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funny thing is the app has not changed in like 100 years. at this point it could probably be maintained by like a team of 5.
by whalesalad 3y ago
funny thing is the app has not changed in like 100 years. at this point it could probably be maintained by like a team of 5.
- dylan604 3y agoThat's what Musk thought about Twitt...er, X. How's that working out?
- RankingMember 3y agoPeople underestimate how many are holding things together/putting out fires behind the scenes until those people are gone and the seemingly-reliable app is now a smoking wreck.
- whalesalad 3y agotwitter is arguably more complex than grindr lol. hate to sound like a cliche but grindr could be recreated in a weekend with rails or django. pretty sure the app is a webview. it's truly stuck in 2012-2014. the hard part of that app is just the scale... but a handful of servers running elixir/erlang would handle it without breaking a sweat.
- slig 3y agoWhy work on a weekend? Just buy from here https://codecanyon.net/search/dating https://codecanyon.net/search/dating
- opprobium 3y agoMy guess is that handling bots, spam and abuse is one of the harder parts of the app at this point. It's a constant moving adversary that only gets worse the more popular your social app is, and not handling the problem can really drive users away.
- NickM 3y agothe hard part of that app is just the scale... but a handful of servers running elixir/erlang would handle it without breaking a sweat. Funny you should say that - I’m an Erlang dev and Grindr has tried to recruit me in the past. Apparently they already use it.
- paradox460 3y agoWonder if it's for their messaging stack, which probably has ejabberd buried inside
- rsynnott 3y agoWhy not go to https://status.twitter.com https://status.twitter.com to see? (Whoever was responsible for renewing the certs apparently got fired...)
- dylan604 3y agothat's hilarious. i was expecting something funny, but not utter fail