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by jimbisenius 1925 days ago
Covered this below in a comment, but figured I'd add it again - unfortunately, you're right (for now).

We've been adding features in left and right on demand and just haven't had time to optimize profile delivery yet since it hasn't been in high-demand, but that's next on our roadmap.

We're about to add in our one-click export to static, which will cut out all the existing Javascript on the page and optimize all assets before delivery, and then trigger re-builds on every change to your site. This will cut out the bloat you're seeing now.

TLDR: You're right, it's unnecessary. But we're actively fixing this! :)

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Just want to say thanks for responding to this message. It's really nice to see how you replied and explained your roadmap. It shows you're really interested in making this work
Comments like these make my day, I'm always happy to respond :)

And it's a very reasonable concern. Admittedly, I get ~2mbps/down at home so it takes a bit to load and I'd been surprised that nobody else had commented on this until today. I've pushed it to the top of our v2.2 roadmap so it's our highest immediate focus now (will have a fix within a week).

Just trying to build this one step at a time wherever the community takes it!

Another bit of feedback: You have external links, such as the deep linking one [1] and it'd be great (and expected behavior) to have those open in a new tab rather than open in the current tab and lost my in-progress work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking

Followup: I created a test and clicked the preview link and it shows "page not found". Not sure if it's because it takes a while or what, but if so then there should be a note somewhere about that. Also I have no idea how to publish this thing. I'd expect the publish option to be somewhere near the preview link. I then checked settings to see if it'd be in there for some reason but nope. However I did see the detail information. Honestly I think this should be the first screen and given a different name (possibly just "Details") since I wouldn't really classify these things as Settings. If I wasn't poking around I would have just assumed you weren't able to change these details because of that.

I see there's a "tour" option, but just wanted to let you know my reactions based on intuition since that's what most people will be going off of.

Oops!! Wouldn't want that to happen... I'll go ahead and fix this tomorrow, it's super simple. Thanks for letting me know!
Thanks! I also just updated my comment with some additional feedback.
10/10 feedback, thank you!

So by default, pages come unpublished (so it says page not found), but recently the suggestion has been made to publicize pages by default and we're think that would be a big help here, but we'll also reconsider moving the publish select to a button near your profile link. In the meantime you can update the "Visibility" under "Settings" (I also agree this would be better as details), but admittedly it's a bit mislabeled and without any tour or onboarding it's easy to see why it's hard to find. I'll take a good look at how it can be improved this over the next week.

Let me know if you have any more feedback, this was super helpful!