Show HN: NimForum – A lightweight alternative to Discourse

Nim is awesome - the programming language, the community, and the emerging ecosystem. Live example, for discussing the Nim programming language: https://forum.nim-lang.org/ ; Dominik Picheta (dom96), the main author of NimForum, is one of the core Nim language developers and is one of the people making the Nim community so awesome. Thanks, Dom. The Nim developers practice dogfooding, and NimForum is one result of that practice. I haven't had much mileage with this new version (the actual Nim forum was…

Because this is coming from nim and nim design goals are to be efficient and elegant I can not help but notice the excessive bloat. The main forum page is 4MB of data (~700kb compressed) to basically communicate 3KB of information (plus avatar images which should not be more than few kb total anyway). This is still better than original Discourse which for this same thing needs 6MB of data (1.2MB compressed). However Discourse does not claim to be efficient…

Forum software is much needed. All alternatives out there are PHP -- and Discourse, which is way too heavy. This seems as lean and fast as possible. I liked it.