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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?
And of course this is the only platform applauding the site for its underlying infrastructure. :)
I'm curious what sort of infrastructure this runs on (hardware-wise), as I'd bet it's not some crazy highly-available complicated distributed system that is often glorified in tech companies and even on HN. If so, it would be a great example of "just go do it" rather than spending weeks and months over-engineering for scale that just isn't needed in 99% of cases.
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?
It's pretty easy to check if a page is a PHP page: just add a .php suffix, it'll work most of the time depending on where the files are placed in the web directory (also technically depending on how the site implements URL rewrite rules): * https://spacehey.com/index.php * https://spacehey.com/browse.php * https://spacehey.com/reset.php Here you can see that /help/ is a directory on the filesystem, as it appends a sl…
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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 full…
Unfortunately, personal account automation like this is also in the reasons for "could get banned". Sigh. I thought about building a scraper using something simplistic like Puppeteer to login to my account since the Discord browser experience is basically the same as the Discord app (which makes sense since its Electron). It would just issue a command to scroll arbitrarily up on a given channel/etc. until a certain e…
[0] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004027692-R...
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I did a quick check on the Online Users [0] via the Browse functionality and found there is a filter for online users. Currently it's 9:19 AM in the Netherlands. And there is about 7 pages filled with Online users. 45 users per page. About 7 pages filled with users [1]. So that's around 315 Online users in Europe during the day. My guess is that during US daytime numbers will be higher. Maybe someone in the US can do…
That's pretty active, assuming the system somehow pulls them all together in some way.
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?
He uses "vanilla PHP/HTML/MySQL": https://x.com/AnTheMaker/status/1530851239310802947
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…
It was a virtual hosting platform where you can insert scripts.
You really did miss out unfortunately, it was great.
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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'…
I have been addicted to ig. Still can be if I let myself. Reddit can also get me hard. Whatsapp groups I actually love because there's nothing to scroll. Just people lmk about an event and I can interact with them like a human, and I can go to the event. I get to know about things and I don't have to interact with meaningless content alongside it. I love it. What exactly is wrong with Whatsapp groups other than that…
Side note: the status page spacehey.com uses is one of those websites that'll do ANYTHING to get traffic. On the blog [0]: 6 Best Self-Hosted Status Pages 0. Instatus Instatus isn't self-hosted, but you can use it to get a quick & beautiful status page that's free forever. [0]: https://instatus.com/blog/best-self-hosted-status-pages Way to go to pollute search results when looking for a self-hosted status page.