Good stuff. Optimising code for speed and memory efficiency is not easy, so those improvements are very impressive. We need the Hive sites to be responsive as people are used to that these days. Some of us remember waiting ages for images to download over a modem, but now fast connections are standard and some may give up if a site takes more than a few seconds to refresh.
Keep up the good work.
I remember the awful noises of my dial up modem connecting to the internet lol then my mom picking up the phone and screwing it all up! Do you remember Walmart having an internet software? Lol that’s what we were using since it was free.
Back then you could tell the browser not to download images to start with and then watch them appear line by line. Fun days. I used Compuserve for a while and various other UK services. One called Freeserve was popular as you just paid for the phone calls. I ended up getting a second just for the computer, which was an Amiga back then.