Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta
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Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta
#2"The app itself is powered by Laravel, Vue.js, Socket.io, and Node"
Is there another Laravel other than the php one? Seems odd to roll out with both php and node.js. I don't know why you would need both.
Edit: Yes, I see each has it's strengths. But that has to drive a lot of doing the same thing twice, in two languages...they both interact with the same data. I would guess time-to-market is important at launch to react to things you missed. I would have settled on one or the other. Feels like premature optimization.
Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta
#3Anyone can create a forum; the question is why people would actually visit this one instead of the existing alternatives. "Real-time" features don't seem like that much of a draw and Reddit et al could easily implement them if they were.
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#4Does this require log in to browse as well? I'd imagine that anonymous read only viewing is larger percentage of the audience.
Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta
#5"The app itself is powered by Laravel, Vue.js, Socket.io, and Node" Is there another Laravel other than the php one? Seems odd to roll out with both php and node.js. I don't know why you would need both. Edit: Yes, I see each has it's strengths. But that has to drive a lot of doing the same thing twice, in two languages...they both interact with the same data. I would guess time-to-market is important at launch to re…
It seems like if it's real-time a lot of the page is dynamic applications you interact with through AJAX, and probably it was easier to do that and get acceptable performance in Node. The other functions (say, edit profile) could then be handled by Laravel more easily. At least that's what I'd guess.
Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta
#6"The app itself is powered by Laravel, Vue.js, Socket.io, and Node" Is there another Laravel other than the php one? Seems odd to roll out with both php and node.js. I don't know why you would need both. Edit: Yes, I see each has it's strengths. But that has to drive a lot of doing the same thing twice, in two languages...they both interact with the same data. I would guess time-to-market is important at launch to re…
I assume NodeJS is used just as a WebSocket server for their real-time events, doing that in PHP would be a bit uncomfortable.
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#7Does this require log in to browse as well? I'd imagine that anonymous read only viewing is larger percentage of the audience.
It does requite a login but the registration doesn't require email address and takes like 10 seconds
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#8Much as I hate Trump, I'm sick of the constant anti-Trump narrative specially since it's pushed by the same people that smeared Sanders. I hope we can get back to the pre-David Brock days.
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#9As with voat.co, who's gonna switch to this? Really the only people who switched over to Voat are the people who felt reddit was restricting their rights by posting controversial/hateful material on reddit. So it tends to be full of /pol-like MRAs/extreme right/alt-right users.
Voten seems like it's trying to implement a more democratic system, but who will be pushed into switching over to that?
Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta
#10"The app itself is powered by Laravel, Vue.js, Socket.io, and Node" Is there another Laravel other than the php one? Seems odd to roll out with both php and node.js. I don't know why you would need both. Edit: Yes, I see each has it's strengths. But that has to drive a lot of doing the same thing twice, in two languages...they both interact with the same data. I would guess time-to-market is important at launch to re…
Laravel 5.4 integrates with Vue. https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/frontend#writing-vue-components
Laravel can act as the API backend to the frontend (basically a set of REST endpoints that the frontend can talk to), or alternatively the Vue components are used only where heavy client-side interactions are required, while the rest of the pages are still served up by Laravel normally.