This would actually be really fun if built around social feature like curators who could quote-repost the posts, popular/trending sorting and a threaded comment system.
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#32Reminds one of Sesame Street - let’s put educational content in this new hyponotic medium!
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
no but...why are you passing 40mb from your server to my device in a lump like that? All I'm getting from your serve is a title, a sentence, and an image. Why not give me say the first 20 and start loading the next 20 when I reach the 10th? That way you're not getting hit with 40mb for every single click but only a couple of mb per click and a couple more per scroll for users that are actually using the service? Look…
> no but...why are you passing 40mb from your server to my device in a lump like that? Because you need all of the cross-article link data, which is the majority of the 40mb, to run the algorithm. The algorithm does not run on the server, because I care about both user privacy and internet preservation. Once the 40MB is downloaded, you can go offline, and the algorithm will still work. If you save the index.html and…
I believe in privacy but generally people are fine with rec algorithms running on a server if it's transparent enough/self hostable. Mastodon/DuckDuckGo/HN/etc all don't need to download a huge blob locally. (If you do want it to run locally, hosting the blob on a CDN or packaging this as an app and letting someone else host it would probably improve the experience a lot)
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#35How does it actually work? Can you add an "about" page that goes into the algo? Or can you add more info on the readme on github? I'd love to learn more.
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Why not…. Load it on demand?
That's my point. So confused. Got a ton of users clicking off because of this.
The point you're missing is that this website is actually a submarine ad for the domain, xikipedia.org, which the owner is probably trying to sell.
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#37This is really cool. And in only 500 lines of code is really impressive. I would have thought this was much more.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> no but...why are you passing 40mb from your server to my device in a lump like that? Because you need all of the cross-article link data, which is the majority of the 40mb, to run the algorithm. The algorithm does not run on the server, because I care about both user privacy and internet preservation. Once the 40MB is downloaded, you can go offline, and the algorithm will still work. If you save the index.html and…
I believe in privacy but generally people are fine with rec algorithms running on a server if it's transparent enough/self hostable. Mastodon/DuckDuckGo/HN/etc all don't need to download a huge blob locally. (If you do want it to run locally, hosting the blob on a CDN or packaging this as an app and letting someone else host it would probably improve the experience a lot)
Mastodon/HN do not have a personalized weighted algorithm. On HN you see what everyone else sees, and on Mastodon the feed is chronological. DuckDuckGo offers some privacy, but still sends your search queries to Bing.
Also, all three of the examples are projects that have years of dev effort and hosting infrastructure behind them - Xikipedia is a project I threw together in less than a day for fun, I don't want to put effort into server-side maintenance and upkeep for such a small project. I just want a static index.html I can throw in /var/www/ and forget.
And re: hosting, my bare metal box is fine. It's just slow right now because it's getting a huge spike of attention. I don't want to pay for a CDN, and I doubt I could host a file getting multiple gigabits per second of traffic for free.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's my point. So confused. Got a ton of users clicking off because of this.
The point you're missing is that this website is actually a submarine ad for the domain, xikipedia.org, which the owner is probably trying to sell.
That's a very silly claim considering I bought the domain the same day I released the project. I'm sure whoever would've been interested in buying the domain could've already swept it up for 10 bucks before me.
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#40Page crashed after downloading and extracting. On safari iPhone that’s a few years old, latest iOS. I was really interested in trying / why I waited
Ed: tried again it crashed at 66% loading (after 100% loading)