Are emails visible to others users? (nice to know before u fill it out for possible password recovery)
Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
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Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#122Really nice, I appreciate that you don't use Google's ReCaptcha. Some suggestions if you're targeting privacy, remove third party assets and remove all JavaScript and add a Tor hidden service. People who are obsessed with privacy will run NoScript a lot of time.
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#123Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#124For a site focused on transparency and privacy, it's parked behind CloudFlare. I can't view the site past the about page without JS enabled and allowing CloudFlare to probe and track me. > Decentralized platforms are not an ideal solution for > internet communities. Hard disagree. Communities are about give and take, the early internet was driven by people hosting bulletin boards, IRC servers, web servers, etc. There…
>For a site focused on transparency and privacy, it's parked behind CloudFlare. I can't view the site past the about page without JS enabled and allowing CloudFlare to probe and track me. Unfortunately I have no choice in this regard. I do no have the means to resist any sort of ddos. I remember at one point you could set the 'cloudflare security level' to low, but when I looked in the UI today I could not find such…
> If there exists a solution to either not using cloudflare,
> or some option hidden away that allows me to tell clouflare
> o fuck off with how it treats traffic, I'd love to know.
The method I use to avoid CloudFlare altogether (probably wrong as it's bespoke) is to do the following before "handling" the request:
* Store all connecting IPs, last request time and the rate at which requests are being made in a serviced-buffer. If the request rate becomes too high, give them a timeout (return a very small page telling them to come back in a few minutes).
* If database hits are high, drop non-important requests first, starting with views, then up/down votes, comments and then user security. Views and votes can fail silently and most people won't be any of the wiser.
* If static content requests are high, drop generated content first, followed by large files (all JS, most CSS, images, etc). For the generated content, you can use a recently generic cached view.
* Lastly, if all else fails, just return a redirect to some static server hosted somewhere strong (like GitHub pages for example), explaining that demand is high at this current time.
This approach has worked for me so far. Under high load, you need to handle requests as soon as possible, even if it means not returning something. Holding onto a connection is what will sink your ship.
In general most sites seem to die because they spend too long dealing with individual requests. especially when the database is hit. As soon as you overload a WordPress database for example, it's screwed. And this is just for displaying content to the website!
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you just read the reinvented Delicious.
I’d once built a Reddit with tags (or a Delicious with votes) 12 years ago. Never really took off and I shuttered it after 2 years.
I think that could be useful in a corporate environment.
Did folk pollute the tags with nonsense?
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#126Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's only one admin, and he's literally never posted an alt-right opinion in my entire time on the site. You've been terribly misinformed, and now you're misinforming others.
Maybe mistaking it for voates?
That's a heck of a site to mix it up with if so. Their philosophies could not be more opposite.
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#128For a site focused on transparency and privacy, it's parked behind CloudFlare. I can't view the site past the about page without JS enabled and allowing CloudFlare to probe and track me. > Decentralized platforms are not an ideal solution for > internet communities. Hard disagree. Communities are about give and take, the early internet was driven by people hosting bulletin boards, IRC servers, web servers, etc. There…
>For a site focused on transparency and privacy, it's parked behind CloudFlare. I can't view the site past the about page without JS enabled and allowing CloudFlare to probe and track me. Unfortunately I have no choice in this regard. I do no have the means to resist any sort of ddos. I remember at one point you could set the 'cloudflare security level' to low, but when I looked in the UI today I could not find such…
By the way, sorry for sounding harsh. You've done a good job.
For lowering the costs of running, there are tonnes of pretty cheap options out there. I personally quite enjoy running my C1 instance at Scaleway [1], I get dedicated hardware, 4 ARM cores, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD (with the option of additional storage) and 200Mb/s external network.
The benefit of the C1 solution is that I can have it screaming 24/7 (mine instance really is) and the price is fixed. If you buy yourself a Raspberry Pi, you can do testing at home and then deploy your solution to the cloud with relative confidence.
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#129I think this "reddit-with-4chan-features" approach is more viable than 8chan's "4chan-with-reddit-features" approach, since I don't think the imageboard model is very compatible with the "community-run boards" feature. It's also a good thing that (it appears that) this website is "fresh" and apolitical rather than coming forth from a political rift in another community (e.g. 8chan, gab, voat). I'll definitely be foll…
>EDIT: I do have some problems with this rule: "Nothing that violates US law, or anything that would be considered 'gray area'." What is a 'gray area' is, itself, a gray area. I don't think the rule itself needs changing, but it would be good if it was supported by some examples of things that people might want to do but you won't allow. Loli/shota porn mainly. Other forms of borderline cp. The problem is, specifical…
>Loli/shota porn mainly
Consider my interest in the site nullified and your morals ridiculed.
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#130I had an idea for a minimal change to improve a Reddit-like site, perhaps you will find it interesting: split the concept of "subreddit" into "tags" and "communities". Tags: much of the content of Reddit is people reposting the same thing at various times to various subreddits, and many of the comments are people noticing that it fits into "r/whatever" instead. The default behavior should be that posts of the same li…
lobste.rs does the tagging part of that in a HN-esque style: https://lobste.rs/t/databases