8 days. 8,000 forums • Hacker News Board

Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums

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Post by tipiirai » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 2:49 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #25

Very impressive. We have a startup ( http://microco.sm/ ) in this very space (hosted forums) and will be launching our alpha in the next two weeks. Our design rushes are pretty close to this (though we haven't updated the linked site in ages it feels) and we love that others are innovating in this space and feel that they've also spotted and validated a need for simpler, more engaging forums. I really like the look o…

Thank you! Welcome on board!

Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums

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Post by tipiirai » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 2:50 PM UTC

davidascher wrote: post #29

Impressive performance and clean design. /me interested. I don't understand the need to claim such a broad copyright license on content submitted. "When providing us with content or posting content on Moot’s site or related third-party sites, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right AND LICENSE to exercise any and all copyright, tradem…

It might be legally worthless but that's what we guarantee.

How would you improve it?

Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums

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Post by tipiirai » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 2:52 PM UTC

phrasemix wrote: post #22

I really like the fact that Moot seems to handle both forum-style posts and on-page comments. As the owner of a content site, I really want both. I've even gone so far as to try to hack Disqus to work as a forum. If there was an easy import feature for Disqus threads, I'd probably switch right over.

We are aware of this urgent need. You are not alone in this. And you can be sure this is exactly what we are working on.

Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums

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Post by pekk » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 2:52 PM UTC

davidascher wrote: post #29

Impressive performance and clean design. /me interested. I don't understand the need to claim such a broad copyright license on content submitted. "When providing us with content or posting content on Moot’s site or related third-party sites, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right AND LICENSE to exercise any and all copyright, tradem…

If you run a forum, on what legal basis are you allowed to continue using what user has posted? Doesn't this represent a continuous existential risk for a forum, that such rights will be claimed?

Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums

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Post by tipiirai » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 2:57 PM UTC

iampims wrote: post #35

We're experiencing problems and this post was not saved. Please copy the post to clipboard, reload and try again. Sorry, we're fixing this! Redis issue?

Yup. We're fixing this :) We still have some hiccups there since it's still beta.

Did you manage to post it again? Can you please describe us how this happened here

http://moot.it/issues

Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums

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Post by tipiirai » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 2:58 PM UTC

iampims wrote: post #35

We're experiencing problems and this post was not saved. Please copy the post to clipboard, reload and try again. Sorry, we're fixing this! Redis issue?

Not a redis issue. This is related to the connection between client & server.

Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums

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Post by film42 » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 3:01 PM UTC

Moot says they use JSON-RPC because a standard REST framework is not suitable.

Can anyone shed some light on how big of a performance boost JSON-RPC provides when dealing with things like notifications?

Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums

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Post by tipiirai » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 3:06 PM UTC

film42 wrote: post #38

Moot says they use JSON-RPC because a standard REST framework is not suitable. Can anyone shed some light on how big of a performance boost JSON-RPC provides when dealing with things like notifications?

JSON-RPC is not about performance. A RPC protocol just makes more sense for full-duplex communication where both sending and receiving end can send messages to each other at any time. REST is inherently a request / response pattern and is not designed to build these kinds of "real time" applications. It's about your system architecture. Better to use the right tools for the job.

Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums

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Post by alanctgardner2 » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 3:07 PM UTC

tipiirai wrote: post #28

DanBC wrote: post #27

Have you sorted out the legal issues with the name? Because I'd be wary about using something under a C&D with such a clear case.

Yes we have. Mr Poole "contacted" us: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20408037

I don't know much about Mr Poole's personal politics, but based on the nature of 4chan it seems pretty hypocritical of him to run to the legal system over someone using an English language word for their product name.

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