I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me
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Re: I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me
#2I'll have to be honest here man, yeah no shit. I can't think of any good reason of why you would add something like this. A standard comment section is typically bad enough, and at least you're able to moderate that. An anonymous real-time chat embedded within your own blog? That's just asking for issues.
Re: I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me
#3The chat is still there in the corner of this post, with people typing nasty shit into it.
Well have fun delving into programmatic censorship I guess. Or just take it out. If you take the former path and post about trying to fix it here then I'm sure you'll get a lot more free testing of your attempts to enforce civility through regex or whatever. Enjoy learning about the Scunthorpe problem.
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#4Well, you've just painted a big target on your blog. This is the internet, after all.
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#5"Every input is hostile until proven otherwise": you said it yourself. One of those sad things that somebody new learns on the Internet every day.
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#6lol hate speech (fun speech lbh) drives traffic
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#7TL;DR: this is a toy example, so it doesn't require BEAM VM
Hard to take this seriously without the loadtest with the the large number of concurrent users.
For a number of users concurrently reading a long-tail blog post - you will get good results even using DotCom era HTTP polling.
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See:
Django LiveView vs Phoenix LiveView: a real benchmark
https://en.andros.dev/blog/80134668/django-liveview-vs-phoen...
Re: I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me
#8I'll have to be honest here man, yeah no shit. I can't think of any good reason of why you would add something like this. A standard comment section is typically bad enough, and at least you're able to moderate that. An anonymous real-time chat embedded within your own blog? That's just asking for issues.
My blog posts don't get any replies even when I post them on Hacker News, but everyone wants to communicate with others. I actually think anonymous chat isn't that bad. I think the problem is people who abuse the goodwill of writing. Once you step away from Medium and Substack, you start wondering how to even get comments on your own site.
Re: I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me
#9I'll have to be honest here man, yeah no shit. I can't think of any good reason of why you would add something like this. A standard comment section is typically bad enough, and at least you're able to moderate that. An anonymous real-time chat embedded within your own blog? That's just asking for issues.
Most people aren't awful in real life. Seems like a good idea to have a honey pot to just ban everyone in real time that tries to be an awful person on your own blog
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#10I was watching porn recently and the particular site I was on had recently added a real time chat widget too! Aside from scam bots trying to lure users off onto telegram, the last few messages were guys talking about Monty Python's The Life of Brian.