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Whatever you think of the site itself, this is prime HN content. A kid in high school starts a site that scales to 1,000,000 registered users while working on it during nights and weekends in college. If the founder is on here, what tech stack did you use and how long had you been programming before you built it?
Whatever you think of the site itself, this is prime HN content. A kid in high school starts a site that scales to 1,000,000 registered users while working on it during nights and weekends in college. If the founder is on here, what tech stack did you use and how long had you been programming before you built it?
(not the founder!) Looks like it's built on ColdFusion
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The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what the loudest dumbest users want vs all else.
> The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what the loudest dumbest users want vs all else. I'm not on X, so I don't know, but IME on every other place on the internet since forever is that the loudest, dumbest users ARE the advertisers. An environment that monetarily rewards users pushing their message into other peoples faces performs an environmental selection to make the advertisers the loudest an…
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While I disagree with the parent I personally think Discord is great. I've been on IRC for over 30 years and Discord is what I always imagined IRC 2.0 would be like.
What, owned by a single company and monetised within an inch of it’s life?
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How often do you login? What makes it sticky for you?
I stay logged in almost all the time. I wanted some place where I felt like I could blog freely, and one that _felt_ like a blog instead of some ad-ridden mess. It was partially the customisation aspect that drew me in at the beginning, having that much control over my profile (even if it was just basic HTML and CSS with some JS) reminded me of what I loved about being online. I have a personal website and don't real…
Please let this go viral, it's about time to make social media great again
Anyone here tired of social media? I’m almost 40. Just curious of my age group.
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> Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it I dislike every single one of discord's design decisions, I think the software is garbage, and it is riddled with security problems. Their customer service is a nightmare, a hacker got one of my friends accounts and even though he'd paid up for some kind of Discord extra service for more than 2 years in advan…
>Their customer service is a nightmare Having customer service would be a step up. >>We banned your account for illegal activity. >But I just signed up and tried logging in? >>After review we have banned your IP forever for illegal activity.
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What makes it appalling? You can press ctrl + K to jump to any channel from anywhere. Feels snappy.
> Feels snappy. I wonder if this is just everyone else using it on massive gamer PCs and me using it on mobile/chromebook, but .. no. It it is not snappy. The process of fetching all the new messages and rendering them takes up to a second. I don't understand why people who insist on 60fps games are happy with a 1fps chat app, but I guess they don't have that experience.
First, let me say I admire the successful effort to revive a piece of the 2000s web and wish the project the best. Having said that, I am of the right age to have been on MySpace, and exploring Spacehey gave me a better understanding of why I wasn't on MySpace. The focus of the site is on you and who you are. It's about presenting your many overlapping identities with style. Your interests and creative output are sec…
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(not the founder!) Looks like it's built on ColdFusion
Wait, that still exists / still gets used for new projects today? Wow, I'm feeling teleported back to the 2000s.