New user experience

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I stumbled across this tool by accident and I decided to use it for my blog - the low level of dependencies was key and speed of build.

I am previously using gatsby and my experience with zola so far is excellent - I got started with the abridged theme and moving my markdown from gatsby was so easy - I needed to change front matter for search but didn’t have to change the content.

I need to amend the styling a little but amazed at how well this went so far. I have around 60 pages with images and code and it built in 3 seconds on my machine (WSL - 4 year old dell xps).

I’m liking the abridged theme too - this probably made the experience easier for me. I’m happy this is much less complicated than gatsby.

Thanks to developers for making my life easier.

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TBH 3s for 60 pages seem slow, is it doing some image resize/data loading?

I checked out Gatsby when it was released. As soon as I saw I had to use GraphQL, I noped out

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Yes I have images on most pages - now I’ve processed the build is down to 300ms

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