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Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by calibas »

moksha256 wrote: post #14
calibas wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add, I believe that's caused by rate limiting in Nginx.

Thanks, looks like it was at 1 per second...I just boosted it a bit. EDIT: boosted again...gosh, HN front page is no joke :D EDIT 2: I ran into multiple rate limits, some of which were harder to discover/configure than others. Site should be back again. Sorry.

Also, the rate limiting is probably meant to be based upon the client's IP, not the proxy IP. Usually, the proxy adds the client IPs to the request headers and you can use those in Nginx rules.

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by [deleted] »

throwaway894345 wrote: post #21
moksha256 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, looks like it was at 1 per second...I just boosted it a bit. EDIT: boosted again...gosh, HN front page is no joke :D EDIT 2: I ran into multiple rate limits, some of which were harder to discover/configure than others. Site should be back again. Sorry.

Seems like the host is down altogether for me.

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Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by cbanek »

I wish I could see - I love this idea. Although sometimes I look at newspapers from a long time ago to see what was being talked about. A lot of times it's the little things that are the most interesting. Those things that we thought were huge but ended up being flops or "I wonder what happened to those guys..."

I think sometimes seeing how much of a kerfuffle we made out of past current events can help you realize that time does go on, and things and people were that crazy back then too.

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by flubert »

minikites wrote: post #4

A post from 2015 about how the Earth is flat is just as disingenuous as a post from 2020 about how the Earth is flat. I'm not sure how this is supposed to lead to automatically thoughtful discourse.

Can't thoughtful discourse begin on a topic that is wrong, discussing why it is wrong? For example, I'd love to see a critique of what is wrong with:

http://alternativephysics.org/book/GPSmythology.htm

...which makes the claim that you don't need to correct for relativistic effects for GPS to work correctly. I don't see an immediate, obvious flaw in his thinking, so I think it would be great to have as a conversation starter with someone more knowledgeable.

In fact, thinking about it more, doesn't stack overflow essentially depend on people being wrong and needing correction?

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by headmelted »

moksha256 wrote: post #2

I created Hystoria as an experiment to see if blocking out current events can lead to more thoughtful discourse. --- Hystoria is a simple, reddit-like site (built with a simplified version of Lemmy [0]) where only items older than 5 years can be posted. I've been obsessed with media dynamics for years now, always wondering what variables can be adjusted within the current environment to result in better media product…

You should fire this behind CloudFlare or a general cache provider immediately. Get the settings for Nginx figured out later, you don’t want to miss your moment on the front page..

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

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Post by pmiller2 »

moksha256 wrote: post #2

I created Hystoria as an experiment to see if blocking out current events can lead to more thoughtful discourse. --- Hystoria is a simple, reddit-like site (built with a simplified version of Lemmy [0]) where only items older than 5 years can be posted. I've been obsessed with media dynamics for years now, always wondering what variables can be adjusted within the current environment to result in better media product…

I love the concept, but I don't know if 5 years is even enough time for people to have gotten over current events. If you made it 20+ years, I suspect that would work better.

In any case, good luck, and I hope I'm wrong. :-)

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