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Post by sciencejerk »

Nifty3929 wrote: post #156
arcatech wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you see a group of people being critical, you can either see it as a “bummer”, or you can see it as people critically thinking about a thing. Is it really more useful to have everyone expressing how much they like something instead of identifying problems? Is seeing people talking about the things they don’t like something that makes you unhappy? Why?

The problem is that everything is negative, all the time. Nothing good is allowed to be acknowledged. Everything someone or some company does must not be acknowledged to have any redeeming value- it’s all just negative Which is sad, because so much amazing stuff is happening on the world right now, and seems to be only accelerating. For everybody.

Maybe AI slop has something to do with it?

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Post by mybbor »

I co-founded a page builder for WordPress. Myself and my co-founders would joke about the "friends and family" problem. When friends or family asked us to help build their website, we usually pointed them away from our tool+WordPress for something simpler. It's nice to see more options out there that reduce the friction from someone with an idea to something published and sharable.

Several weeks ago, I got frustrated hitting the free tier limits on Netlify, and was looking for a self-hosted solution for this problem. I built it using a DO VPS and Caddy in the backend. It's free on Github. I was able to get the whole thing set up in an hour or two with the help of an agent. Feel free to give it a spin.

https://github.com/RobbyMcCullough/honeydrop

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Post by jatins »

oh wow, a blast from the past. I remember a site called staticdrop or statichost like a decade ago, before vercel and everything that did the same thing

Good to see great ideas making a comeback

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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Post by arcatech »

Nifty3929 wrote: post #156
arcatech wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you see a group of people being critical, you can either see it as a “bummer”, or you can see it as people critically thinking about a thing. Is it really more useful to have everyone expressing how much they like something instead of identifying problems? Is seeing people talking about the things they don’t like something that makes you unhappy? Why?

The problem is that everything is negative, all the time. Nothing good is allowed to be acknowledged. Everything someone or some company does must not be acknowledged to have any redeeming value- it’s all just negative Which is sad, because so much amazing stuff is happening on the world right now, and seems to be only accelerating. For everybody.

> Nothing good is allowed to be acknowledged.

What makes you say this?

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#176

Post by asasidh »

hoppp wrote: post #76

I can see this interface is for vibe coders haha I have been hosting static websites with cloudflare for years and finding how to do it on the UI is getting harder as they add more things and reoranize.

exactly this. This is why i ended up moving to other platforms like vercel for random vibe coded projects than wrestle with cloudflare admin portal.

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Post by overtone1000 »

stackghost wrote: post #148
brookst wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To the curmudgeon, its techno-sycophancy to say the wheel is a pretty good thing. It’s just another take on shill / sheeple / etc. it gets old.

And to the sycophant, pointing out real and obvious drawbacks is being a curmudgeon.

In such situations, the golden mean is a useful lens.

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Post by puchatek »

Nifty3929 wrote: post #156
arcatech wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you see a group of people being critical, you can either see it as a “bummer”, or you can see it as people critically thinking about a thing. Is it really more useful to have everyone expressing how much they like something instead of identifying problems? Is seeing people talking about the things they don’t like something that makes you unhappy? Why?

The problem is that everything is negative, all the time. Nothing good is allowed to be acknowledged. Everything someone or some company does must not be acknowledged to have any redeeming value- it’s all just negative Which is sad, because so much amazing stuff is happening on the world right now, and seems to be only accelerating. For everybody.

Amazing stuff? You mean technical stuff right? Because politically, demographically and climate wise we're headed for disaster or at least dystopia.

I wished I could find all the science and technology as uplifting as my friends do.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#179

Post by sandcat_ »

arcatech wrote: post #104
jonluca wrote: post #42

Wow the people in this thread are a huge bummer. This is much cooler and I doubt this is a real safety issue. You can already sign up for a free cloudflare account and deploy it for free, on your own, on a free workers.dev domain. The friction removal here isn't going to meaningfully change the security / amount of malicious content.

When you see a group of people being critical, you can either see it as a “bummer”, or you can see it as people critically thinking about a thing. Is it really more useful to have everyone expressing how much they like something instead of identifying problems? Is seeing people talking about the things they don’t like something that makes you unhappy? Why?

It may not be critical thinking though, but simply being contrarian, which is one of the easiest ways to sound smart without necessarily providing much of value or substance. And strangely, seeing as it’s relatively rare IRL, seemingly the default on the internet. Blindly praising isn’t worth much either, but I doubt that’s what jonluca is encouraging. It’s possible to “yes, and” without resorting to either sycophancy or relentless negatively.
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