing an excellent job explaining what it is in a very concise manner.

However, IMHO I thought the website took quite a while to load. As a matter of fact, the performance metric was not exactly high when I tested the site using lighthouse.
That being said, it is definitely not a deal-breaker or anything(I'm probably being too picky here). Just thought it could be a lot faster since it seems like a simple static site.

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Thomas Hansen

Thx K-Sato, we're painfully aware of it. We wanted something we had 100% perfectly control over, that was super "rich", allowing us to easily create "complex code", so we chose Angular, thinking "SSR would solve everything for us". However, as we started turning on SSR, we found several problems. One of these being performance, since the site becomes very large. Another being caching, which seems to be way too aggressive, making it almost impossible to have users see different content than whatever they saw at the site the first time. But we'll probably figure both of these issues out as we proceed. The site is very new and was just published a couple of days ago, and we're constantly improving on it :)

The site is slow, and we're working on it, and we'll probably be able to optimise it at least much more than the speed it's currently having ...

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Thomas Hansen

However, IMHO I thought the website took quite a while to load

Thank to you giving me a little bit of a "kick" the site loads twice as fast now. Thank you :)

(GZipping all content on the server)

We're still working on making it faster, but at least now it's not "extremely painfully" slow ...