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Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

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Post by abiogenesis »

bostonsre wrote: post #40
harpratap wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why standardized solutions like K8s are necessary (or at least a managed container platform). Right now we have no idea about your stack or how it is hosted. With containers it wouldn't have mattered. And with K8s it would have been a simple `kubectl scale deploy/taaalk --replicas 10` regardless of on-prem, cloud X, Y or Z.

The guy has a single web app. Not sure using kubernetes would make it easier.

It's the future: https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

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Post by anateus »

ALittleLight wrote: post #10

I picked a conversation at random https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things This started off with a question about a background image, and the answer had a lot of detail opening up many threads of possible conversations. This seems like something that happens pretty regularly, but also something that the format of linear text isn't well suited for. This is a problem for both essays and conversations. The…

This immediately made me think of the C2 Wiki. It has a style similar to Taaalk in the sense that entries are often a mix of conversation and "exposition". It allows for that sort of linking by being a ("the") wiki. Perhaps that's a good model? A wiki where authors are visually marked as on Taaalk but otherwise all the accouterments of a wiki.

The not-quite-vaporware C2 followup implements some aspect of what you're describing via a sort of columnar layout.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

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Post by immy »

ALittleLight wrote: post #10

I picked a conversation at random https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things This started off with a question about a background image, and the answer had a lot of detail opening up many threads of possible conversations. This seems like something that happens pretty regularly, but also something that the format of linear text isn't well suited for. This is a problem for both essays and conversations. The…

Sounds like Branch (2012-2014(?))

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

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Post by satvikpendem »

sagark1992 wrote: post #9

Nice concept. I really liked your About in footer where you have thoughtfully explained your vision of the product. I also made a similar side project during quarantine: https://messagink.com/ I thought there should be a place to archive, discover create interesting conversations or create fictional conversations (text stories) since most app around this space don't let you and are too expensive.

Why do I have to continuously click to read it? Gets quite annoying after a few times. I like the model of Taaalk here where the entire conversation is already open.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

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Post by joepour »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #6

Looks cool. Suggestion: Require people to request discussions from others to sign up/comment/participate. You could gain big traction by getting big names to do conversations and likely monetize by having sponsored conversations. Major thing to avoid would be what happened to Quora where all the comments were gamed by people trying to resume pad. "Thank you for your question, the history of privacy goes back millenni…

I love this idea.

Allow people to generate a share link or add an email address and Taaalk can email and email inviting them to join the discussion.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

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Post by ALittleLight »

djsavvy wrote: post #49
ALittleLight wrote: post #10

I picked a conversation at random https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things This started off with a question about a background image, and the answer had a lot of detail opening up many threads of possible conversations. This seems like something that happens pretty regularly, but also something that the format of linear text isn't well suited for. This is a problem for both essays and conversations. The…

Sounds like Reddit or HN comment sections. Both form trees of comments, some of which end up becoming long chains.

The problem with comment chains is that they aren't focused on a specific point. Like essays or conversations they just cover many points in the order the authors want them to.

There is also not a way to pursue a single idea down a comment chain. The idea is merged in with everything else the comment is about and not really followed consistently.

Suppose I write an interesting essay about five central ideas. What I'm looking for a way to separate those ideas and allow the user to follow any one of them to some conclusion without having to read the explanations for all five.

Or, alternatively, if an idea gets lost or we simply don't want to discuss it, we could flag this idea as something that needs further work by other community members, who could come along and improve it.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

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Post by Alex3917 »

Out of curiosity, did you rebuild this from the ground up since the original version? I remember it looking very different before. I'm assuming that 5 years ago you were just custom formatting each conversation to make it look like a magazine article, and since then you got into web application development and automated that process.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

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Post by FailMore »

Alex3917 wrote: post #57

Out of curiosity, did you rebuild this from the ground up since the original version? I remember it looking very different before. I'm assuming that 5 years ago you were just custom formatting each conversation to make it look like a magazine article, and since then you got into web application development and automated that process.

Yep, there are some links to it on some of the earlier Taaalks. The first version was a completely static site, which we had to manually update after every message. I built this after learning to code at the end of last year

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

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Post by ALittleLight »

immy wrote: post #53
ALittleLight wrote: post #10

I picked a conversation at random https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things This started off with a question about a background image, and the answer had a lot of detail opening up many threads of possible conversations. This seems like something that happens pretty regularly, but also something that the format of linear text isn't well suited for. This is a problem for both essays and conversations. The…

Sounds like Branch (2012-2014(?))

Do you have a link? "Branch" is turning up a lot of unrelated results on Google.

Re: Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

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Post by sagark1992 »

FailMore wrote: post #48
sagark1992 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I like the idea that you converse and archive conversations there itself. Its great for real life conversations and maybe meaningful conversations. About the traction, getting users has been hard. I made some mistakes in the beginning, I targeted the wrong audience. I got wrong feedback from family, friends, co-workers etc. Then I started cold messaging readers and writers on other writing platforms. From the…

Want to have a Taaalk about running a side project? I have a few other side project people interested in a Taaalk like that.

Sure. I would love to.
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