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Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

#41

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> regardless of on-prem, cloud X, Y or Z Are you speaking from experience? Because my experience with k8s is far from that.

Yes. Our on-prem works a lot like GKE, for users the difference is negligible.

That's great. Glad someone is having that experience.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

#42
THE SITE IS BACK UP! (I can't edit the title.)

Credit to the extremely kind Antoine Grondin @ Github for helping sort it out! You can find him here: https://twitter.com/antoinegrondin?lang=en to say thank you

Also thank you to everyone who reached out to try to help me with my server issues :)

P.S. If a mod sees this and could edit the title that would be great.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

#43

Ah, the ol' HN hug of death. For future reference (and I haven't been able to access the site yet, so this may or may not be relevant to Taaalk), if the site has a landing page, make it with static files, and put it behind a CDN or just use a free service like Netlify. Put the actual app behind a subdomain which you can then host however you want. This way, people who visit can still check out what the service does a…

THE SITE IS BACK UP!

(I can't edit the title.)

Credit to the extremely kind Antoine Grondin @ Github for helping sort it out! You can find him here: https://twitter.com/antoinegrondin?lang=en to say thank you

Also thank you to everyone who reached out to try to help me with my server issues :)

P.S. If a mod sees this and could edit the title that would be great.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

#44

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This is why standardized solutions like K8s are necessary (or at least a managed container platform). Right now we have no idea about your stack or how it is hosted. With containers it wouldn't have mattered. And with K8s it would have been a simple `kubectl scale deploy/taaalk --replicas 10` regardless of on-prem, cloud X, Y or Z.

The guy has a single web app. Not sure using kubernetes would make it easier.

AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run are pretty easy to use for a single web app.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

#45

Ah, the ol' HN hug of death. For future reference (and I haven't been able to access the site yet, so this may or may not be relevant to Taaalk), if the site has a landing page, make it with static files, and put it behind a CDN or just use a free service like Netlify. Put the actual app behind a subdomain which you can then host however you want. This way, people who visit can still check out what the service does a…

THE SITE IS BACK UP! (I can't edit the title.) Credit to the extremely kind Antoine Grondin @ Github for helping sort it out! You can find him here: https://twitter.com/antoinegrondin?lang=en to say thank you Also thank you to everyone who reached out to try to help me with my server issues :) P.S. If a mod sees this and could edit the title that would be great.

> P.S. If a mod sees this and could edit the title that would be great.

I believe the best way to get a hold of the moderators is via email, at hn@ycombinator.com

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

#46

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THE SITE IS BACK UP! (I can't edit the title.) Credit to the extremely kind Antoine Grondin @ Github for helping sort it out! You can find him here: https://twitter.com/antoinegrondin?lang=en to say thank you Also thank you to everyone who reached out to try to help me with my server issues :) P.S. If a mod sees this and could edit the title that would be great.

> P.S. If a mod sees this and could edit the title that would be great. I believe the best way to get a hold of the moderators is via email, at hn@ycombinator.com

Thank you, I sent them an email

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

#47
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With less architecture work: enable local caching of the front page/resources on your nginx/apache/whatever. They should be able to ride the HN wave on almost any hardware.

For static websites you don't even need that. The OS disk cache kicks in and it becomes more about bandwidth than disk performance.

I meant for the generated content. You don't need to nginx-cache the static files of course. Just anything that actually hits the app server.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

#48

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Hey, I came across yours. It's got a lot of features. How is traction going?

Thanks. I like the idea that you converse and archive conversations there itself. Its great for real life conversations and maybe meaningful conversations. About the traction, getting users has been hard. I made some mistakes in the beginning, I targeted the wrong audience. I got wrong feedback from family, friends, co-workers etc. Then I started cold messaging readers and writers on other writing platforms. From the…

Want to have a Taaalk about running a side project? I have a few other side project people interested in a Taaalk like that.

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#49

I picked a conversation at random https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things This started off with a question about a background image, and the answer had a lot of detail opening up many threads of possible conversations. This seems like something that happens pretty regularly, but also something that the format of linear text isn't well suited for. This is a problem for both essays and conversations. The…

Sounds like Reddit or HN comment sections. Both form trees of comments, some of which end up becoming long chains.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

#50

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> P.S. If a mod sees this and could edit the title that would be great. I believe the best way to get a hold of the moderators is via email, at hn@ycombinator.com

Thank you, I sent them an email

Edited now. Welcome back.
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