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Personal sites don't really need the kind of network stability we've come to expect. It would also be nice to see a move to more offline-tolerant networks for a
by NoGravitas 3y ago
Personal sites don't really need the kind of network stability we've come to expect. It would also be nice to see a move to more offline-tolerant networks for a lot of things.
- guessbest 3y agoYou know what is offline-tolerant? NNTP and email.
- phkahler 3y ago>> You know what is offline-tolerant? NNTP and email. Imagine a distributed social network where updates come via email. Updates are identified by the email client (or other) and automatically sent to whatever program needs to process them. You end up with a local copy of everyones stuff that is kept for a period of time.
- ianburrell 3y agoI have been working on idea for generic store-and-forward messaging. Basically, email for everything. The idea is that store-and-forward is more reliable when there are limited or no network. It would also work well for interplanetary communication. For some applictions, it is simple to fallback or use always and luckily the basics are included. Unfortunately, lots of applications won't work at all and many would have to be rewritten.
- rakoo 3y agoYou're probably aware of http://www.nncpgo.org/ http://www.nncpgo.org/ then
- vhcr 3y agoAlso good old RSS.
- lloydatkinson 3y agoRight, and now the site doesn't even load from the minor traffic from HN.
- hoosieree 3y agoThis is the kind of answer our industry needs more of. Chuck Moore would approve. Q: "How will it handle scaling to millions of users?" A: "By crashing. But it will handle 100s or maybe even 1000s, and you currently have 3, so chill."
- pier25 3y agoIt's not about scalability but about reliability. If your 3 users cannot read your blog then good luck getting to 10 users.
- rantallion 3y agoYour 3 users are probably okay with 99% uptime. No need to sweat over 5 9's for a hobbyist/personal site.
- hoosieree 3y agoFive nines, huh? We've got six eights over here!
- bombcar 3y agoIf your three friends cannot reach you 24/7 good luck getting to 10 friends. We need less reliable systems, not more.
- causality0 3y agoSo are you saying the mobile network you use is absolutely terrible and you have a signal less than 99% of the time, or are you saying that if a blog you read fails to load one out of a hundred times you visit you stop reading it?
- pier25 3y agoYeah my mobile network is less than 99% reliable. But there are other factors such as battery dying or just dropping the phone. I mean, that's why a mobile phone is being used, no? Because otherwise, a Raspberry Pi would suffice and would be cheaper and more reliable.