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Re: Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects

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That's a good point. How does one rate limit correctly in that case?

Rate limiting by data UUID might actually be pretty effective. I should add that to patchbay.pub.

That might be an issue if someone is using it to deliver lets say settings json and multiple users try to request the file.

Re: Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects

#72
I think this is really nice and smart. I would suggest left-aligning the text in the edit/view mode for a few reasons:

1) It's a bit easier to read for longer text sources 2) It makes writing/reading JSON/YAML/other data sources much easier 3) lists are much easier to parse

Re: Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects

#73

Whoever made this, I love you. I do a lot of prototyping in Framer, and this just make simple prototypes that communicate with one another hell of a lot easier!

You may also like this super simple MQ I wrote a while ago: https://www.stavros.io/posts/messaging-for-your-things/

+1

A handy substitute for mqtt since it doesn't allow a simple http get/post method to set and query keys - something very useful with iot stuff!

Re: Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects

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Adding it to the homepage would be cool too ^^

How would you phrase it? "write only link here"? I really wanna keep the basic information visible and am not sure about about adding another line

i meant under "Access your data with:" something like "Or read old link:"

but you're right it can be discovered

Re: Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects

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Is there a maximum file size limit?

This was answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23949917

"There currently isn't, but it is intended for small amounts of data. Today or tomorrow I'll probably put a cap at 500Kb or so, which is still a heckload of data."

Re: Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects

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Thanks 8), rate limiting is just the most basic of nginx configs to like, 10 requests / second / ip

Really simple cool! One minor thing on the IP rate limiting side.... LOTS of mobile/cell users might end up NAT'ed behind a single IP. Just an FYI.

wellllll there's no GREAT answer. Usuallllllyyy this is why some lightweight authentication is a good idea? Some kind of TGT/token scheme, and then rate limit based on that? But does make it all a little less "just works"

Re: Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects

#77

One more question: Does the data expire?

Nope, especially seeing the current usage / data size I think it's perfectly fine to hang around forever. I may eventually implement something to clean up data with no reads for > 1 month, but again so far it looks fine to leave things around.

Re: Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects

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I think this is really nice and smart. I would suggest left-aligning the text in the edit/view mode for a few reasons: 1) It's a bit easier to read for longer text sources 2) It makes writing/reading JSON/YAML/other data sources much easier 3) lists are much easier to parse

I have added an option in the data view to customize text alignment, thanks for the good idea

Re: Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects

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Very cool! Do you have any sort of dashboard displaying stats for the service? Simple totals would be interesting, of course (size, # of buckets, # of edits, etc.), but I'd find histograms of edits etc. per bucket particularly fascinating.

I don't yet, but let me get back to you in a couple days. I think it'd be interesting to all.

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