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> Total size of all member websites combined: 169.4 MB

Apparently that is comparable to a single page load of digital ocean’s blog

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32076634

Did you try loading https://www.digitalocean.com/blog yourself and measure it? I just did, and saw it pulled down 4.28MB worth of stuff, which is way too high for a blog, but nowhere close to 169MB. Maybe there was a bug and they fixed it quickly?

If I load it in Safari and scroll to the bottom, it reports 27MB transferred with a 110MB total (decompressed) payload.

Looks like an error since most of the transfer is large JSON files that seem to be duplications of all of the content on the blog, but I only glanced.

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