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It flopped everywhere I promoted it, but it is still online since I am on free tier of the host service.
If anyone wants to check it:
Yeah wordpress doesnt scale. hug of death
you couldn’t be more wrong. wordpress is one of the easiest apps to scale, put a varnish in front of it as you mostly have static content. you can go even further, move the comments to an external tool and you can have a very long cache.
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…
The latency idea actually makes a lot of sense
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…
2 weeks seems unnecessarily extreme to me though, even 24h would probably be enough to severely limit the flame potential. It would also potentially mean that one could have a daily routine of checking for the new content and replies and writing your own stuff and you're good to go for the day.
Although to really be effective I think it'd have to work on a global tick (i.e., all new content is published once a day at a certain time). Otherwise the new content would still slowly drip continuously and you'd still have the addictive nature of social networks.
At this point I'm sort of reinventing a collaborative version of a newspaper.
I wonder what sorts of social media we'd see if it wasn't dependent on selling ads. The need to drive engagement and sell things to people tends to limit the types of social media. It's nice to see an experiment like this but I don't know if it will go anywhere. I was thinking the other day of an idea where you take turns with people in your circle to become a 'star' for a period of time(day, days, week, hour, whatev…
I like this idea. For a while, "day in the life of a ____" posts were very popular on imgur, and I really enjoyed it, even though they were strangers.
The downside I figure might be that after someone's star-time, they get a lot of incoming attention, which then fades out. Some people might react quite well to that and others quite poorly, so I figure you'd need a set of other functions (say, blast-from-the-past auto-regurgiations, or week-delayed emails as suggested in another post here) to mitigate that and help people of various social proclivities all feel comfortable.
I miss letter writing. When you'd sit down and put real thought into it because you'd know it would be the only time you'd communicate for the next week or two. Or even tape swapping -- my dad and uncle used to mail tapes back and forth, hour-long audio rambles because it was more fun than the written word. Every tape started with a delay to make sure the leader was past the head, then the "pk-ssht" of a beer can being opened....
Yeah wordpress doesnt scale. hug of death
you couldn’t be more wrong. wordpress is one of the easiest apps to scale, put a varnish in front of it as you mostly have static content. you can go even further, move the comments to an external tool and you can have a very long cache.
The gp isn't "wrong": putting Varnish in front of WP is a possible solution to the fact WP doesn't scale, not a disproof of the fact.
Furthermore it's a highly limited solution: WP is only static if you limit it's use to its static features, and configuring Varnish for the unholy mess of 3rd-party dynamic/interactive/form-handling WP plugins is nightmare territory.
Wordpress doesn't scale.
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…
Practical effect was a roughly 24-48 (or more) hour wait for responses. Didn't stop bickering though. I was quite young at the time. Asked some question about a game. The first response was fairly hostile. Which started an argument. My first time flamed online, and my first online argument. Which went very slowly.
Still, slow social media would be interesting. I kinda like the FidoNet model. Where syncing only happens once a day. Maybe only at a set time overnight. Faster than snailmail but you have the full day to type out your response about why Ultima V did not suck as your opponent claimed. With the ability to submit a post any time, but also with the ability to edit it until sync. I think it would encourage long posting more than the current systems. Which may or may not be a good thing.
Interesting idea, but what's stopping someone from creating a second account?
This is in contrast to my twitter account, which is such a mess that I don't like posting b/c "most" people who will see it followed me for some other topic.