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Our pages look good, thanks for approaching this with care!

The only concern I have is the 5120 character limit, which was previously uncapped for jam pages. I know this is now consistent with profile and project pages, but I imagine that change will break many more jam templates than other changes this update has made!

Hosts may not even realize they're over that limit until they try making an update, and their now "squatted" character count will be revealed as a violation...

Is there a chance that your team would be willing (or able) to uncap the CSS character limit for jam pages?

Otherwise, I know I have a lot of unexpected cleanup and consolidation/style-sacrifice work to do...

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leafoAdmin11 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks for pointing that out, I didn’t realize the limit changed. Previously there was no limit, but we’ll need one going forward. For jams I updated it to 20kb, hopefully that’s enough for you.

Based on my analysis, large CSS blobs are mostly embedded fonts and images.

Now that Google Fonts, hopefully it’s not required to embed fonts directly into the CSS for most hosts.

I think having a generic image upload tool for themes would be a good next step.

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HyperGameDev11 days ago

No problem, I really appreciate the quick turnaround!

I've stripped whitespace, comments, and a couple redundancies but am still sitting around 30kb. I hate to push, but would 32kb be an acceptable cap?

It's mostly overrides that reposition and restyle the countdown, header tabs, submit/join panels, and stat blocks. It's turned into a delicate balancing act to keep everything together on both desktop and mobile. I can squeeze it smaller by fully minifying, but that makes the responsive tuning pretty brittle to maintain.

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leafoAdmin10 days ago

Mind sharing which jam so I can take a closer look?

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HyperGameDev10 days ago

Not at all, here's the last one (voting period): https://itch.io/jam/gamelike-jam-009
And current: https://itch.io/jam/gamelike-jam-010

The navbar at the bottom takes up a good amount of CSS too!

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HyperGameDev6 days ago

Hi again,

Have you thought any more about bumping the limit up to 32k or so?

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