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Re: 1M Users

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Post by DiscourseFan »

inhumantsar wrote: post #119
networked wrote: post #109

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…

I suspect the world would be a bit better, or at least a bit less toxic, social media kept that primary focus on open expressions of identity rather than only the highlights from a person's work or art or daily life.

my work and art are more important than me

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Post by alex1138 »

lawgimenez wrote: post #21
idonov wrote: post #10

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.

I don't know how to interpret statements like this. In my mind there has to be a clear separation between problems individual platforms have (ie an algorithmic feed where you may or may not see what your friends actually post despite explicitly following them) and... the rest of the discussion. "Social media" (a very broad term) as a medium people dislike, well, that's individual. It means no matter how a platform does some people will always be against it. I don't understand that. I think the more important discussions to have are how we can improve specific sites

Re: 1M Users

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Post by nop_slide »

codethief wrote: post #112
ciaran_lee wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(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.

Peep this, I stumbled on it randomly last week and also was surprised that it still seems to be around and kicking. It’s basically a Rails for cold fusion lol.

https://www.coldbox.org/

Re: 1M Users

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Post by 4k93n2 »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #39
lawgimenez wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone here tired of social media? I’m almost 40. Just curious of my age group.

More angry than tired. To clarify: angry at Social Media rather than on it. FB was great in about 2010, but is now ridiculous and basically unusable. My wife is addicted to IG, and spends multiple hours each day scrolling the feed. My social life revolves around WA groups. I tried moving people to Signal but got few takers. I'm enjoying Mastodon at the moment. I'm scared that if I install TikTok I'll get addicted. I'…

zulip seems like a nice sweet spot between email and instant messaging apps, and maybe forums. ive havnt actually used it yet but its on my self hosting todo list

Re: 1M Users

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Post by password4321 »

codethief wrote: post #112
ciaran_lee wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(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.

"Well actually" a relevant discussion hit the front page yesterday:

Lucee: A light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language for the JVM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409434 - Aug 2024 (37 comments)

Re: 1M Users

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Post by password4321 »

pjc50 wrote: post #76
Sparkyte wrote: post #5

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When I saw this I was like ooh noes not myspace all over again. I feel this style may actually be a hinderance for adopting more users. People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it. It is like comparing Slack to Teams. It will be a long time before anything catches immediately up to Slack or Discord…

> Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good Discord as a text chat app is appalling . Whether on mobile, chromebook or desktop PC it's slow and janky to transition between channels. It is a measurably worse user experience than using IRC on a computer from twenty years ago with 1,000x less raw MIPS. Maybe it has some advantages for voice chat, but to me it's a lowest common denominator we use bec…

Discord's back end is amazing and they've blogged about a lot of it over the years (https://hn.algolia.com?query=%22How%20Discord%22). Not as smooth sailing on the front end though, and unfortunately they threaten to ban accounts using alternative clients, though there have been several (https://hn.algolia.com?query=Discord%20client).

Discord is good enough for most users and since it was one of the first to fully leverage WebRTC in-browser for voice chat (without requiring an account), the network effect is almost impossible to overcome at this point. This is incredibly unfortunate as closed chat ecosystems are an information black hole (except possibly when user generated content is licensed to the highest bidder for LLM training, what a gold mine!)

PS. It's worth mentioning in any Discord discussion with the (though the usual "could get banned" caveat applies): it is possible to export from Discord using https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter

Re: 1M Users

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Post by sigseg1v »

pjc50 wrote: post #97
Mashimo wrote: post #95

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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.

I'm using a $6000 gaming rig I put together and Discord is one of the worst performing apps I use, so I'm with you on this one.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by mikeodds »

ciaran_lee wrote: post #111
WoodenChair wrote: post #90

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

That’s strong commitment to sticking with the original tech stack if it’s not just reskinned the error pages

Re: 1M Users

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Post by thelastparadise »

enumer8 wrote: post #42
meowtimemania wrote: post #20

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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…

Hey man, I'm getting started on the platform. Mind sharing your username?
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