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Yeah wordpress doesnt scale. hug of death
I don't like Wordpress either, but correctly configured it's not that much worse than a static site.
And if you want to go further you can bypass that stub and serve the static pages directly from your web server.
Best of both worlds, really.
It's neat but seems ephemeral. Maybe that's the point. I had a not similar but related idea, basically borne from my hatred of Twitter. Basically, you'd only be able to make a comment if you have a credit. Credits would be time based, probably 1 or 2 a day. The only other way to get credits is if the person you replied to likes your comment. Basically, the idea being to quit getting people being so controversial and…
Token bucket! But perhaps a microtransaction system would also fit neatly in your scenario. >:)
It's neat but seems ephemeral. Maybe that's the point. I had a not similar but related idea, basically borne from my hatred of Twitter. Basically, you'd only be able to make a comment if you have a credit. Credits would be time based, probably 1 or 2 a day. The only other way to get credits is if the person you replied to likes your comment. Basically, the idea being to quit getting people being so controversial and…
This product seems to combine a few unrelated ideas. No monetization, reverse-chronological feed, no notifications: sweet. Easier to have cleaner, more meaningful conversations with people, hopefully. In short, a nicer, ad-free, less-harmful Facebook. How will you pay for it if it ever gets popular? I'm not sure how limited posts play into this. I think the intention is to make users really think about what they're p…
I do like the idea that the platform can actively disrupt the "addictive" patterns that develop elsewhere. Other things I've wanted:
- Instagram with an ML layer that auto-rejects pics with faces or text. Landscapes, vistas, animals, architecture etc all would be welcome.
- high latency Twitter, where no post is viewable until at least 2 weeks after it's published. Bickering threads become impractical. People learn to post stuff that will be worth caring about later.
- Clearly just for entertainment and not information Facebook alternative, in which GPT bots produce a significant fraction of posts, impersonating users and making stuff up. Everyone quickly learns you can't trust it, but it can still be cute/fun/humorous.
It's neat but seems ephemeral. Maybe that's the point. I had a not similar but related idea, basically borne from my hatred of Twitter. Basically, you'd only be able to make a comment if you have a credit. Credits would be time based, probably 1 or 2 a day. The only other way to get credits is if the person you replied to likes your comment. Basically, the idea being to quit getting people being so controversial and…
I like that time-based mechanism much better. The karma/engagement-based stuff would just let popular people post more :)
It's neat but seems ephemeral. Maybe that's the point. I had a not similar but related idea, basically borne from my hatred of Twitter. Basically, you'd only be able to make a comment if you have a credit. Credits would be time based, probably 1 or 2 a day. The only other way to get credits is if the person you replied to likes your comment. Basically, the idea being to quit getting people being so controversial and…
I like that time-based mechanism much better. The karma/engagement-based stuff would just let popular people post more :)
Example. A -I released this tool!
B - Wow nice how long did that take
A - Thanks, 6 months.
At this point, the conversation is done unless both like each other's comment, which in such an exchange would be encouraged.
If C comes along and says 'this tool sucks', even if 50 people like it, if A doesn't, C is done commenting for the day.
In fairness, I haven't really thought the whole thing out in detail, just some rough ideas. I appreciate pointing out challenges and dislikes with it though.
I love this as an idea, but I suspect as a user, I would use either zero or one posts. I do like the idea that the platform can actively disrupt the "addictive" patterns that develop elsewhere. Other things I've wanted: - Instagram with an ML layer that auto-rejects pics with faces or text. Landscapes, vistas, animals, architecture etc all would be welcome. - high latency Twitter, where no post is viewable until at l…
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I don't like Wordpress either, but correctly configured it's not that much worse than a static site.
Correctly configured it is a static site with a minimal stub in PHP. And if you want to go further you can bypass that stub and serve the static pages directly from your web server. Best of both worlds, really.
Maybe there's a 1001 plugins being used which means the Wordpress site has to make boatloads of requests to the backend. Many Wordpress sites make that mistake. I keep my plugin count to at least five plugins. And they're obviously plugins which I really need, and they're not chatty in any way.