I read HN a lot, this topic always comes up so I said
“I’m going to build a site that makes these readers happy. Take all their advice, no JS at all. Everything done in HTML. Everything they’re asking for”
Turns out the hardest thing to do is to get people to use your site.
I wrote a post very similar to this comment that you might be interested in reading. I broke down what takes time to load, how fast the browser determines something has loaded, and how fast the user can perceive the page loading. I ended up having to take a high speed video and measure frame by frame the time it took to load for user perception.
Builder here, I read a lot of HN posts about blogging and I took all that feedback and built a site based on everything I've been reading about. I hope you check it out and let me know if you have any questions, Thanks!
It goes to a central server, similar to Dropbox, except when I built the service 8 years ago it was a little more open than Dropbox and it was accessible through the command line.
I built something that was useful for me, 32,000 other people have found it useful as well, let me know if you have other questions as well. Thanks for checking it out!