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Ironic that a post about Threads backend is hosted on twitter.
Threads is a mobile-only app, like Instagram. You can't actually use Threads on a desktop browser, so that's probably why this is shared as a Twitter post. Even if it were a Threads post, it would not be submittable to HN.
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A fair point that it's stupid to implement a mostly plain text publishing site that doesn't support linking to any of the text published there. Edit: Someone kindly pointed out that you can see the content in the browser without an account from following a direct link. (You just can't have the app installed or it will open that and drop you on the login page.) This makes me a lot happier with the product!
You can’t link to threads? By design? I was seriously considering trying it out, but if there’s no search engine visibility, there’s no point. Most of the searches for my real name pull up tweets. Hopefully it’s just a missing feature that will be added later. Even TikToks are linkable, and those have very little google visibility.
Edit: Someone kindly pointed out that you can see the content in the browser without an account from following a direct link. (You just can't have the app installed or it will open that and drop you on the login page.) This makes me a lot happier with the product!
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A fair point about what? Threads is out for less than a day, I have 8 followers there so far. I originally posted this information on Mastodon, actually: https://mastodon.social/@ambv/110665808046065754 However, I have a much larger following on Twitter, so it was the tweet that got picked up by someone here on HN. We'll see how this looks like in twelve months.
A fair point that it's stupid to implement a mostly plain text publishing site that doesn't support linking to any of the text published there. Edit: Someone kindly pointed out that you can see the content in the browser without an account from following a direct link. (You just can't have the app installed or it will open that and drop you on the login page.) This makes me a lot happier with the product!
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> Threads is a mobile-only app, like Instagram Instagram can be used in a desktop browser just fine.
Let's imagine that I don't have an Instagram account because I don't. (I never really understood it because it just felt like a slightly differently flavored Facebook and I already had a Facebook account.) Up until this weekend, I could simply view a Twitter post regardless of whether I had an account. And while I've never been much of a Twitter user, I did find that useful as a lot of local news and weather type stu…
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Threads is a mobile-only app, like Instagram. You can't actually use Threads on a desktop browser, so that's probably why this is shared as a Twitter post. Even if it were a Threads post, it would not be submittable to HN.
Not exactly true. They have a read-only browser view. In fact a Thread thread has already been on the front of HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609632
Still, mostly true.. read-only is just dumb. Nice to be back in 2008, when mobile-first turned into mobile-only.
The entire point of this thread was that this is a Python/Django web app, but it's not actually a web app at all, so what's the point of pointing out any of this?
Always the same people that get their names in the news. I would say that the amount of tweaks that prop up Python is no cause for celebration.
Yet here it is ... powering a global scale app. Too weak for someones hobby project, strong enough for global scale.
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Threads is a mobile-only app, like Instagram. You can't actually use Threads on a desktop browser, so that's probably why this is shared as a Twitter post. Even if it were a Threads post, it would not be submittable to HN.
Chill it's been in development for like 6 months and they wanted it to scale to 10M users. I'm sure a web interface is on the roadmap.
Really, all the performance intensive parts are in various c++ aggregator and recommendation type services. But the webserver is Django, yes.
Why would they use Django? I did some small projects in it but I assumed it wasn't very fast and wouldn't be suitable for a big app like this. I would like to know the pros and cons. Why didn't they build up something in C++ or Rust? Won't python limit the speed of responses despite being build the hard stuff in compiled languages? Sorry for being so naive, I am an amateur.