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Yeah no, I wish we don't go back to that. It doesn't scale at all.
by pratnala 5y ago
Yeah no, I wish we don't go back to that. It doesn't scale at all.
- coldtea 5y agoWho the fuck cares if it scales? It's better if it doesn't scale. Scale is what brought us Facebook and monopolies like Google.
- _jal 5y agoWhy does it need to? You are not Amazon. In the unlikely event you become Amazon, you will be able to rearchitect. Trust me, Amazon did.
- gary_0 5y agoNever worry too much about problems you want to have.
- Guest42 5y agoTrue, but I think the point was to be original and random and perhaps be popular as a result, rather than tailor everything for popularity.
- mdoms 5y agoNot everything needs to scale.
- emptybottle 5y agoHTML scales exceptionally well
- adamrezich 5y agonimforum*, which powers the official Nim forums, doesn't scale for shit, yet totally works for the scale of that community. not everything needs to massively scale, and, in fact, I think the mistaken belief that everything has to scale has led to many people being dissuaded from building smaller communities like back in The Old Days. * https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum
- ravenstine 5y agoLOL If anything, a more barebones internet scales better. The less data you're sending, the more connections you can handle simultaneously, and the less code you'll need. When communication is more decentralized, there's not much of a need for most sites to need to think that much about scaling. We don't need the next Facebook or the next Reddit. I'd love to go back to more independent forums. Maybe with something better than vBulletin, at least.