surprisingly... boring?
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#12Please only continue if you are an adult? You realize Wikipedia has no age restrictions right...
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#13Man wikipedia is full of trash
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#14Man wikipedia is full of trash
human history*
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#15Please fix the loading issue and I’ll return! I think you don’t need to pull all the data at initialization, you could lazily grab a couple from each category and just keep doing it as people scroll.
The loading issue is just a hug of death, the site's currently getting multiple visitors per second, and that requires more than a gigabit of bandwidth to handle.
I sort of need to pull all the data at the initialization because I need to map out how every post affects every other - the links between posts are what take up majority of the storage, not the text inside the posts. It's also kind of the only way to preserve privacy.
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#16An issue I have with these apps that claim to be for doomscrolling is that you don't open apps like Instagram or Facebook to doomscroll, you open them to check messages or stories. The doomscrolling is an afterthought. These things assume you can realize you're doomscrolling and not only break out of it, but choose to hypnotize yourself in their app.
This could be a product. I'd pay for an app that fwd'd messages from other apps and gave me a wikipedia feed to scroll on the elevator / other places where the phone is a social respite
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#17If you load it in Chrome, it loads MUCH faster
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#18This is a very neat idea. I am not sure why the page needs to load 40mb of data and make me wait 5 mins before the first view. I'd probably also add some ranking criteria to surface good quality articles that maximize the "I learnt something new today" factor. Overall kudos to the developer for original thinking.
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#19Please fix the loading issue and I’ll return! I think you don’t need to pull all the data at initialization, you could lazily grab a couple from each category and just keep doing it as people scroll.
The loading issue is just a hug of death, the site's currently getting multiple visitors per second, and that requires more than a gigabit of bandwidth to handle. I sort of need to pull all the data at the initialization because I need to map out how every post affects every other - the links between posts are what take up majority of the storage, not the text inside the posts. It's also kind of the only way to prese…
I feel very strongly that you should be able to serve hundreds or thousands of requests at gbps speeds.
Why are you serving so much data personally instead of just reformatting theirs?
Even if you're serving it locally...I mean a regular 100mbit line should easily support tens or hundreds of text users...
What am I missing?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The loading issue is just a hug of death, the site's currently getting multiple visitors per second, and that requires more than a gigabit of bandwidth to handle. I sort of need to pull all the data at the initialization because I need to map out how every post affects every other - the links between posts are what take up majority of the storage, not the text inside the posts. It's also kind of the only way to prese…
I feel very strongly that you should be able to serve hundreds or thousands of requests at gbps speeds. Why are you serving so much data personally instead of just reformatting theirs? Even if you're serving it locally...I mean a regular 100mbit line should easily support tens or hundreds of text users... What am I missing?
> Why are you serving so much data personally instead of just reformatting theirs?
Because then you only need to download 40MB of data and do minimal processing. If you were to take the dumps off of Wikimedia, you would need to download 400MB of data and do processing on that data that would take minutes of time.
And also it's kind of rude to hotlink a half a gig of data on someone else's site.
> What am I missing?
40MB per second is 320mbps, so even 3 visitors per second maxes out a gigabit connection.