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what's so wrong about sprinkling some jquery on a static website (generated with hugo or jekyll)? On https://kubirds.com https://kubirds.com I use: jQuery app

by linkdd 4y ago

what's so wrong about sprinkling some jquery on a static website (generated with hugo or jekyll)? On https://kubirds.com https://kubirds.com I use: jQuery appear: https://plugins.jquery.com/appear/ https://plugins.jquery.com/appear/ jQuery fancybox: https://fancyapps.com/docs/ui/fancybox/ https://fancyapps.com/docs/ui/fancybox/ Do not put jQuery to the trash yet, it still have a long life ahead.

httpsterio 4y ago
It's pretty expensive to ship and compute. Wikipedia for example dropped jquery from their navigation and it resulted in a ~27% difference in battery usage IIRC.
influx 4y ago
I checked out kubirds, and even though I'm probably somewhat in your target demographic, I noticed that I couldn't discover what kubirds does without watching a video. Even scrolling down, and through the website, I didn't really understand it, until you compared to Nagios, which I am familiar with. Hope you don't mind a little unsolicited feedback. The website does look super clean! I would love to read a paragraph of your elevator pitch the moment I lay my eyes on the site though. Cheers.
- linkdd 4y ago
  Thank you a lot for the feedback! We'll definitely do something about it :)
  - retcon 4y ago
    It's only8 minutes since your responseso I'd just like to say that I almost immediately got the gist of your product before any changes. Long advertising experience means like a remedial English teacher I'm better than most reading poorer copy but I consider your(unchanged) copy very good. Unfortunately without the words"audit", "WORM" and"incident search" present or prominent I'm not your market. But I could think of many thousands of publication sites longing for your tool, if those terms applied.
    - linkdd 4y ago
      Thank you for the feedback as well :) > I'm better than most reading poorer copy but I consider your(unchanged) copy very good. This is nice to hear/read, yet I'm a perfectionist who knows perfection do not exist. The pitch can always be improved and clarity/transparency is very important to us. > Unfortunately without the words"audit", "WORM" and"incident search" present or prominent I'm not your market. This proves my previous point, since we rely on Docker images to implement the monitoring/reactivity part, literally ANY workflow/business logic can be applied (but we've been told that it's hard to trust "it can do everything"). > But I could think of many thousands of publication sites longing for your tool, if those terms applied. I'd love to get in touch with you about that, if you have time, you can find my contact info in my profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=linkdd https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=linkdd
ianleeclark 4y ago
> what's so wrong about sprinkling some jquery on a static website You're talking past one another. He's speaking in the context of AAA games, and the equivalent of that in the webdev world is a highly interactive application.
- bcrosby95 4y ago
  I don't see anyone saying to use jQuery for highly interactive applications. If that is the comparison, its not talking past eachother, the original comment is a strawman.
  - ianleeclark 4y ago
    > I don't see anyone saying to use jQuery for highly interactive applications. I don't know what to tell you. The first sentence in my comment was a quote and the rest of the comment was responding to say how that quote was misunderstanding the OP. I never said anyone specifically said to do that, but that, in the metaphor that the OP made, a static website isn't an accurate comparison to a AAA game.

by linkdd 4y ago

httpsterio 4y ago

It's pretty expensive to ship and compute. Wikipedia for example dropped jquery from their navigation and it resulted in a ~27% difference in battery usage IIRC.

influx 4y ago

I checked out kubirds, and even though I'm probably somewhat in your target demographic, I noticed that I couldn't discover what kubirds does without watching a video. Even scrolling down, and through the website, I didn't really understand it, until you compared to Nagios, which I am familiar with. Hope you don't mind a little unsolicited feedback. The website does look super clean! I would love to read a paragraph of your elevator pitch the moment I lay my eyes on the site though. Cheers.

linkdd 4y ago
Thank you a lot for the feedback! We'll definitely do something about it :)
- retcon 4y ago
  It's only8 minutes since your responseso I'd just like to say that I almost immediately got the gist of your product before any changes. Long advertising experience means like a remedial English teacher I'm better than most reading poorer copy but I consider your(unchanged) copy very good. Unfortunately without the words"audit", "WORM" and"incident search" present or prominent I'm not your market. But I could think of many thousands of publication sites longing for your tool, if those terms applied.
  - linkdd 4y ago
    Thank you for the feedback as well :) > I'm better than most reading poorer copy but I consider your(unchanged) copy very good. This is nice to hear/read, yet I'm a perfectionist who knows perfection do not exist. The pitch can always be improved and clarity/transparency is very important to us. > Unfortunately without the words"audit", "WORM" and"incident search" present or prominent I'm not your market. This proves my previous point, since we rely on Docker images to implement the monitoring/reactivity part, literally ANY workflow/business logic can be applied (but we've been told that it's hard to trust "it can do everything"). > But I could think of many thousands of publication sites longing for your tool, if those terms applied. I'd love to get in touch with you about that, if you have time, you can find my contact info in my profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=linkdd https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=linkdd

ianleeclark 4y ago

> what's so wrong about sprinkling some jquery on a static website You're talking past one another. He's speaking in the context of AAA games, and the equivalent of that in the webdev world is a highly interactive application.

bcrosby95 4y ago
I don't see anyone saying to use jQuery for highly interactive applications. If that is the comparison, its not talking past eachother, the original comment is a strawman.
- ianleeclark 4y ago
  > I don't see anyone saying to use jQuery for highly interactive applications. I don't know what to tell you. The first sentence in my comment was a quote and the rest of the comment was responding to say how that quote was misunderstanding the OP. I never said anyone specifically said to do that, but that, in the metaphor that the OP made, a static website isn't an accurate comparison to a AAA game.