[xp84]

I have to agree with the proposition that if you are aiming for the performant, no frills deal - and the aesthetic certainly telegraphs this - you really do not need client-side render, nor overengineered frontend frameworks like React & friends. Ditto for Styled Components (looks like you're not using the latter).

[johnisgood]

I agree. I like the website, looks minimal, but minimalism is not reflected in the stack.

[Semaphor]

The look only seems minimal as well. I need to zoom in to read, which eventually destroys the layout. A minimal website has at least basic accessibility by default, this uses some kind of "modern" styling stuff to ruin it.

[johnisgood]

Yeah, seems like everything just seems minimal, but not actually is.

[mb2100]

This. "No loading animations" works if you rely on the browser's loading indicators that all users will be familiar with.

@OP, if you're up for a rewrite of the frontend, happy to help you get started with https://mastrojs.github.io

[nektro]

haven't written up a show hn post yet but i launched this weekend a server app for git i built all in Zig[1]

[1]: https://astheno.software/shale/

demo site https://git.mirrors.nektro.net/