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by mard 2153 days ago
I'm not impressed. Wiki.js is supposedly "built with performance in mind", but its documentation wiki [1] is much slower than any DokuWiki site I could find [2]. It also requires JavaScript to be enabled in the web browser.

[1]: https://docs.requarks.io/

[2]: https://www.dokuwiki.org/

2 comments

I find it really frustrating that every piece of software nowadays claims to be "blazing fast" or "built for performance", usually with no benchmarks to back it up. Makes it really hard to tell at a glance what the strengths of a project actually are. I honestly would be very grateful if a project up and said "we're not the fastest, but we trade performance for a simpler codebase and easier extensibility. If you need to do some-performance-intensive-task, try other-package instead".
I also don't like their theme choice, especially the "Table of Contents" is fixed and wasteful, and combined with navigation column they used 40% of the screen wide. I can't concentrate to the content because the other half is distracting.